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The PLP dominated national politics until the 1990s, winning every election until 1992 when they were defeated by the Free National Movement (FNM) formed after a split within the PLP in 1971. [6] The FNM won the next elections in 1997 in which voter turnout hit a record 98.5%, [ 7 ] but power was ceded back to the PLP in 2002 . [ 8 ]
An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, [1] a central [2] or state election commission, [3] or an election board, [4] an electoral council [5] or an electoral court. [6]
1729 Bahamian general election; 1833 Bahamian general election; 1935 Bahamian general election; 1949 Bahamian general election; 1956 Bahamian general election; 1962 Bahamian general election; 1967 Bahamian general election; 1968 Bahamian general election; 1972 Bahamian general election; 1977 Bahamian general election; 1982 Bahamian general election
The Bahamas House of Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of The Bahamas, an island country in the Carribbean. The Assembly currently has 39 single-member constituencies and uses the Westminster first past the post system. The Members of Parliament (MPs) serve 5-year-terms. [1] [2] The last election was in 2021.
4-5 May – 2024 World Athletics Relays at Nassau [2] 4 December – Clayton Fernander resigns as commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force amid an investigation by the United States into the force's involvement in drug trafficking. [3]
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After Whitfield's death in 1990, another ex-PLP, Hubert Ingraham, became leader of the FNM and took the party to victory in the 1992 general election. The FNM was re-elected by a landslide in 1997, but lost to a resurgent PLP, under the leadership of his former law partner Perry Christie , in 2002.
It is an indication of the level of Pindling's popularity in the Bahamas at the time that, despite the scandalous claims made against him in the US media, he never felt the need to resign or call an early election. Even with the commission's report fresh in voters' minds, he led his party to another election victory in 1987.