1979 Vincentian general election

none Saint Vincent and the Grenadines parliamentary 1974 Vincentian general election 1974 1984 Vincentian general election 1984 13 of 21 seats in the House of Assembly 7 5 December 1979 52,073 63.90% ( 0.66pp) Milton Cato 1982.jpg Milton Cato Saint Vincent Labour Party 17,876 54.24% 14.80pp 69.04%, 10 seats 11 1 James F. Mitchell 1986 (cropped).jpg James Mitchell New Democratic Party (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) 9,022 27.38% New – 2 New 1979 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines general election - Results by constituency.svg Results by constituency Prime Minister Office created Milton Cato SVLP General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 5 December 1979.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p600 978-0-19-928357-6 The result was a victory for the Saint Vincent Labour Party (SVLP), which won eleven of the thirteen seats. Voter turnout was 64%,Nohlen, p603 up only slightly from 63% in 1974. Campaign Fifty candidates contested the 13 seats from four parties. The SVLP led by Milton Cato, Prime Minister since 1974; the People's Political Party (PPP), the SVLP's traditional rival, headed by Ebenezer Joshua; the New Democratic Party, led by James Fitz-Allen Mitchell; and the United People's Movement of Ralph Gonsalves, which contested elections for the first time. All four groups presented a similar manifesto but ideologically the United People's Movement was oriented to the left much as the political groups which had recently come to power in Grenada and Saint Lucia. The SVLP (considered a moderate socialist party), the centrist New Democratic Party and the People's Political Party were oriented to the right.http://www.caribbeanelections.com/vc/elections/vc_results_1979.asp General Election Results - 5 December 1979 Caribbean Elections 1 December 2017 24 December 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191224122032/http://www.caribbeanelections.com/vc/elections/vc_results_1979.asp dead Results On polling day, the SVLP obtained a clear victory as it captured 11 of the 13 seats. The other two seats went to New Democratic Party candidates although the NDP leader, James Mitchell, was himself defeated. File:Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines Assemblee 1979.svg Saint Vincent Labour Party 17876 11 +1 New Democratic Party 9022 2 New United People's Movement 4467 0 New #D852AB People's Political Party 1492 0 –2 Independents 98 0 New 321 0 52073 Nohlen By constituency Constituency Registeredvoters Party Votes SVLP NDP UPM PPP Independents Valid Invalid Total Turnout Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %North Windward2,94371835.556628.026813.336217.9984.92,01282,02068.6North Central Windward4,5821,72556.163320.658218.91153.7––3,055193,07467.1South Central Windward3,5691,00644.165828.838316.82269.9––2,273102,28364.0South Windward3,4751,39159.561126.130513.0––––2,307322,33967.3Marriaqua3,5271,80782.122910.41356.1120.5––2,183182,20162.4East St. George4,3501,96274.041615.72378.9150.6––2,630222,65261.0West St. George4,8151,60855.732211.241914.551017.7––2,859262,88559.9East Kingstown4,4251,36956.347819.746819.3813.3––2,396342,43054.9West Kingstown4,4041,58663.451420.537915.1––––2,479242,50356.8South Leeward4,7401,67851.698930.449115.1280.9––3,186633,24968.5Central Leeward3,1601,36060.629113.055324.7221.0––2,226172,24371.0North Leeward4,2531,38444.51,44846.62477.9150.5––3,094163,11073.1Grenadines3,83028212.31,86781.6––1064.6––2,255322,28759.7Total52,07317,87654.29,02227.44,46713.61,4924.5980.332,95532133,27663.9 Seats, of total, by party SVLP 84.6 #f23140 NDP 15.6 #ffcc29 Votes, of total, by party SVLP 54.2 #f23140 NDP 27.4 #ffcc29 UPM 13.6 #42aaf4 PPP 4.5 #ff933a Independents 0.3 #ffffff References Saint Vincent Category:Elections in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines General Category:December 1979 in North America