Latest update February 16th, 2025 7:49 PM
Latest News
- Oil in Liza 1, 2 and Payara to be drained in less than five years
- ExxonM does not deny paying taxes in Bahamas but tells K/News to focus on how the oil deal is delivering money to Guyana
- Thousands take part in London rally against Donald Trump’s Gaza plan
- Govt. aggressively pursuing digitizing of health sector – Pres. Ali
- 275 cases of child abuse recorded in 2025 – Min. Persaud
Election results… GECOM’s new data has Coalition in the lead
GECOM’s CEO, Keith Lowenfield
After a long wait, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced preliminary results of the May 11, General and Regional elections.
The released figures indicate that Guyana may very well be on its way towards being run by a coalition government.
During a press conference last evening, GECOM’s Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, told media operatives that only 1,809 of 2,299 Statements of Poll have been processed.
He said that tabulation of the processed statements has shown A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) in the lead.
According to the raw data given to the media as part of the results of the General Elections, APNU+AFC has acquired 157,347 votes while the PPP/C acquired 157,304—a difference of 43 votes.
APNU+AFC has since described this as a selective release by GECOM of the election data. The party said that this is cherry-picking on the Statements of Poll and is creating unnecessary confusion.
The data is void of 490 Statements of Poll which are still to be processed; Region Four accounts for a whooping 276 of the unprocessed statements.
Processing the outstanding amount will reflect an increase of the number of votes for the coalition. This is based on the fact that Region Four is a stronghold of the coalition. This year’s voting trend is showing that nothing has changed in this regard.
Region Four has 891 polling stations, of the 615 counted, APNU+AFC has 77,296 while PPP acquired 46,117. APNU therefore secured 31,179 more votes.
GECOM had promised to announce 94 percent of the results by last evening. However, when the time arrived, Lowenfield said that this was no longer possible because of the “dynamism in the environment.”
The “dynamism” referred to was the PPP’s request for a recount of some statements of poll in all of the 10 administrative regions across Guyana.
APNU+AFC had requested that the recount be halted and the official declaration of results made at the soonest possible time.
The Chief Elections Officer Lowenfield and GECOM’S Chairman Dr. Steve Surujbally have assured that tabulation of all votes will be completed overnight and final results should be available by 10am today.
This assurance has been made even as GECOM is contemplating a recount of votes in all ten districts at the request of the ruling PPP. Already recounts have been completed in Districts one and two.
The PPP call comes even after observers stated that elections were free and fair.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
I don’t remember!
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- I have an uncle, Morty Finkelstein, who has the peculiar habit of remembering things with... more
CARICOM Nations Should Respond Together To new U.S. Policies
By Sir Ronald Sanders Ambassador to the US and the OAS, Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News-Two Executive Orders issued by U.S.... more
Weekend Cartoon
