The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) have each se­cured one seat in the up­com­ing Ju­ly 26 lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion. Two can­di­dates have won their seats as de­clared by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) yes­ter­day.

Kat­ty Ann Christo­pher, the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for Covi­gne/Rich P lain and Anil Bal­li­ram, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­date for Freeport/Cal­cut­ta were de­clared elect­ed by the re­turn­ing of­fi­cer for their dis­tricts since the oth­er can­di­dates con­test­ing those seats failed to com­plete the nom­i­na­tion process. Nom­i­na­tion Day was on Mon­day.

The PNM is con­test­ing 133 seats, the UNC 83 and the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) 57. The EBC said it re­ceived 282 valid nom­i­na­tions for the 134 elec­toral dis­tricts. The re­lease said the COP can­di­date for Covi­gne/Rich Plain, who was uniden­ti­fied, pre­sent­ed the nom­i­na­tion pa­per be­fore the re­quired time but one of the statu­to­ry de­c­la­ra­tions was not signed.

"The can­di­date left to have the mat­ter cor­rect­ed but did not re­turn in time," the EBC stat­ed. Bal­li­ram au­to­mat­i­cal­ly won his seat be­cause the oth­er can­di­date's nom­i­na­tion pa­pers were de­clared in­valid since he did not have the re­quired num­ber of pro­posers.