Gregory Mair Wins North East St. Catherine Seat

Please read this post for a background to the following:

Today, was the day for the slated By-Election for the North East St.Catherine constituency in Jamaica.

The two gentlemen contesting this seat were the JLP's Gregory Mair and the PNP's Granville Valentine.

However, this by-election was low-keyed in comparison to the West-Portland by election won by Daryl Vaz in March...so much so that the Prime Minister is presently in Geneva, at the ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis, due to his commitment to make a presentation at this Summit..

According to Nationwide Radio:

The Electoral Office reports that 10,041 voters (representing 53% of voters in the constituency) turned out today, in comparison to 61.4% in the 2007 General Election.

6,374 votes went to the JLP's Mr. Gregory Mair, whilst 3,667 votes went to newcomer to politics, and the PNP's representative, Mr. Granville Valentine.

Hence Mr. Mair got 63% of the votes and Mr. Valentine got 36% of the votes.

What this means is that Mr. Mair continues to be the Member of Parliament for this constituency.

Hence the seat count in our 60-member Parliament is now:

JLP: 32 seats

PNP: 28 seats.

What's interesting about this by-election is that the JLP's victory increased from 54% in 2007 to 63% today, whilst the PNP's share of vote decreased from 46% in 2007 to 37% today.

Girl With a Purpose (GWAP) Blog congratulates Mr. Mair on his victory today.

Gillian

Source:

Nationwide Radio's "Cover Story", June 16, 2009