2000 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election

none Saint Kitts and Nevis parliamentary 1995 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election 1995 6 March 2000 2004 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election 2004 11 of 15 seats in the National Assembly 6 34,166 64.24% ( 4.14pp) 130x130px Denzil_L_Douglas.jpg Denzil Douglas Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party 49.58%, 7 seats 8 1 11,762 53.85% 4.27pp Vance Amory (cropped).jpeg Vance Amory Concerned Citizens' Movement 8.22%, 2 seats 2 1,901 8.70% 0.48pp Joseph Parry 2011.jpg Joseph Parry Nevis Reformation Party 7.03%, 1 seat 1 1,710 7.83% 0.80pp 2000 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election results by constituency.svg Results by constituency Prime Minister Denzil Douglas Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party Denzil Douglas Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party General elections were held in Saint Kitts and Nevis on 6 March 2000. The result was a victory for the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, which won eight of the eleven directly-elected seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 64.2%. Background and campaign In February 2000, the prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas, announced that there would be an election in March 2000, four months before a general election was constitutionally due.https://uwispace.sta.uwi.edu/items/29c448ab-4a7e-423a-a59c-d8691b783ea7 Caribbean Report 14-02-2000 The BBC Caribbean (radio) University of the West Indies 14 February 2000 The Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) under Douglas' leadership had governed since the 1995 election, when they had won a majority with 7 of 11 elected seats.http://www.caribbeanelections.com/kn/elections/kn_results_1995.asp General Election Results - 3 April 1995 4 May 2026 28 June 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220628004040/http://www.caribbeanelections.com/kn/elections/kn_results_1995.asp bot: unknown , KnowledgeWalk Institute, Caribbean Elections This was the first general election for the federation since the unsuccessful Nevisian independence referendum in 1998, leading Douglas to state in a campaign rally that if his party lost power to the People's Action Movement (PAM), it could lead to a PAM-led coalition with Nevisian parties and "instability and confusion" for the federation.https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/caribbean/elections.htm Labor Party returned to power in St. Kitts elections Associated Press 7 March 2000 Latin American Studies The extradition of a notable alleged drug trafficker to the United States in February 2000 was seen by experts as being likely to boost the SKNLP's campaign.https://www.newspapers.com/image/643779535/ 28 February 2000 Extradition a big relief for tiny island The Miami Herald newspapers.com 2 May 2025https://www.newspapers.com/image/239301152/ Drug link bugs island election South Florida Sun Sentinel 5 March 2000 Suzanne Gordon newspapers.com The PAM and its former prime minister Kennedy Simmonds criticised Labour's economic record and the level of government debt.https://www.newspapers.com/image/213093206/ Saint Kitts and Nevis voters to decide bitter campaign News-Press 7 March 2000 newspapers.com In Nevis, the Concerned Citizens' Movement leader and Nevis Premier Vance Amory campaigned on his claimed successes in government locally in Nevis. Results Voting took place on 6 March 2000 and resulted in a landslide victory for the SKNLP, which won all eight seats on Saint Kitts and therefore held a majority in the National Assembly.Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p574 978-0-19-928357-6 Notably, PAM's only member of parliament and Leader of the Opposition, Hugh Heyliger, lost his seat to the SKNLP's Jacinth Henry-Martin. Turnout for the election was 64.2%.Nohlen, p577 File:Saint-Christophe-et-Nieves Assemblee 2000.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party 11762 8 +1 People's Action Movement 6468 0 –1 Concerned Citizens' Movement 1901 2 0 Nevis Reformation Party 1710 1 0 Appointed members 4 0 108 0 34166 Caribbean Elections References Saint Kitts Category:Elections in Saint Kitts and Nevis General Category:March 2000 in North America