2000 Caymanian general election

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General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 8 November 2000. The elections saw the ruling National Team under Truman Bodden suffer a heavy defeat, with Bodden losing his seat. Following the elections, Kurt Tibbetts of the Democratic Alliance was elected as the Leader of Government Business.

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Campaign

Caymananian elections were traditionally contested on a non-partisan basis, with candidates running as independents and or in groupings known as teams. In the August 1991 a grouping known as the Progressive Democratic Party emerged, and constituted the first substantive Cayman political organisation since the 1960s. The party renamed itself as the National Team, and won power in the 1992 elections.

Major issues in the election campaign included the Islands' constitutional status, immigration, housing, and environmental protection. [1]

Results

John McLean, Agriculture Minister, lost his seat to his cousin, Arden McLean. [1]

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Democratic Alliance and independents12–
National Team3–6
Total150
Total votes9,344–
Registered voters/turnout11,60480.52
Source: Elections Office

By district

DistrictCandidateVotes %
Bodden TownRoy Bodden1,00862.96
Gilbert Allan McLean78849.22
Anthony Eden75947.41
Mary J. Lawrence65841.10
Joseph Ebanks45028.11
Osbourne Bodden44027.48
Heather Dianne Bodden27917.43
Arnold Thomas Berry23214.49
Anthony Scott18511.56
Charles Wesley Watler1358.43
Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Julianna O'Connor-Connolly 59076.62
Lyndon Leathan Martin32442.08
Audley U. Scott22629.35
George Eldemire20426.49
Maxine Avon Moore-Mccoy354.55
Rupert Kelvin Thompson303.90
East End Arden McLean 20037.11
John Bonwell McLean Sr.17532.47
Kenross Diaz Conolly16430.43
George Town Kurt Tibbetts 2,75380.97
Alden McLaughlin 2,05760.50
Frank Swarres McField1,69049.71
Linford Ainsworth Pierson1,50644.29
Lucille Dell Seymour1,45042.65
Truman Murray Bodden91726.97
Berna Thompson Cummins78823.18
Bridget McPartland55416.29
Melba M. Nixon3149.24
A. Steve McField2978.74
Jefford Robert Bodden1143.35
Craig Anthony Brown782.29
Florence Goring-Nozza521.53
Rodney Robert Ebanks361.06
North SideEdna Moyle24953.32
Denison Ezzard Miller21846.68
West Bay McKeeva Bush 1,46256.95
Rolston Anglin1,03040.12
Eugene Ebanks92936.19
Cline Glidden78930.74
Bernie Bush74228.91
Tara Rivers67126.14
Thomas Jefferson 53921.00
Leonard Ebanks53320.76
Sterling Dwayn Ebanks44917.49
Mario E. Ebanks35413.79
Mitchell Ebanks30411.84
Arden B. Parsons30311.80
Billy Ebanks30011.69
John Dwight Jefferson28611.14
Frank Banks27710.79
James Cyril Parsons Jr.2047.95
Ina Claire Orr1957.60
Clarence Bothwell1546.00
Alice Mae Coe1385.38
Daphne Ackermon-Orrett1295.03
Waldo Hilton Parchment1244.83
Cadian Ebanks160.62

Aftermath

The United Democratic Party (UDP) was formed in November 2001, and would oust Tibbetts as Leader of Government Business that month in a vote of 9 to 5. Tibbett's would be replaced as Leader of Government Business by McKeeva Bush of the UDP. Tibbett's was elected as leader of the new opposition party, the People's Progressive Movement, in May 2002. The party would go on to win the 2005 general election. [2]

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  2. ↑ A Political and Economic Dictionary of Latin America. Psychology Press. 2004. p. 70. ISBN   9781135355692.
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