2003 British Virgin Islands general election

General election held in the British Virgin Islands April 2014 April 2014 2003 British Virgin Islands general election British Virgin Islands parliamentary 1999 British Virgin Islands general election 1999 yes 2003 06 16 2007 British Virgin Islands general election 2007 13 of the 15 seats in the House of Assembly 7 72% 150x150px Orlando Smith National Democratic Party (British Virgin Islands) 1999 At-large 38.14%, 5 seats 8 3 52.39% 150x150px Ralph T. O'Neal Virgin Islands Party 1995 9th District 36.74%, 7 seats 5 2 42.22% Chief Minister Ralph T. O'Neal Virgin Islands Party Orlando Smith National Democratic Party (British Virgin Islands) General elections were held in the British Virgin Islands on 16 June 2003. It was won by the opposition National Democratic Party (NDP), which took 54.4% of the vote and 8 of the 13 available seats on the Legislative Council. After the election the NDP formed a Government for the first time in its history. Both major parties - the NDP and the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) actually increased their share of the overall vote at the expense of minority parties and independents. No independents or any minority parties won any seats. The NDP won all four of the territorial-at-large seats. Results The NDP's victory was largely as a result of sweeping all four of the At-large seats. However, with each voter being able to cast four votes per ballot, the margin between the bottom NDP candidate (Paul Wattley) and the top VIP candidate (Reeial George) was a mere 41 votes, out of a total of 7,351 ballots cast (a margin of 0.5%). The other key win for the NDP was in the Fifth District where Delores Christopher carried the seat for the NDP by a wafer thin margin of just 3 votes in a constituency where a total of 20 ballots were rejected by elections officers. Voters exercised a largely binary choice between the two main parties. No third party candidate or independent polled well in any area. In the Territorial seats, Alred Frett in the Fifth District was the highest vote-getter, with a mere 7.1% of the votes. In the At-large seats, the top eight spots went to the four candidates for each of the two main parties, with a massive drop off in numbers of votes for the ninth place candidate (Conrad Maduro, a former elected representative on the United Party ticket). District At-large National Democratic Party 3390 4 15295 4 8 +3 Virgin Islands Party 3799 5 12325 0 5 –2 United Party 590 0 0 0 Independents 87 0 984 0 0 0 Speaker and Attorney General 2 0 7336 92 15 0 10184 10180 Elections in the Virgin Islands District seats 1st District Andrew Fahie Virgin Islands Party 558 Archibald Christian National Democratic Party 223 6 1154 2nd District Alvin Christopher National Democratic Party 507 Kelvin Thomas Virgin Islands Party 230 5 1105 3rd District Julian Fraser Virgin Islands Party 473 Michael Thomas National Democratic Party 325 7 1058 4th District Mark Vanterpool Virgin Islands Party 511 Audley Maduro National Democratic Party 337 12 1172 5th District Delores Christopher National Democratic Party 362 Ethlyn Smith Virgin Islands Party 359 Alred Frett Independent 57 20 1222 6th District Omar Hodge Virgin Islands Party 489 Walwyn Brewley National Democratic Party 356 Leopold Richardson Independent 30 14 1289 7th District Kedrick Pickering National Democratic Party 452 Clinton George Virgin Islands Party 263 5 941 8th District Lloyd Black National Democratic Party 458 Ray George Virgin Islands Party 320 9 1010 9th District Ralph T. O'Neal Virgin Islands Party 596 Hubert O'Neal National Democratic Party 370 14 1233 At-large seats Orlando Smith National Democratic Party 4300 Ronnie W. Skelton National Democratic Party 4165 Eileene Parsons National Democratic Party 3515 Paul P. Wattley National Democratic Party 3315 Reeial George Virgin Islands Party 3274 Irene Penn-O'Neal Virgin Islands Party 3157 Elvis Harrigan Virgin Islands Party 3128 Roy Pickering Virgin Islands Party 2766 Conrad Maduro BVI United Party 590 John I. Cline Independent 450 Henry Einstein Kettle Independent 220 Richard Courtney de Castro Independent 172 Eileene E. Baronville Independent 142 7336 15 10180 References BVI News online Category:Elections in the British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands General election British Virgin Islands British Virgin