The Dominica Labor Party (DLP), led by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, won a landslide victory in Friday’s election.
The DLP won 18 out of the 21 constituencies that were up for grabs in the election.
The United Workers Party, led by Lennox Linton, won three seats.
“The elections are over now. The UWP failed to delay them, they failed to cause chaos in our society and they have failed in the ballot boxes,” Skerrit said in a national address Friday night.
“I call to the UWP and its supporters to hold their conduct and behavior of the last few weeks, concede the election and work for peace.”
Dominica’s polling centers opened their doors earlier on Friday to over 70,000 people who cast their votes in the general elections ,which decided the new government that will rule for the next five years.
Dominica, a former French and British colony of about 75,000 residents, held the general elections amid tensions, with the UWP was pushing Skerrit to enact reforms.
