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As largely expected, the Brexit Party failed to win any seats in the general election. [7] Among its results the best were in Barnsley Central, where Victoria Felton came second with 30.4% of the vote; [8] Hartlepool, where party chairman Richard Tice came third with 25.8% of the vote; [9] and Hull West and Hessle, where businesswoman and media ...
Marginal seats by party (with winning parties and margins from the 2016 Jamaican general election) Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) People's National Party (PNP) Marginal 1 Saint Mary South Eastern [a 1] 0.02% 1 Saint Catherine North Eastern: 0.53% 2 Saint James Southern: 0.24% 2 Saint Andrew Eastern: 0.62% 3 Saint Ann North Western: 1.18% 3
The two parties were founded in 1938 and 1943 and first contested the 1944 election. Though the years are fixed due to the five-year term of the prime minister, the date of the election is traditionally announced by the ruling party one month in advance.
One political commentator described the poll as "the closest election Jamaica has ever had". [1] The JLP's share of the vote was the lowest for a winning party since 1962, when the JLP won 50.1% of the vote, and its resulting majority in the House of Representatives was the narrowest since the 1949 elections. A similarly close election occurred ...
Labour, who had been in government before the election, won 258 seats, while the Liberal Democrats, with 57 seats, were the third-largest party. [13] With no single party having won enough seats to form a majority government, the country had its first hung parliament since 1974. [ 14 ]
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Following the passing of the sitting MP, Winston Green on 17 August 2017, Norman Alexander Dunn was the Jamaica Labour Party candidate in the hotly contested by-election which took place on 31 October 2017. [3] Dunn was declared winner of the seat- defeating Shane Alexis of the People's National Party. Dunn received 8,176 votes to defeat Alexis ...
The party was founded on 8 July 1943 by Alexander Bustamante as the political wing of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union. Bustamante had previously been a member of the PNP. It won the 1944 general elections with 22 of the 32 seats. [20] It went on to win the 1949 elections with a reduced majority. The PNP received more votes (203,048) than ...