Ken Ali

The Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship (PP) is like­ly to have 96 coun­cil­lors through­out Trinidad, ac­cord­ing to a pre­lim­i­nary re­port of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) won 72 elec­toral dis­tricts, the ini­tial re­port stat­ed, with Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) se­cur­ing 24 seats. The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) cap­tured 37 lo­cal gov­ern­ment con­stituen­cies, the EBC re­port in­di­cat­ed.�PP is rep­re­sent­ed in all 14 cor­po­ra­tions and would lead 11, in­clud­ing the mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties of San Fer­nan­do, Ari­ma and Ch­agua­nas.

PNM has been shut out of four cor­po­ra­tions–Ma­yaro-Rio Claro, Cou­va-Tabaquite-Tal­paro, Princes Town and Pe­nal-Debe. Apart from win­ning those four cor­po­ra­tions, PP lost one seat each in San­gre Grande, Ch­agua­nas and Ari­ma.�An­oth­er em­phat­ic vic­to­ry took place at the Tu­na­puna-Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, the lo­cal gov­ern­ment in­sti­tu­tion with the largest ge­o­graph­ic reach.

PP cap­tured 12 of the 15 seats, with six each go­ing to UNC and COP.�PNM's most con­vinc­ing vic­to­ry was in Port-of-Spain, where the par­ty won ten elec­toral dis­tricts, con­fin­ing the COP to two seats. At Point Fortin, PNM won five of the six elec­toral dis­tricts. The re­sults were a sharp re­ver­sal of those of 2003, in which PNM romped home vic­to­ri­ous in nine cor­po­ra­tions, rel­e­gat­ing the UNC to run five.