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2001 Vincentian general election

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countrySaint Vincent and the Grenadines
typeparliamentary
previous_election1998 Vincentian general election
previous_year1998
next_election2005 Vincentian general election
next_year2005
seats_for_election15 of 23 seats in the House of Assembly
majority_seats8
election_date28 March 2001
registered84,536
turnout69.20% ( 1.84pp)
image1Ralph_Gonsalves_2004.jpg
leader1Ralph Gonsalves
party1Unity Labour Party
popular_vote132,925
percentage156.49%
swing11.89pp
last_election17 seats
seats112
seat_change15
image2Arnhim Eustace (cropped).jpg
leader2Arnhim Eustace
party2New Democratic Party (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
popular_vote223,844
percentage240.91%
swing24.40pp
last_election28 seats
seats23
seat_change25
map_image2001 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines general election - Results by constituency.svg
map_captionResults by constituency
titlePrime Minister
before_electionArnhim Eustace
before_partyNew Democratic Party (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
after_electionRalph Gonsalves
after_partyUnity Labour Party
leaders_seat1North Central Windward
leader_since16 December 1998
leader_since227 October 2000
leaders_seat2East Kingstown

General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 28 March 2001. The Unity Labour Party (ULP), which had won the popular vote in the 1998 elections but lost to the New Democratic Party (NDP), this time won a landslide victory, taking 12 of the 15 seats, ending seventeen years of an NDP government. The NDP, which obtained its worst result since 1979, retained only three of its eight seats inclusive of the two Grenadines seats which had voted for the party's former leader, Sir James Mitchell, in every general election since 1966.

With his ULP having won every election until 2025, Gonsalves became the country's longest continuously-serving head of government in 2017, surpassing the previous record-holder, James Mitchell who had served continuously for 16 years and 2 months.

Results

References

References

  1. [[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p600 {{ISBN. 978-0-19-928357-6
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