Jensen La Vende

De­spite the claim that the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship re­ceived the pop­u­lar vote, sta­tis­tics from Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) state it was the win­ning par­ty the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment which re­ceived that prize.

Dur­ing her con­ces­sion speech on elec­tion night for­mer prime min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship, which com­pris­es the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP), To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple (TOP) and the Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee (NJAC), won the pop­u­lar vote.

But ac­cord­ing to the EBC yes­ter­day of the 1,099,279 el­i­gi­ble vot­ers, 734,792 vot­ed which rep­re­sent­ed 66.84 per cent of the el­i­gi­ble vot­ers.

Of those who vot­ed 2,452 bal­lots had to be re­ject­ed. The PNM got a to­tal of 378,447 votes to take 51.68 per cent of the vot­ers. The run­ner-up, the UNC, got 290,066 votes or 39.61 per cent. The Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship re­ceived a to­tal of 46.65 per cent of the votes.

In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty (ILP) won 5,123 votes while the COP won 6.01 per cent or 43,991 votes.

PNM can­di­date for Arou­ca/Mal­oney Camile Robin­son-Reg­is won the most votes over­all with 14,843 out of 18,200 valid votes cast.

The high­est num­ber of el­i­gi­ble vot­ers came from the con­stituen­cy of Moru­ga/Table­land with 21,132 valid votes. That seat was won by PNM's Dr Lovell Fran­cis.

Of the lead­ers of the two ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties, UNC and PNM, Per­sad-Bisses­sar won 14,896 votes of the 19,651 valid votes while Dr Kei­th Row­ley won 12,855 of the 16,907 valid votes.