1999 Barbadian general election

Election in Barbados 1999 Barbadian general election Barbados parliamentary no 1994 Barbadian general election 1994 2003 Barbadian general election 2003 63.36% (2.47pp) 28 seats in the House of Assembly 15 20 January 1999 Owen Arthur-2.jpg Owen Arthur Barbados Labour Party St. Peter 19 seats 26 7 83,445 64.87% 16.53pp David John Howard Thompson - World Economic Forum on Latin America 2010 (cropped).jpg David Thompson Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) St. John 8 seats 2 6 45,118 35.08% 3.25pp Prime Minister Owen Arthur Barbados Labour Party Owen Arthur Barbados Labour Party 1999 Barbadian general election.svg Results by constituency General elections were held in Barbados on 20 January 1999.Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p90 978-0-19-928357-6 The result was a landslide victory for the Barbados Labour Party led by Owen Arthur, which won 26 of the 28 seats.http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2025_99.htm Barbados: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 1999 31 March 2021 Inter-Parliamentary Union 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 File:House of Assembly of Barbados, 1999.svg Barbados Labour Party 83445 26 +7 Democratic Labour Party 45118 2 –6 Independents 67 0 0 0 820 204307 Nohlen References External links Constituency results from Adam Carr's Election Archive Barbados Category:1999 in Barbados Category:Elections in Barbados Category:January 1999 in North America