1999 Barbadian general election

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20 January 1999

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28 seats in the House of Assembly
15 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

63.36% (

2.47pp)

	First party	Second party

Leader	Owen Arthur	David Thompson
Party	BLP	DLP
Leader's seat	St. Peter	St. John
Last election	19 seats	8 seats
Seats won	26	2
Seat change	7	6
Popular vote	83,445	45,118
Percentage	64.87%	35.08%
Swing	16.53pp	3.25pp

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Owen Arthur
Barbados Labour Party

Elected Prime Minister

Owen Arthur
Barbados Labour Party

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General elections were held in Barbados on 20 January 1999. The result was a landslide victory for the Barbados Labour Party led by Owen Arthur, which won 26 of the 28 seats. The opposition Democratic Labour Party led by David Thompson, only won two seats. Voter turnout was 63.4%.

At the time, this was the largest margin of victory since universal suffrage was introduced in 1951. This record would be broken in 2018, when the BLP won all 30 seats in the House of Assembly.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Barbados Labour Party	83,445	64.87	26	+7
	Democratic Labour Party	45,118	35.08	2	–6
	Independents	67	0.05	0	0
Total		128,630	100.00	28	0

Valid votes		128,630	99.37
Invalid/blank votes		820	0.63
Total votes		129,450	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		204,307	63.36
Source: Nohlen

References

^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p90 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
"Barbados: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 1999". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 31 March 2021.

External links

Constituency results from Adam Carr's Election Archive

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