Winning 49 seats in the preliminary count, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was returned to office in today’s general election with a landslide victory, as the People’s National Party (PNP) only managed to garner 14 seats of the 63.
With Jamaica now practically all green, it was a shocking defeat for the PNP, which saw a surprising upset for several of its top stalwarts and popular names. Among them: Peter Bunting in Manchester Central, Wykeham McNeill in Westmoreland Western, Luther Buchanan in Westmoreland Eastern, Fenton Ferguson in St Thomas Eastern, Dayton Campbell in St Ann North Western, Colin Fagan in St Catherine South Eastern. Richard Azan in Clarendon North Western, Horace Dalley in Clarendon Northern, Ian Hayles in Hanover Western, Imani Duncan-Price in Kingston Central, Dwayne Vaz in Westmoreland Central, Shane Alexis in St Mary South East, Victor Wright in Trelawny Northern, Andre Haughton in St James West Central, Basil Waite in St Elizabeth North Eastern, Walton Small in St James Southern, Krystal Tomlinson in St Andrew West Rural, and Wavell Hinds in Hanover Eastern.
At 10:40 pm, the JLP won 406,764 of the popular votes, while the PNP won 305,157. A total of 1,161 votes went to independent candidates and third parties.
The Electoral Office of Jamaica said the overall voter turnout was approximately 37 per cent, compared to 48.37 per cent in the 2016 General Election.
Tomorrow, each returning officer will commence the final count of all the ballots for his/her constituency at a designated counting centre.
low voter turnout benefits the JLP it appears! will “Mr cancerous” take a page out of the US democrats book and strongly advocate for mail in ballots this upcoming election? :ngakak
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A win is a win, people have choices to vote or not. If Uno wanted KFC Uno would a go join line if uno a get money from foreign Uno stand in long lines a western union though. Some a Uno too bias. The PNP one Dem too lazy, bout PNP country Uno think people figet that comment. Serve them right
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And here is where the haters will come out ..them clearly nuh see this post yet. I have noticed when dem come here. Them promote and badmind on here till dem tired.
Congrats to Andrew but lets see if is the same kind of uptown government him a come wid fi the next five years, lets see how you help the small man, the hustler , the people weh covid a starve right now, and dah big pussy deh up deh suh weh a talk bout haters, we noh hate nobady a performance we a deal wid fool you think bad mind can buy food