Georgetown: A Partnership for National Unity projected won five of the 10 municipalities, while the opposition collected the other five with slim wins in Mabaruma and Lethem.
APNU won in Georgetown, Linden, Bartica, Mahdia and New Amsterdam. The opposition People’s Progressive Party will hold on to those it has held over the years- Corriverton, Rose Hall and Anna Regina, while picking up Mabaruma and Lethem. For Lethem the PPP reportedly won five of the 10 seats with four going to APNU and one to the AFC. Political observers say this is a virtual tie as the AFC’s candidate will likely support APNU at the council.
Mabaruma
In the Municipality of Mabaruma, Region
One in the Proportional Representation component of the Local Government
Elections, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) took the lead with 584
votes followed by APNU with 408 votes and the AFC with 51 votes.
However, Guyana Chronicle was unable at the time to determine the winning
candidates for the First-Past-The-Post Component of the Elections.
Essequibo
In the Proportional Representation Component for the Evergreen-Paradise Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) won five seats on the council of 16 after securing 909 votes. The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) secured three (3) seats on the council after raking in 540 votes. The United Republic Party only pulled 20 votes, and as such, did not secure any seats under this component for Evergreen-Paradise.
Georgetown
In the City of Georgetown, APNU maintain a strong presence on the council. Based
on statements of polls posted at polling places, Deputy Mayor Akeem Peter lead the
way in Constituency Five. Voters’ confidence in Mayor Patricia Chase-Green was
expressly known in Constituency 12, where she is leading in the First-Past-the
Post Component of the Local Government Elections.
Mahaica- Berbice
With 8 out of 10 Local
Authority Area (LAAs) areas in Region Five (Mahaica – Berbice) tallied, the A
Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is thus far in the lead by a less than
100-vote gap.
Coming close behind was the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) with some 5826
votes.
The scores according to the LAAs are as follows: Woodlands/Bel Air – PPP 401,
APNU 283; Hamlet/Chance – APNU 465, PPP 7; Profit/Rising Sun – APNU 987, PPP
215; Blairmont/Gelderland – PPP 1349, APNU 285, AFC 93; Mahaicony/Abary –
PPP1279, APNU 662; Seafield/Tempie – APNU 881, PPP 409; Union/Naarstigheid –
APNU 1509, PPP 1390, AFC 267; Woodlands/Farm – APNU 828, PPP 776;
Rose Hall
In the Municipality of Rose Hall on East Berbice, Corentyne, the PPP/C
according to preliminary results has won six (6) of the eight (8)
constituencies.
The numbers show a 46 per cent voters’ turnout in the Township or 1951 of the
approximately 4,200 voters registered. The PPP/C based on statements of poll
copped 1203 of the votes while APNU only raked in 721 and the URP 23 votes.
Bartica
The Municipality of Bartica APNU copped 12 of the 18 seats while the PPP
secured five (5) and the AFC one (1). In the Proportional Representation
Component of the Elections, the APNU in Bartica secured five (5) seats while
for the First-Past-The-Post Component, it raked it seven (7) additional votes.
In the case of the PPP, it secured three (3) seats in the Proportional
Representation Component and another two seats in the First-Past-The-Post
Component. The AFC secured its single seat in the Proportional Representation
aspect of the elections.
Mahdia
Recently declared Town of Mahdia, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)
won six seats on the Council of 8 under the Proportional Representation
Component of the elections after securing 253 votes. The Alliance for Change
(AFC) and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) both won one seat each
after securing 86 and 91 votes respectively.
Lethem
In the Municipality of Lethem, in Constituency One, APNU’s Youlanda Richmond-
Moffett got 117; People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C)’s John Fredericks
secured 83 votes and the Alliance for Change (AFC)’s candidate, Ryan Alcides
got 40 votes. Richmond-Moffett won in that Constituency.
Linden
In the First-Past-The-Post Component for the Municipality of Linden , A
Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Stephen Massiah won a seat on the council
of 16 after raking in 289 votes in Constituency No. 2 (Retrieve/Kara Kara).
In Constituency No. 3 – Central Mackenzie, APNU Leroy Anthony James secured 185 votes, thereby winning a seat on the council. Constituency No. 4 – Washer Pond to Siberien – was won by APNU Wainewright Bethune who copped 209 votes.
Preliminary results for the other constituencies under the First-Past-The-Post Component for Linden were still being tabulated by GECOM up to press time. The situation was the same for the Proportional Representation Component for that Local Authority Area (LAA) – a known stronghold for the APNU.
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