JLP Triumphs in Local Government Election
On Monday (November 28), The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) triumphed in the local Government elections taking eight of the island’s 13 parish councils.
And the results represent the second major win for the JLP at the polls in nine months, having won the general election on February 25.
Preliminary results from the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) show the JLP now controlling the following parish councils: Portland, Clarendon, St Elizabeth, St James, St Mary, Trelawny and Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation.
The People’s National Party (PNP) controls councils in Westmoreland, Manchester, and Hanover.
Ties were reported for the parishes of St Thomas and St Catherine.
Of the 1,849,012 persons on the voters’ list, 549,503 cast their ballots during the election.
Following the vote tally, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who also heads the JLP stated that the victory “can almost be seen as a referendum on our performance for the last nine months, and Jamaica is saying, you have performed”.
“The real work starts tomorrow, after this victory, to serve you and serve Jamaica,” he also stated.
The Prime Minister was speaking in front of a massive crowd at the JLP’s Belmont Road headquarters in Kingston.
JLP HQ victory party via Facebook:
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