T&T elections body: Voter turnout 34%, UNC wins popular vote

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UNC supporters celebrate Local Government Election results at the UNC’s Multipurpose Hall in Couva, Monday night.
UNC supporters celebrate Local Government Election results at the UNC’s Multipurpose Hall in Couva, Monday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) says the vot­er turnout in Mon­day’s Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions was 34.49 per cent of the vot­ing pop­u­la­tion.

This rep­re­sents a mi­nor in­crease over the turnout in the 2016 Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions, which was 34.34 per cent.

In a state­ment is­sued Tues­day night, the EBC said that of an elec­torate of 1,079,976 in the 139 elec­toral dis­tricts in Trinidad, to­tal votes cast were 372,503.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress re­ceived the pop­u­lar vote with 202,584 votes or 54.38% of the to­tal votes cast.

The break­down of votes by po­lit­i­cal par­ty is as fol­lows:

UNC: 202,584 (54.38%)

PNM: 161,962 (43.48%)

MSJ: 2,635 (0.71%)

PPM: 1,314 (0.35%)

COP: 972 (0.26%)

MND: 404 (0.11%)

NTP: 11 (0.003%)