PPP/C leads APNU+AFC by 13,050 with 84% of boxes tabulated

Table showing tabulated results for the March 2 General Elections as of June 3, 2020. GECOM has so far tabulated the votes cast in 1,968 boxes, which is 84.14% of the 2,339 boxes generated at the General Elections
Table showing tabulated results for the March 2 General Elections as of June 3, 2020. GECOM has so far tabulated the votes cast in 1,968 boxes, which is 84.14% of the 2,339 boxes generated at the General Elections

With 84% of the ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections tabulated as of yesterday, the PPP/C had tallied 187,549 votes compared to 174,499 for APNU+AFC, a lead of 13,050 votes.

As of today, all counting stations will be dedicated to recounting the remaining ballots of District Four, which has 324 boxes outstanding, Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioner Sase Gunraj said yesterday.

There are two boxes from District 6 and District 10 waiting to be counted. These two boxes will be completed at some point during the morning thereby paving the way for all work stations to continue the recount of ballots from  District Four.

Table showing the number of ballot boxes counted at the end of Day 29

As of yesterday an additional 84 boxes were counted bringing the total number of boxes recounted to 2,013 from 2,339 boxes or 86%. (There is usually a small difference between the number ballot boxes recounted and the number  tabulated.)

At the 12 counting stations operating at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), 40 boxes were processed for Region 4 – 20 for District 6 and 24 for District 10.

GECOM yesterday said that a total of 1,968 General Statements of Recount (SORs) and 1,961 Regional SORs have been tabulated.

As the recount process from the historic March 2 general elections winds down, the counting should be completed by Sunday thereby paving the way for discussions at GECOM on the declaration of the long-awaited result. Should this be achieved, Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield will potentially have six days to complete the recount report before its June 13 submission deadline.