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19 seats in the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 24 May 2017. [1] They were the first elections held after electoral reforms approved in a 2012 referendum, which introduced single member constituencies.
The People's Progressive Movement remained the largest party, winning seven of the 19 seats. However, independents emerged as the largest group in the Legislative Assembly with nine seats. [2]
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
People's Progressive Movement | 4,909 | 31.23 | 7 | –2 | |
Cayman Democratic Party | 3,786 | 24.08 | 3 | 0 | |
Independents | 7,026 | 44.69 | 9 | +7 | |
Total | 15,721 | 100.00 | 19 | +1 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 21,228 | – | |||
Source: Elections Office |
Constituency | Candidate | Party | Votes |
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West Bay North | Bernie Bush | Cayman Democratic Party | 436 |
Mervin Smith | Independent | 269 | |
Sarah Orrett-ebanks | Independent | 99 | |
West Bay West | William McKeeva Bush | Cayman Democratic Party | 605 |
Paul Desmond Rivers | Independent | 176 | |
Daphne Louise Orrett | People's Progressive Movement | 68 | |
West Bay Central | Eugene Ebanks, Capt. | Cayman Democratic Party | 435 |
Katherine Ebanks-Wilks | Independent | 342 | |
West Bay South | Tara Rivers | Independent | 534 |
John Jefferson, Jr. | Cayman Democratic Party | 350 | |
Burns Rankin | Independent | 56 | |
Laura Young | Independent | 52 | |
George Town North | Joseph Hew | People's Progressive Movement | 402 |
Pearlina McGaw-Lumsden | Cayman Democratic Party | 268 | |
Karin M. Thompson | Independent | 117 | |
George Town West | David Charles Wight | People's Progressive Movement | 350 |
Jonathan Bardowell Piercy | Cayman Democratic Party | 334 | |
Ellio Anthony Solomon | Independent | 93 | |
Dennie Warren, Jr. | Independent | 80 | |
George Town Central | Kenneth Vernon Bryan | Independent | 495 |
Marco Archer | People's Progressive Movement | 460 | |
George Town South | Barbara Elizabeth Conolly | People's Progressive Movement | 375 |
Michael Thomas Adam | Cayman Democratic Party | 307 | |
Alric Jeremy Lindsay | Independent | 90 | |
Catherine Rosita Tyson | Independent | 78 | |
Paul Wendell Hurlston | Independent | 72 | |
George Town East | Roy Michael McTaggart | People's Progressive Movement | 410 |
Theresa Elizabeth Bodden | Cayman Democratic Party | 193 | |
Sharon Elaine Roulstone | Independent | 192 | |
Kenrick Herbert Webster, Dr. | Independent | 106 | |
Red Bay | Alden McLaughlin | People's Progressive Movement | 478 |
Denniston Leitch Tibbetts | Cayman Democratic Party | 274 | |
Frank McField | Independent | 92 | |
Prospect | Austin Harris, Jr. | Independent | 466 |
Lucille Seymour | People's Progressive Movement | 329 | |
Matthew Leslie | Independent | 58 | |
Savannah | Anthony Eden | Independent | 446 |
Heather Bodden | People's Progressive Movement | 357 | |
Kent McTaggart | Independent | 164 | |
Newlands | Alva Horatio Suckoo, Jr. | Independent | 433 |
Gurney Wayne Panton | People's Progressive Movement | 418 | |
Raul Gonzalez, Jr. | Independent | 156 | |
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Bodden Town West | Christopher Selvin Saunders | Independent | 380 |
Maxine Bodden-Robinson | People's Progressive Movement | 306 | |
Stafford Berry | Cayman Democratic Party | 217 | |
Gilbert Allan McLean | Independent | 187 | |
Bodden Town East | Dwayne Stanley Seymour | Independent | 427 |
Robert Anthony Bodden | Cayman Democratic Party | 367 | |
Osbourne Vendryes Bodden | People's Progressive Movement | 290 | |
Arnold Thomas Berry | Independent | 41 | |
North Side | Ezzard Miller | Cayman Islands People's Alliance | 201 |
Johany Ebanks | Independent | 179 | |
Edward Owen Chisholm | People's Progressive Movement | 139 | |
Justin Ebanks | Independent | 75 | |
East End | V. Arden McLean | Independent | 272 |
Issac Rankine | Independent | 246 | |
John B. McLean, Jr. | Independent | 74 | |
Cayman Brac West & Little Cayman | Moses Kirkconnell, III | People's Progressive Movement | 302 |
Maxine Avon Moore | Independent | 95 | |
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Cayman Brac East | Juliana O'connor-Connolly | People's Progressive Movement | 225 |
Rudolph Lenbergh Dixon | Independent | 183 |
Initially, a coalition government between the Progressives, Cayman Democratic Party members and independents was announced. Under the arrangement, Alden McLaughlin would have remained as premier and McKeeva Bush would have become speaker. [3] However, an agreement was later reached between the Cayman Democratic Party and all independent members apart from one to form a “government of national unity” in which McKeeva Bush will take office as Premier. In response, Alden McLaughlin suggested the incoming government would be a "train wreck" and that he did not "expect this government to last very long". [4]
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