2020 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election

2020 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election

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11 of the 15 seats in the National Assembly 6 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Shawn Richards Mark Brantley Party PAM CCM Alliance Team Unity Team Unity Leader since 2012 29 October 2017 Leader's seat St Christopher #5 Nevis #9 Last election 27.90%, 4 seats 13.04%, 2 seats Seats won 4 3 Seat change 1 Popular vote 8,067 3,510 Percentage 29.00% 12.62% Swing 1.10pp 0.42pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Denzil Douglas Timothy Harris Party SKNLP PLP Alliance None Team Unity Leader since 1989 17 June 2013 Leader's seat St Christopher #6 St Christopher #7 Last election 39.27%, 3 seats 8.99%, 1 seat Seats won 2 2 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 10,316 3,681 Percentage 37.09% 13.23% Swing 2.18pp 4.24pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election Timothy Harris PLP Elected Prime Minister Timothy Harris PLP

General elections were held in Saint Kitts and Nevis on Friday 5 June 2020. ^[1]

The ruling Team Unity coalition consisting of the People's Action Movement, Concerned Citizens' Movement and People's Labour Party won a landslide victory with nine of the eleven directly elected seats with a combined 55% of the vote. ^[2] As had happened in the previous elections in 2015, the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party received the most votes but did not win the most seats. The Nevis Reformation Party lost their only seat in Nevis, the first time in the party's history that they had failed to secure representation in the National Assembly in a general election.

Electoral system

Eleven of the fifteen seats in the National Assembly are elected, with three other members appointed by the Governor-General at some point after the elections and one seat held by the Attorney-General. ^[3] The eleven elected seats are elected in single-member constituencies using plurality voting. ^[4]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party	10,316	37.09	2	–1
	People's Action Movement	8,067	29.00	4	0
	People's Labour Party	3,681	13.23	2	+1
	Concerned Citizens' Movement	3,510	12.62	3	+1
	Nevis Reformation Party	2,232	8.02	0	–1
	Independents	11	0.04	0	0
Appointed members				4	0
Total		27,817	100.00	15	0
Valid votes		27,817	99.23
Invalid/blank votes		215	0.77
Total votes		28,032	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		48,076	58.31
Source: Winn FM

Elected MPs

Constituency	MPs	Party
St Christopher #1	Geoffrey Hanley		Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party
St Christopher #2	Jonel Powell		People's Action Movement
St Christopher #3	Akilah Byron-Nisbett		People's Labour Party
St Christopher #4	Lindsay Grant		People's Action Movement
St Christopher #5	Shawn Richards		People's Action Movement
St Christopher #6	Denzil Douglas		Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party
St Christopher #7	Timothy Harris		People's Labour Party
St Christopher #8	Eugene Hamilton		People's Action Movement
Nevis #9	Mark Brantley		Concerned Citizens' Movement
Nevis #10	Eric Evelyn		Concerned Citizens' Movement
Nevis #11	Alexis Jeffers		Concerned Citizens' Movement
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References

1. PM Names June 5 as Election Day St Kitts & Nevis Observer, 18 May 2020
2. Election 2020 – Landslide victory for Team Unity in St Kitts and Nevis WIC News
3. Team Unity declared official winners of St Kitts Election Archived 2015-02-20 at the Wayback Machine The Daily Observer, 17 February 2015
4. Electoral system IPU

External links

• Saint Kitts and Nevis on the Political Database of the Americas
• Adam Carr's Election Archive