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Barbuda: Trevor Walker: Barbuda People's Movement: 21 March 2018 St. Peter: Rawdon Turner: Labour: 15 January 2025 All Saints West: Anthony Smith: Independent: 18 January 2023 None: Osbert Frederick: None: 18 November 2024
The Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission was established on 3 December 2001, after the Commonwealth Observer Group recommended the creation of an independent electoral commission. The inaugural chairman was McClin Mathias.
News Pages Antigua, founded in the 2000s [2] Carib Arena, founded in the 2000s, short-lived [2] Antigua Sun and Sun Weekend, founded in 1997 by Allen Stanford; Caribbean Times, in Antigua and Barbuda, ceased to publish in January 2018. [2] [5] (There is a newspaper also called Caribbean Times that is published in New York City.)
The Electoral Commission reported that ABLP won 9 seats in the election, while the UPP won 6 seats in total. [36] [37] In Barbuda, BPM retained its seat while DNA did not win any, although Asot Michael, an independent politician, won his seat in the St. Peter constituency. [36] Lovell of UPP also failed to win his seat. [38]
After the establishment of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission in 2001, the country began to return to democracy after nearly about half a century of Bird family rule, excluding a brief period in the 1970s when the family was removed from political power for five years. [1]
A hunger strike was held, and on 3 December 2001 the independent Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission was established. [6] The state-controlled media was also liberalised in the early 2000s, [ 7 ] and after Antigua and Barbuda briefly being one of the most developed countries in the eastern Caribbean, quality of life once again fell, and ...
The Commission was set up in 2001 and the ALP's second period of dominance ended with defeat by the United Progressive Party in the 2004 elections. The UPP won a second term in office in 2009. However, in the 2014 general election, the Antigua Labour Party won 14 of 17 seats, while the ruling UPP won the other three seats.
Antigua Labour Party (former) Sherfield Bowen is an Antiguan United Progressive Party politician, who was elected as Member of Parliament for St. Philip's South in the election held on 18 January 2023.