Con­gress of the Peo­ple MP for Tu­na­puna Win­ston Dook­er­an says the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship land­slide vic­to­ry at the polls was five years in the mak­ing.He was speak­ing at his cam­paign of­fice in Tu­na­puna mo­ments af­ter he beat the PNM's Es­ther Le Gen­dre. "No, not five years, eight years, it has been in the mak­ing for eight years," Dook­er­an's sup­port­ers shout­ed. While try­ing to calm the crowd around him at his Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy of­fice, Dook­er­an ex­pressed grat­i­tude to all those who sup­port­ed him, even those from the PNM.

"All those who worked so hard and have ded­i­cat­ed the last five years to achiev­ing this great vic­to­ry say thank you," he said. "To sup­port­ers of the PNM who have over­whelm­ing­ly placed their trust in me, I say thank you," Dook­er­an added. He said the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship was man­dat­ed by the peo­ple to bring good gov­er­nance to the coun­try. "This evening you have ac­cept­ed our case for Gov­ern­ment," he said.