Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2025. 10:11 pm CST.
By Aaron Humes: Projections from Jamaica and Guyana have indicated that the incumbent governments of both Caribbean countries were returned for another term in general elections held this week.
Guyanese voted on Monday and after two days of counting, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic of President Irfaan Ali is projected to have won 36 of Guyana’s 65 electoral seats, awarded by proportional representation.
New party We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), led by billionaire businessman Azruddin Mohammed, shocked the Partnership for National Unity (APNU), led by Aubrey Norton’s People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R) by taking a projected 16 seats to 12, reducing the coalition that was accused of attempting to rig the 2020 election to third place. The last seat is filled by Amanda Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement.
In Jamaica, which voted today, it was largely a straight fight between the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), seeking a third term, and the People’s National Party (PNP), the long-time rivals.
The Public Broadcasting Service of Jamaica has called the election for the JLP and Prime Minister Andrew Holness, albeit with a reduced majority of 34 to 29 in Jamaica’s 63-seat parliament, reduced from 49 to 14 in the last election. Jamaica votes first-past-the-post.
Including Belize’s general election in March, this is the fifth election in the Caribbean this year, with St Vincent still to come. Only Trinidad and Tobago has changed its government, dropping the People’s National Movement (PNM) in late April for the United National Congress (UNC) of Kamla Persad-Bissessar after the retirement of Dr Keith Rowley.
Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai and attorney Darrell Bradley served as observers in the Guyana election on behalf of the Commonwealth, which has declared it free and fair.
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