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| Registered | 440,185 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 91.72% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Guyana on 19 March 2001. [1] The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party/Civic, which won 34 of the 65 seats. Voter turnout was 91.7%. [1]
Under the new electoral law adopted in February 2001, [2] the 65 members of the National Assembly were elected by closed list proportional representation in two groups; 25 members were elected from the 10 electoral districts based on the regions, and 40 elected from a single nationwide constituency. Seats were allocated using the Hare quota. [3] The pre-2001 arrangement under which 10 seats appointed by the Regional Councils and 2 by the National Congress of Local Democratic Organs (an umbrella body representing the regional councils) [4] was abolished, and thus the entire National Assembly was elected by direct popular vote for the first time since 1973.
The President was elected by a first-past-the-post double simultaneous vote system, whereby each list nominated a presidential candidate and the presidential election itself was won by the candidate of the list having a plurality. [4] [3]
| Party | Presidential candidate | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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| Constituency | Top-up | Total | +/– | ||||||
| People's Progressive Party/Civic | Bharrat Jagdeo | 210,013 | 52.96 | 12 | 22 | 34 | +5 | ||
| People's National Congress/Reform | Desmond Hoyte | 165,866 | 41.83 | 12 | 15 | 27 | +5 | ||
| Guyana Action Party–Working People's Alliance | Paul Hardy | 9,451 | 2.38 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | ||
| Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana | Ravi Dev | 3,695 | 0.93 | 0 | 1 | 1 | New | ||
| The United Force | Manzoor Nadir | 2,904 | 0.73 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Justice for All Party | Chandra N. Sharma | 2,825 | 0.71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Guyana Democratic Party | Asgar Ally | 1,345 | 0.34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| National Front Alliance | Keith Scott | 417 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Total | 396,516 | 100.00 | 25 | 40 | 65 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 396,516 | 98.21 | |||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 7,218 | 1.79 | |||||||
| Total votes | 403,734 | 100.00 | |||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 440,185 | 91.72 | |||||||
| Source: Psephos, Election Passport, Carter Center | |||||||||
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