1991 Barbadian general election

none Barbados parliamentary 1986 Barbadian general election 1986 1994 Barbadian general election 1994 63.72% ( 12.98pp) 28 seats in the House of Assembly 15 22 January 1991 Erskine Sandiford 1989.jpg Erskine Sandiford Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) 24 seats 18 6 59,900 49.77% 9.68pp Henry Forde 1976.jpg Henry Forde Barbados Labour Party 3 seats 10 7 51,789 43.03% 2.66pp Prime Minister Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) 1991 Barbadian general election.svg Results by constituency General elections were held in Barbados on 22 January 1991 to elect all 28 members (MPs) of the House of Assembly of Barbados.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p90 978-0-19-928357-6 The result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP), which won 18 of the 28 seats.1991 Election Watch https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/225600 Journal of Democracy 2 2 121–123 1086-3214 The opposition Barbados Labour Party led by Henry Forde won ten seats, an increase of seven compared to the 1986 elections. Voter turnout was 63.7%. DLP leader Lloyd Erskine Sandiford remained Prime Minister. This was the first general election contested by the National Democratic Party (NDP), which had been founded in 1989 by four defecting DLP MPs, led by the former finance minister Richard Haynes.Barbados General Election Results - 22 January 1991 http://www.caribbeanelections.com/bb/elections/bb_results_1991.asp Caribbean Elections 25 October 2020 12 May 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210512194238/http://caribbeanelections.com/bb/elections/bb_results_1991.asp dead Despite polling nearly 7% of the national vote, all four lost their seats and no new NDP members were elected under Barbados' first-past-the-post electoral system. Results File:House of Assembly of Barbados, 1991.svg Democratic Labour Party 59900 18 –6 Barbados Labour Party 51789 10 +7 National Democratic Party 8218 0 New #4F81BD Independents 445 0 0 +1 1344 191000 Nohlen References Barbados General Category:Elections in Barbados Barbados