Barbados general election

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A much closer result than in Grenada. Of the 30 single-member constituencies of the House of Assembly, preliminary results show the Democratic Labour Party taking 16 seats (down 4 from 2008) and the Barbados Labour Party taking 14 (up 4).
The former is the more right-wing of the two parties.

[Dan]

Feb 23, 2013 9:23:55 GMT swanarcadian said:

Results show the Democratic Labour Party taking 16 seats (down 4 from 2008) and the Barbados Labour Party taking 14 (up 4). The former is the more right-wing of the two parties.

I'd have said that it's the other way round - the Barbados Labour Party tends to be considered 'softer left' than the Democratic Labour Party.

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Quite a reverse of the previous election- this time the Barbados Labour Party has won all 30 seats. Barbados has its first woman Prime Minister.

[mondialito]

May 25, 2018 17:10:16 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Quite a reverse of the previous election- this time the Barbados Labour Party has won all 30 seats. Barbados has its first woman Prime Minister.

Some context which may explain why Mia Mottley won't have any formal opposition in the House of Assembly.


www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/05/24/barbadoss-mucky-election?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/barbadossmuckyelectionpollutedpolitics

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May 25, 2018 19:18:11 GMT mondialito said:

May 25, 2018 17:10:16 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Quite a reverse of the previous election- this time the Barbados Labour Party has won all 30 seats. Barbados has its first woman Prime Minister.

Some context which may explain why Mia Mottley won't have any formal opposition in the House of Assembly.

www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/05/24/barbadoss-mucky-election?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/barbadossmuckyelectionpollutedpolitics

If you get blocked by the paywall most of the points are in this video:

[johnloony]

The DLP did a homophobic campaign against the BLP and it backfired

76crimes.com/2018/05/26/with-a-boost-from-rihanna-barbados-rejects-homophobia

[Andrew_S]

I wonder whether Barbados is now the only genuine democracy in the world where one party holds 100% of seats.

[Deleted]

Jun 9, 2018 23:06:21 GMT johnloony said:

The DLP did a homophobic campaign against the BLP and it backfired

76crimes.com/2018/05/26/with-a-boost-from-rihanna-barbados-rejects-homophobia

It's probably exaggerated how much that mattered. The government's defeat was mostly due to mismanagement of the economy and environment incl. a "sewage crisis" that has set their tourist industry back a lot.

[johnloony]

May 25, 2018 17:10:16 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Quite a reverse of the previous election- this time the Barbados Labour Party has won all 30 seats. Barbados has its first woman Prime Minister.

Immediately after the election, one BLP MP defected so that there could be an official Leader of the Opposition. So now the House of Assembly is BLP 29, People’s Party 1.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Atherley

[finsobruce]

Nov 30, 2021 10:52:26 GMT johnloony said:

May 25, 2018 17:10:16 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Quite a reverse of the previous election- this time the Barbados Labour Party has won all 30 seats. Barbados has its first woman Prime Minister.

Immediately after the election, one BLP MP defected so that there could be an official Leader of the Opposition. So now the House of Assembly is BLO 29, People’s Party 1.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Atherley

[cogload]

Also explains why the switch to a Republic was a political stitch up and not put to a referendum.

[rcronald]

What’s the difference between DLP and BLP? And is the DLP dead?

[iang]

The Senate (the upper house) has opposition representatives. Wes Hall was a member of the DLP - so as far as I know, still is

[Georg Ebner]

The SnapElec. will have been held today. Results 2018, ranked by margins:

[Georg Ebner]

The 2022-numbers look like those of 2018 fishy and are here and there clearly incomplete ("0").