69% of votes cast; counting ready to begin

Published by [email protected] at November 4, 2015

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Wednesday, November 4th 2015. Aaron Humes Reporting: More than 130,000 votes were cast in today’s general election in all six districts.

Voter turnout stood at 69% according to the official count by the Election and Boundaries Department.

Counting officially begins at 8:00 but early indications say that Said Musa has retained his seat in Fort George and Kareem Musa is leading in Caribbean Shores while Michael Finnegan has declared victory in Mesopotamia in his final race.

The first official result is in from Queen’s Square where UDP leader Dean Barrow has retained with 2,238 votes to 490 for Anthony Sylvestre of the PUP.

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