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General elections were held in the Bahamas on 16 September 2021 to elect all 38 members of the House of Assembly. [1]Around two hours after the polls closed, and results started to trickle in, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis conceded defeat, after results showed his party Free National Movement losing several seats they previously held.
Elections in the Bahamas take place in the framework of a parliamentary democracy. Since independence, voter turnout has been generally high in national elections, with a low of 87.9% in 1987 and a high of 98.5% in 1997. The current Prime Minister is The Hon. Philip Davis. The electorate is less than half of citizenry. [why?]
In the 2021 election, the Progressive Liberal Party of then opposition leader Philip Davis won a landslide victory against the incumbent Free National Movement led by then Prime Minister Hubert Minnis, securing 32 seats and 52.59% of the popular vote.
The prime minister is formally appointed into office by the Governor-General of the Bahamas, who represents Charles III, the King of the Bahamas (the Bahamian head of state). The following article contains a list of prime ministers of the Bahamas , from the establishment of the position of chief minister of the Bahamas Islands in 1955 to the ...
The Bahamas was an early supporter of the candidature of Indian diplomat Kamalesh Sharma for Commonwealth Secretary-General. Bahamian Foreign Minister Frederick Mitchell stated that Sharma gave a lot of support to small island developing states like The Bahamas. [5] Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Nassau in October 1985 to attend the CHOGM ...
The Office of Prime Minister Philip Davis said that even though Wilchcombe, who was known simply as “Obie” and also served as leader of government business in the House of Assembly, had ...
Philip Edward "Brave" Davis KC MP (born 7 June 1951) [2] is a Bahamian politician serving as the prime minister of the Bahamas since 2021. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cat Island, Rum Cay & San Salvador from 1992 to 1997 and returned to the seat in May 2002, which he still represents.
This is a list of the next general elections around the world in sovereign states. The general elections listed are for the government of each jurisdiction. These elections determine the prime minister and makeup of the legislature in a parliamentary democracy, or the president and then the legislature in a system where separate votes are taken for different tiers of government.