The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has con­firmed that the out­come of the Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca seat in the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion re­mains large­ly un­changed fol­low­ing a re­count re­quest­ed by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Fol­low­ing the re­count, Do­minic Ro­main of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) main­tained his lead with 7,691 votes. His clos­est ri­val, the UNC’s Do­minic Smith, se­cured 7,437 votes. The Pa­tri­ot­ic Front re­ceived 834 votes, and there were 45 re­ject­ed bal­lots.

The re­count was prompt­ed by the UNC’s for­mal re­quest for gen­er­al re­counts and poll card ver­i­fi­ca­tions in three con­stituen­cies. 

Ac­cord­ing to the EBC, “The de­tailed pre­lim­i­nary re­sults… re­main large­ly un­changed,” de­spite the re­count.

Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca was for­mer­ly called D'Abadie O'Meara, pre­vi­ous­ly held by the late Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian.

Fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment, Smith con­ced­ed de­feat and thanked sup­port­ers for what he called a trans­for­ma­tion­al cam­paign.

“To­day, the fi­nal num­bers came in, and while we did not se­cure the seat for Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca, I stand be­fore you with my head held high, heart full, and spir­it un­shak­en,” he told con­stituents.

He de­scribed the cam­paign as “a move­ment to reimag­ine what lead­er­ship can look like in our com­mu­ni­ties,” point­ing out that his team closed a gap of more than 6,000 votes.

“To the peo­ple of Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca, thank you… for see­ing me not as a politi­cian, but as your neigh­bour, your broth­er, your son,” Smith said. “This isn’t the end of my ser­vice, it’s just the be­gin­ning. I will con­tin­ue to walk with you, build with you, and fight for the fu­ture we all de­serve.”