A recently passed amendment to the Local (Authorities) Elections Act is about to be operationalised as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) moves to resolve several ties in the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) component of the recently held local government elections.
According to Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, there have been ties in constituencies in the Hague/Blankenburg Local Authority Area (LAA), in Soesdyke/Huis’t Coverden and one of the constituencies that comprise the Kwakwani LAA.
Specifically, the election in Constituency 2 in the Hague/Blankenburg LAA saw an equal number of electors casting votes in favour of Joseph Boucher, of APNU, and Joseph Gurahoo, of the PPP/C; in Constituency 7 of Soesdyke/Huis’t Coverden, APNU’S Cledwin Williams and the PPP/C’s Raghunandan Singh also managed to secure the same number of votes; and voters in Constituency 4 of Kwakwani equally favoured the AFC’s Natasha Mohamed and Petranella Pollard of Kwakwani United For Progress (KUFP).
