2000 Caymanian general election

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.

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]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Democratic Alliance and independents			12	–
	National Team			3	–6
Total				15	0
Total votes		9,344	–
Registered voters/turnout		11,604	80.52
Source: Elections Office

By district

District	Candidate	Votes	%
Bodden Town	Roy Bodden	1,008	62.96
	Gilbert Allan McLean	788	49.22
	Anthony Eden	759	47.41
	Mary J. Lawrence	658	41.10
	Joseph Ebanks	450	28.11
	Osbourne Bodden	440	27.48
	Heather Dianne Bodden	279	17.43
	Arnold Thomas Berry	232	14.49
	Anthony Scott	185	11.56
	Charles Wesley Watler	135	8.43
Cayman Brac and Little Cayman	Julianna O'Connor-Connolly	590	76.62
	Lyndon Leathan Martin	324	42.08
	Audley U. Scott	226	29.35
	George Eldemire	204	26.49
	Maxine Avon Moore-Mccoy	35	4.55
	Rupert Kelvin Thompson	30	3.90
East End	Arden McLean	200	37.11
	John Bonwell McLean Sr.	175	32.47
	Kenross Diaz Conolly	164	30.43
George Town	Kurt Tibbetts	2,753	80.97
	Alden McLaughlin	2,057	60.50
	Frank Swarres McField	1,690	49.71
	Linford Ainsworth Pierson	1,506	44.29
	Lucille Dell Seymour	1,450	42.65
	Truman Murray Bodden	917	26.97
	Berna Thompson Cummins	788	23.18
	Bridget McPartland	554	16.29
	Melba M. Nixon	314	9.24
	A. Steve McField	297	8.74
	Jefford Robert Bodden	114	3.35
	Craig Anthony Brown	78	2.29
	Florence Goring-Nozza	52	1.53
	Rodney Robert Ebanks	36	1.06
North Side	Edna Moyle	249	53.32
	Denison Ezzard Miller	218	46.68
West Bay	McKeeva Bush	1,462	56.95
	Rolston Anglin	1,030	40.12
	Eugene Ebanks	929	36.19
	Cline Glidden	789	30.74
	Bernie Bush	742	28.91
	Tara Rivers	671	26.14
	Thomas Jefferson	539	21.00
	Leonard Ebanks	533	20.76
	Sterling Dwayn Ebanks	449	17.49
	Mario E. Ebanks	354	13.79
	Mitchell Ebanks	304	11.84
	Arden B. Parsons	303	11.80
	Billy Ebanks	300	11.69
	John Dwight Jefferson	286	11.14
	Frank Banks	277	10.79
	James Cyril Parsons Jr.	204	7.95
	Ina Claire Orr	195	7.60
	Clarence Bothwell	154	6.00
	Alice Mae Coe	138	5.38
	Daphne Ackermon-Orrett	129	5.03
	Waldo Hilton Parchment	124	4.83
	Cadian Ebanks	16	0.62

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]

References

1. South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002. Psychology Press. 2002. p. 217. ISBN   9781857431216.
2. A Political and Economic Dictionary of Latin America. Psychology Press. 2004. p. 70. ISBN   9781135355692.