Rhon­da Krys­tal Ram­bal­ly

The pre­lim­i­nary re­sults from the gen­er­al elec­tion have re­vealed that 69.45 per cent of the elec­torate ex­er­cised their fran­chise on Mon­day. The num­ber of reg­is­tered vot­ers was 1,040,127. Chief elec­tions of­fi­cer of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) Howard Cayenne said the num­ber of peo­ple who cast their bal­lots was 722,322. The Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship (PP) which emerged vic­to­ri­ous re­ceived 432,026 votes which ac­count­ed for 59.81 per cent of the elec­torate.

The PP won the elec­tion by a land­slide, hav­ing copped 29 of the 41 seats. Of the 722,322 vot­ers, 308,541 peo­ple vot­ed for the UNC, which was 42.7 per cent of the elec­torate. The COP re­ceived 15 per cent of the to­tal, which meant 108,143 vot­ers while 15,342 went to the TOP, 1,998 for the New Na­tion­al Vi­sion and 349 for oth­er. There were 2,595 re­ject­ed bal­lots. In the 2007 gen­er­al elec­tion, the COP re­ceived some 148,000 votes, while 194,425 went to the UNC.

On Mon­day, the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment se­cured 285,354 which was 39.5 per cent of the votes, cop­ping 12 seats. In the pre­vi­ous elec­tion, the PNM amassed 299,813 votes. A re­view of the to­tal num­ber of votes cast showed the high­est num­ber of elec­tors was in the Cou­va North con­stituen­cy, while the low­est was in Port-of-Spain South. The num­ber of elec­tors was 21,386 and 13,029, re­spec­tive­ly. How­ev­er, the high­est per­cent­age of votes cast was 78.99 per cent in Ch­agua­nas West, with 20,313 votes cast out of 25,715. The low­est per­cent­age was in Laven­tille West with 51.25 per cent and 13,494 vot­ers out of 26,330.

Diego Mar­tin West had the high­est num­ber of reg­is­tered vot­ers�28,366 and To­ba­go East the least with 20,424. When com­bined, the two To­ba­go seats to­talled 44,098 with 27,878 elec­tors ex­er­cis­ing their fran­chise. The PNM won the Arou­ca/Mal­oney seat with high­est num­ber of votes out of its 12 seats�11,476, while the PP copped Ch­agua­nas West with 18,767 votes. The COP re­ceived its high­est votes in the St Au­gus­tine con­stituen­cy with 15,166 votes. For­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning won his San Fer­nan­do East seat with 9,736 votes. There were 22,812 reg­is­tered vot­ers in that con­stituen­cy. The COP's Car­ol Cuffy-Dowlat was de­feat­ed, hav­ing rec­ceived 6,109 votes.