1996 Montserratian general election

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1996 Montserratian general election
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  1991 11 November 1996 2001  

All 7 seats in the Legislative Assembly
4 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Leader John Osborne Bertrand Osborne Reuben Meade
Party PPA MNR NPP
Leader's seatNorthwesternSouthernCentral
Last election4 seats, 42.7%
Seats won221
Seat changeNewNewDecrease2.svg 3
Popular vote1,472930809
Percentage35.0%22.1%19.2%
SwingIncrease2.svg 35.0%Increase2.svg 22.1%Decrease2.svg 23.5%

Chief Minister before election

Reuben Meade
NPP

Subsequent Chief Minister

Bertrand Osborne
MNR

General elections were held in Montserrat on 11 November 1996. [1] The result was a hung parliament, with no party holding more than two seats. Although the People's Progressive Alliance received the largest number of votes, Bertrand Osborne of the Movement for National Reconstruction became Chief Minister after forming a coalition government with the National Progressive Party (which had been the ruling party between 1991 and 1996) and an independent MP.

Contents

Campaign

A total of 26 candidates contested the elections. [1] All three parties nominated seven candidates, with five independents also running. [1]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Progressive Alliance 1,47235.382New
Movement for National Reconstruction 93022.352New
National Progressive Party 80919.441–3
Independents95022.832+1
Total4,161100.0070
Valid votes4,16198.93
Invalid/blank votes451.07
Total votes4,206100.00
Registered voters/turnout7,23858.11
Source: Caribbean Elections, Barrow-Giles & Joseph [2]

By constituency

Central Constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Progressive Party Reuben Meade 29246.4-
Charlesworth Phillip20232.0-
John Wilson619.7-
Johnny Dublin619.7-
Richard Payne81.3-
Eastern Constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Movement for National Reconstruction Adelina Tuitt 18954.9-
Joel Webbe11934.6-
James Lee246.9-
Nowell Tuitt113.2-
Northern Constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Rupert Weekes 25257.8-
John Ponteen18241.7-
Theo Bramble20.5-
Northwestern Constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
People's Progressive Alliance John Osborne 37953.9-
Charles Kirnon22231.6-
Jim Bass8912.7-
George Tuitt131.8-
Plymouth Constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
People's Progressive Alliance Brunelle Meade 37234.4-
Movement for National Reconstruction [4] P. Austin Bramble35432.7-
Vereen Thomas Woolcock12611.7-
Lazelle Howes11610.7-
Chedmond Browne938.6-
Southern Constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Movement for National Reconstruction Bertrand Osborne 23750.9-
Idabelle Griffith-Meade19341.4-
Justin Casell367.7-
Windward Constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent David Brandt 39174.1-
Beatrice Fenton10720.3-
Joseph Meade254.8-
J.R. Osborne40.8-

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References

  1. 1 2 3 General Election Results - 11 November 1996 Caribbean Elections
  2. Cynthia Barrow-Giles & Tennyson S D Joseph (2006) General elections & voting in the English-Speaking Caribbean 1992-2005, Ian Randall Publishers, p73
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