All 12 recount stations to focus on District Four

Georgetown: On Wednesday, the Guyana Elections Commission completed District Six with 84 boxes counted for the day while Districts 10 has almost ended, as such all 12 recount stations will be channeled to District Four which is the largest region.

At the current rate of the count, all the boxes should be completed by this Sunday. There are only 326 boxes of 2,339 left to process.

With just about 80 percent of ballot boxes tabulated the People’s Progressive Party/Civic leads the APNU+AFC Coalition by more than 18,000 votes at the General Elections.

According to the tabulation figures published by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) at the end of day 28 a total of 1,869 General Statements of Recount (SORs) and 1,858 Regional SORs have been recorded including the complete count for Districts One, Two, Three, Five, Seven, Eight and Nine.

These Statement of Recount (SORs) show a total of 162,557 votes for the incumbent APNU+AFC compared to 180,732 votes for the PPP/C. The six other parties which contested the General Elections have so far secured a combined total of 7,073 of the votes cast.