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2001 Vincentian general election

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2001 Vincentian general election

← 1998 28 March 2001 2005 →

15 seats in the House of Assembly
8 seats needed for a majority
Turnout69.20% (Increase 1.84pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Ralph Gonsalves Arnhim Eustace
Party Unity Labour New Democratic
Last election 7 seats 8 seats
Seats won 12 3
Seat change Increase 5 Decrease 5
Popular vote 32,925 23,844
Percentage 56.49% 40.91%
Swing Increase 1.89pp Decrease 4.40pp

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Arnhim Eustace
New Democratic

Elected Prime Minister

Ralph Gonsalves
Unity Labour

General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 28 March 2001.[1] The Unity Labour Party (ULP), which had won the popular vote in the 1998 elections but lost to the New Democratic Party (NDP), this time won a landslide victory, taking 12 of the 15 seats, ending seventeen years of an NDP government. The NDP retained only three of its eight seats inclusive of the two Grenadines seats which had voted for the party's former leader, Sir James Mitchell, in every general election since 1966.

With his ULP having won every election that followed, Gonsalves became the country's longest continuously-serving head of government in 2017, surpassing the previous record-holder, James Mitchell who had served continuously for 16 years and 2 months.

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Unity Labour Party32,92556.4912+5
New Democratic Party23,84440.913–5
People's Progressive Movement1,5152.600New
Total58,284100.00150
Valid votes58,28499.63
Invalid/blank votes2140.37
Total votes58,498100.00
Registered voters/turnout84,53669.20
Source: Nohlen

References

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  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p600 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6