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KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Dec 10 2015 – The ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) won an unprecedented fourth consecutive general election here on Wednesday winning by the same slender one seat margin as it did in the 2010 poll.
The ULP, led by Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, won eight of the 15 seats according to the preliminary results released here on Wednesday night. The main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) won the remaining seven seats.
The results meant that for a fourth consecutive occasion, NDP leader Arnhim Eustace, who lost the government to Gonsalves in 2001, has been unable to reverse the trend.
Gonsalves, who was also seeking an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in power, easily retained his North Central Windward seat, polling 2,998 votes as against 743 for Kenroy Johnson of the NDP. Haran Grant, the candidate of the Democratic Republican Party (DRP) received just 17 votes.
Eustace retained his East Kingstown seat, polling 2,443 votes to defeat the ULP’s Luke Brown, who received 2,298 votes and Kariam Paris, 13 votes.
Foreign Affairs Minister Camillo Gonsalves, the son of the ULP leader, who contested the East St. George seat as a new comer, defeated NDP chairman Linton Lewis, the former Windward Islands cricketer by a margin of 3, 124 to 2, 521 votes in a four way fight. (CMC)
