The leader of the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) Dr. Godwin Friday, comfortable won his Northern Grenadines seat for the sixth consecutive time in Thursday’s general election as his party seems heading towards ending 25 years in the political wilderness.
Friday polled 2,183 votes as against for the Unity Labour Party’s (ULP) candidate, Carlos Williams, who could only muster 339 votes, and in the processing losing his deposit, according to the preliminary results announced here.
The NDP is seeking to prevent the ULP, headed by Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves from winning an unprecedented sixth consecutive term in office, and according to the preliminary results so far, the NDP is heading towards forming the government, leading in as many as 12 seats.
Gonsalves is leading comfortably in his Windward seat, polling 1815 to 791 for the NDP’s Cheftain Neptune with the results of one polling station yet to come in.
Among the NDP candidates leading is the President of Cricket West Indies, who is enjoying a comfortable lead over the Minister of Tourism, Carlos James by more than 200 votes with two polling stations yet to declare.
In the 2020 general election, the ULP won nine of the 15 seats.