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In the 1961 General Elections the PNM won 20 of 30 seats with 58% of the vote. With the collapse of the West Indian Federation, the PNM led Trinidad and Tobago to independence on 31 August 1962. In the 1966 General Elections the PNM won 24 of 36 seats, with 52% of the vote. However, economic and social discontent grew under PNM rule.
A total of 127 candidates contested the election for 17 different political parties, with another five running as independents. The PNM was the only party to contest all 41 seats, and only two other parties contested more than half the seats; the United National Congress ran in 28 and the ILP in 26.
A NACTA poll shortly after the election date was announced, found that, as in most previous elections, only PNM and UNC would play a role. [64] An HHB poll published July 25 in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian found the ruling PNM at 53% and the UNC at 44%. [65] A NACTA poll from July 25, however, saw the UNC one percentage point ahead. [66]
The 2020 United National Congress leadership election was held on Sunday, 6 December 2020, [1] after Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the current leader of the UNC, faced losses commencing in January 2013 with the wipeout of her People's Partnership-led administration from the Tobago House of Assembly at the 2013 election, loss in the 2015 Trinidad and Tobago general election and loss ...
The date of the general elections was announced by Prime Minister Patrick Manning on April 16, 2010, via a press release. The election was called over two years earlier than required by law. [1] Polls showing that the UNC-led opposition coalition was likely to win the election were confirmed by the subsequent results. [2]
Early general elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 6 November 1995, [1] after the ruling People's National Movement had seen its majority reduced to a single seat due to a defection and a lost by-election. [2] The results saw the PNM and the United National Congress both win 17 seats.
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 5 November 2007. [1] Nomination day was 15 October. Five parties contested the elections; the ruling People's National Movement, the official opposition United National Congress–Alliance (a coalition of the UNC and six smaller parties), the Congress of the People, the Tobago United Front–Democratic Action Congress (a Tobago-based party ...
In the 1995 general election, the UNC won 17 of 36 seats and formed a coalition government with the NAR which won 2 seats. In exchange for his support, NAR Political Leader A. N. R. Robinson was first appointed Minister Extraordinaire and then elected President in 1997. Two PNM MPs defected and supported the UNC as independent members.