Akash Sama­roo

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has trig­gered re­counts in three con­stituen­cies. Ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) the UNC has asked for re­counts in the San Fer­nan­do East, Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca (for­mer­ly D’abadie/O’meara) and Arou­ca/Lopinot (for­mer­ly Lopinot/Bon Air West) seats.

The can­di­dates for the San Fer­nan­do East seat are Bri­an Man­ning (PNM), John Michael Al­i­bo­cas (UNC) and Ken­rick Serette (PF). Mean­while Mal­abar/Mau­si­ca was con­test­ed by Do­minic Ro­main (PNM), Do­minic Smith (UNC), and Ani­ta Han­key (PF). Arou­ca/Lopinot’s can­di­dates are Mar­vin Gon­za­les (PNM), Na­tal­ie Chaitain-Ma­haraj (UNC), Nicholas Lee (PF) and Nico­lene Tay­lor-Chin­chamee (NTA).

We un­der­stand the re­counts start­ed at 3 PM.

On­ly when those are com­plet­ed will the EBC re­lease its pre­lim­i­nary re­sults from yes­ter­day’s elec­tion which will in­clude the al­lo­ca­tion of seats to the UNC, PNM and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP). The over­all vot­er turnout is al­so ex­pect­ed to be in that doc­u­ment.

These re­counts would have had to have been re­quest­ed by the UNC by mid­day to­day.

Ear­ly re­sults last night re­port­ed­ly gave the UNC 27 seats, 2 for the TPP and 12 for the PNM.