1989 Antiguan general election

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← 1984

9 March 1989

1994 →

All 17 seats in the House of Representatives
9 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

60.72% (

0.40pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Vere Bird	Baldwin Spencer	Hilbourne Frank
Party	ALP	UNDP	BPM
Seats won	15	1	1
Seat change	1	1	1
Popular vote	14,207	6,889	304
Percentage	63.85%	30.96%	1.37%
Swing	4.05pp	30.96pp	1.37pp

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Vere Bird
ALP

Subsequent Prime Minister

Vere Bird
ALP

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General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 9 March 1989,^[1] the second after it had become an independent Commonwealth realm. The elections were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party (ALP), whose leader Vere Bird was reelected as Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 60.7%.^[1]

This was Bird's eighth and final election victory. He resigned as Prime Minister in 1994, just before the subsequent general elections. Bird was replaced by his son, Lester Bird, the long-time party chairman.

Results[edit]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Antigua Labour Party	14,207	63.85	15	–1
	United National Democratic Party	6,889	30.96	1	New
	Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement	435	1.96	0	New
	Barbuda People's Movement	304	1.37	1	New
	Barbuda Democratic Movement	150	0.67	0	New
	Barbuda Independence Movement	71	0.32	0	New
	Independents	193	0.87	0	–1
Total		22,249	100.00	17	0

Valid votes		22,249	99.37
Invalid/blank votes		141	0.63
Total votes		22,390	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		36,876	60.72
Source: Nohlen

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p66 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

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