2001 Vincentian general election

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2001 Vincentian general election
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg
  1998 28 March 2001 2005  

15 of 23 seats in the House of Assembly
8 seats needed for a majority
Turnout69.20% (Increase2.svg 1.84pp)
 First partySecond party
  Ralph Gonsalves.jpg Arnhim Eustace (cropped).jpg
Leader Ralph Gonsalves Arnhim Eustace
Party Unity Labour New Democratic
Last election7 seats8 seats
Seats won123
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 5Decrease2.svg 5
Popular vote32,92523,844
Percentage56.49%40.91%
SwingIncrease2.svg 1.89ppDecrease2.svg 4.40pp

2001 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines general election - Results by constituency.svg
Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Arnhim Eustace
New Democratic

Elected Prime Minister

Ralph Gonsalves
Unity Labour

General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 28 March 2001. [1] The Unity Labour Party (ULP), which had won the popular vote in the 1998 elections but lost to the New Democratic Party (NDP), this time won a landslide victory, taking 12 of the 15 seats, ending seventeen years of an NDP government. The NDP retained only three of its eight seats inclusive of the two Grenadines seats which had voted for the party's former leader, Sir James Mitchell, in every general election since 1966.

With his ULP having won every election that followed, Gonsalves became the country's longest continuously-serving head of government in 2017, surpassing the previous record-holder, James Mitchell who had served continuously for 16 years and 2 months.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Unity Labour Party 32,92556.4912+5
New Democratic Party 23,84440.913–5
People's Progressive Movement1,5152.600New
Total58,284100.00150
Valid votes58,28499.63
Invalid/blank votes2140.37
Total votes58,498100.00
Registered voters/turnout84,53669.20
Source: Electoral Office

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p600 ISBN   978-0-19-928357-6