Jamaica's Local Government Elections: Final Results Are In!

Friends, please accept my apologies for the delay in bringing you these results...

The final results of Jamaica's Local Government Elections, held on December 5,2007, are in!

Of the 14 Parishes, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won 9 parishes to the People' National Party's (PNP's) 4 parishes, with a tie of eight (8) seats each, in the Parish of St. Ann.

Girl With a Purpose(GWAP) Blog wishes our heart-felt congratulations to the JLP!

(Please see this link  to our previous post on December 5, 2007, for a short background on Jamaica's Local Government Elections.)

Please see the following table for the JLP and PNP Seat Count and percentage wins, by Parish:

JLP & PNP SEAT COUNT AND
PERCENTAGE WINS, BY PARISH
PARISHES	JLP Seats	PNP Seats	JLP Seat %age	PNP Seat %age
Kingston and St. Andrew	23	17	58%	43%
St. Ann	8	8	50%	50%
St. Thomas	8	2	80%	20%
Portland	7	2	78%	22%
St. Mary	10	3	77%	23%
Trelawny	7	2	78%	22%
St. James	13	4	76%	24%
Hanover	2	5	29%	71%
Westmoreland	0	14	0%	100%
St. Elizabeth	8	7	53%	47%
Manchester	6	9	40%	60%
Clarendon	17	5	77%	23%
St. Catherine	23	17	58%	43%

Please click on this link to view the winning Councillors by Pollling Division and Parish, and the percentages, they've won by.  (There are 227 Polling Divisions spread across the 14 Parishes in Jamaica.)

When you have opened the link, just go to the section entitled, "View Results by Parish",found to the middle left hand-side of the page. Then choose the Parish you're interested in and then click on the "View Parish Results" button, to get these results.

Gillian

Sources Include:

1) Jamaica Gleaner's Local Government Elections website