APPENDIX: KSAC and Parish Council Election Results

• Author: Trevor Munroe/Arnold Bertram
• Profession: Rhodes Scholar and Fulbright Fellow, political scientist, labour activist and politician, is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of the West Indies, Mona/Distinguished commentator on Jamaican Social History and Political Development is a former Legislator in both houses of the Jamaican Parliament and a former Minister of ...
• Pages: 717-718

Appendix / 717

Local Government Election Results (1947–98)

KSAC And Parish Council Election Results

Summary Of Votes

Key:

JLP – Jamaica Labour Party

PNP – People’s National Party

WPJ – Workers Party of Jamaica

O/C – Other Candidates

O/P – Other Party

Ind. – Independent candidates

Date Parties Votes

Cast

%

of

Votes

Electors

on List

Ballots

Cast

%

of

Ballots

Ballots

Rejected

%

Reject

Ballots

23-Oct-47 Ind. 88,111 37.6 614,209 234,335 38.2 12,155 5.2

PNP 68,784 29.4

JLP 65,285 27.8

28-Jun-51 PNP 80,912 43.4 618,506 189,816 30.7 3,459 1.8

JLP 68,057 36.5

O/C 37,388 20.1

21-Mar-56 PNP 148,422 62.25 773,231 238,410 30.83 3,062 1.28

JLP 72,308 30.75

O/P 17,680 7.42

1-Mar-60 PNP 198,320 55.36 819,459 361,084 44.06 2,878 0.8

JLP 150,338 41.97

O/P 9,548 2.67

28-Jun-66 JLP 176,792 48.5 574,786 367,539 63.96 3,040 0.83

PNP 184,955 50.74

Other 2,752 0.76

18-Mar-69 JLP 175,792 48.5 574,786 367,539 63.96 3,040 0.83

PNP 184,955 50.74

Other 2,752 0.76

5-Feb-74 PNP 246,980 53.88 728,522 458,370 100 3,758 0.82

JLP 198,573 43.32

Other 9,059 1.98

8-Mar-77 PNP 338,617 67.43 859,256 504,753 58.74 2,599 0.15

JLP 163,399 32.54

Other 138 0.03

4-Feb-81 JLP 357,698 63.27 990,596 565,358 59.86 5,311 0.94

PNP 199,602 35.31

WPJ 597 0.1

Ind. 2,150 0.38

29-Jul-86 JLP 257,075 40.96 1,120,205 627,589 56.02 5,310 0.85

PNP 364,824 58.13

Ind. 380 0.06