1999 Barbadian general election
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28 seats in the House of Assembly 15 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 63.36% ( 2.47pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Barbados on 20 January 1999.[1] The result was a landslide victory for the Barbados Labour Party led by Owen Arthur, which won 26 of the 28 seats.[2] The opposition Democratic Labour Party led by David Thompson, only won two seats. Voter turnout was 63.4%.[1]
At the time, this was the largest margin of victory since universal suffrage was introduced in 1951.[1] This record would be broken in 2018, when the BLP won all 30 seats in the House of Assembly.
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Barbados Labour Party | 83,445 | 64.87 | 26 | +7 | |
| Democratic Labour Party | 45,118 | 35.08 | 2 | –6 | |
| Independents | 67 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 128,630 | 100.00 | 28 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 128,630 | 99.37 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 820 | 0.63 | |||
| Total votes | 129,450 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 204,307 | 63.36 | |||
| Source: Nohlen | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p90 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ^ "Barbados: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 1999". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
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