1993 Falkland Islands general election

1993 Falkland Islands general election

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All 8 members to the Legislative Council
Majority party   Party Nonpartisan Seats won 8

The Falkland Islands general election of 1993 was held on Thursday 14 October 1993 to elect members to the Legislative Council. Eight Councillors were elected through universal suffrage using block voting, four from each constituency (Camp and Stanley).

It was the last election in which Desire the Right Party, one of the only political parties in the history of the Falkland Islands, fielded candidates.

Results

Candidates in bold were elected. Candidates in italic were incumbents.

Camp constituency

Camp result [1]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Nonpartisan	Bill Luxton	228	23.0	−1.4
	Nonpartisan	Eric Goss	144	14.5	−0.1
	Nonpartisan	Norma Edwards	136	13.7	−6.4
	Nonpartisan	Richard Stevens	135	13.6	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Tony Blake	100	10.1	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Neil Watson	99	10.0	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Kevin Kilmartin	90	9.1	−6.3
	Nonpartisan	Ron Binnie	59	6.0	−11.2
Turnout			991

Stanley constituency

Stanley result [1]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Nonpartisan	Charles Keenleyside	456	17.4	N/A
	Nonpartisan	John Cheek	356	13.6	+4.1
	Nonpartisan	Wendy Teggart	245	9.4	+1.8
	Nonpartisan	Sharon Halford	214	8.2	N/A
	Nonpartisan	John Birmingham	208	8.0	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Terry Betts	182	7.0	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Laurie Butler	140	5.4	N/A
	Desire the Right	Mike Rendell	139	5.3	+0.8
	Nonpartisan	John Pollard	130	5.0	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Ben Claxton	125	4.8	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Gerard Robson	96	3.7	−8.6
	Nonpartisan	John Halford	89	3.4	−3.4
	Nonpartisan	Terry Peck	79	3.0	−14.9
	Nonpartisan	Dave Eynon	61	2.3	−0.4
	Nonpartisan	Steve Vincent	47	1.8	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Alex Smith	33	1.3	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Jennifer Jones	14	0.5	N/A
Turnout			2614

References

1. "Penguin News". Jane Cameron National Archives. 16 October 1993.