Pre­lim­i­nary re­sults from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, held on Mon­day, April 28, show the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) won with a com­mand­ing to­tal of 334,874 votes and se­cured 26 of the 41 par­lia­men­tary seats, ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).

The to­tal num­ber of votes cast was 617,712, rep­re­sent­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 54 per cent turnout from the reg­is­tered elec­torate of 1,153,850 vot­ers across 41 con­stituen­cies.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) fol­lowed with 220,160 votes, win­ning 13 seats, while the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) se­cured 13,857 votes and claimed 2 seats. The Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) al­so made a no­table show­ing, earn­ing 9,379 votes, al­though it did not win any seats.

Oth­er par­ties and in­de­pen­dent can­di­dates gar­nered small­er shares of the vote:

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF): 21,010

Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP): 6,481

Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA): 5,932

Peo­ple's De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP): 1,443

MND: 560

IDA: 143

APP: 718

New Na­tion­al Vi­sion (NNV): 268

New Cit­i­zens' Trans­for­ma­tion (NCT): 53

Hu­man­i­ty Move­ment (HM): 24

Caribbean Move­ment (CARM): 22

THC: 105

Un­rep­re­sent­ed Peo­ple (UP): 220

In­de­pen­dent can­di­dates re­ceived the fol­low­ing votes:

E. Singh: 47

V. John­son: 470

L. George: 38

There were al­so 1,908 re­ject­ed bal­lots.

De­spite the ap­par­ent vic­to­ry, the UNC has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed gen­er­al re­counts — in­clud­ing a re­view of poll cards — in three close­ly con­test­ed con­stituen­cies: Arou­ca/Lopinot, Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca, and San Fer­nan­do East. The re­counts be­gan at 3:00 p.m. to­day.

The EBC em­pha­sised that the re­sults re­main pro­vi­sion­al un­til the re­counts are com­plet­ed and the fi­nal cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process is con­clud­ed.