On December 8, 2014 Dominicans went to the poll to elect a new government to run affairs of state for the next five years.
The Dominica Labour Party (DLP) won the election capturing 15 seats while the United Workers Party (UWP) grabbed six.
Below is the unofficial results from the poll. The official results will be released by the Electoral Commission later on Tuesday.
Castle Bruce Constituency
Isaac Baptiste-UWP 778
Johnson Drigo-DLP 932
Morne Jaune
Thompson Fontaine-UWP 605
Ivor Stephenson-DLP 617
Laplaine
Petter Saint Jean- DLP 846
Ronald Green-UWP 692
Cottage
Reginald Austrie-DLP 1028
Stewart Burton-UWP 192
Jerome Lavashire -Independent 19
St Joseph
Monelle Williams-uwp 938
Kelvar Darroux-DLP 1190
Colihaut
Catherine Daniel -DLP 706
Nicholas George-UWP 222
Vieille Case
Roosevelt Skerrit-DLP 1087
Alex Birmingham-UWP 185
Wesley
Ezkiel Bazil-UWP 933
Athenia Benjamin 801
Marigot
Lennox Linton-UWP 935
Martin Christmas-DLP 299
Roseau Central
Joseph Isaac-UWP 966
Alvin Bernard-DLP 921
Mahaut
Rayburn Blackmore-DLP 2209
Felix Thomas-UWP 1812
Paix Bouche
Eunica Anthony-Victor-UWP 296
Roselyn Paul-DLP 1212
Salybia
Claudius Sanford-UWP 729
Cassius Darroux-DLP 1146
Grand Bay
Justina Charles-DLP 1426
James Alexander-UWP 366
Salisbury
Hector Jonh-UWP 881
Nicholas Esprit-DLP 577
Roseau Valley
Ronald Charles-UWP 842
John Colin Mc Intyre-DLP 944
Roseau North
Julius Timothy-DLP 1469
Daniel Lugay-UWP 2032
Petite Savanne
Kenneth Darroux-DLP 1183
Urban Baron-UWP 510
Roseau South
Ambrose George-DLP 1936
Joshua Francis -UWP 2179
Soufriere
Higgs Adams-UWP 825
Ian Pinard-DLP 1331
Portsmouth
Ian Douglas -DLP 1351
Jefferson James -UWP 319
Cabral Douglas-IND 19
One thing that short lady said ” she kw one person is her mother” so doh ask her who is her father cuz she kw where she will vote.
But what is wrong with these bare face labourites who want to tell us about image and leader and who to lead our party i hope uwp don’t fall for that crap cause they did not like Edison, we send Earl they put him down, we send Spaggs they put him down say they will not vote for de maggie, we send Ron Green they say his time expire they will not vote for uwp because of its leader we bring them an honest man, a man with integrity a man who can read a speech out of his head a man who can organise and put the best campaign dominica has ever seen, now they want us to change him so they can vote for uwp, we moving forward with our leader thats not labourites call neither is it any bajan call.
BOSTON you are most welcome. U are qualified for the welfare program. i am glad you were able to get the ticket to come visit your family. thank God for skerrit and election since that’s the only way you can visit. i will be watching you as you collect your food stamps in Boston so you won’t die of starvation. its a pity you can’t post them to your family you left in misery in DA.
R.I.P Dominica. It seems you enjoy the poverty you are sinking into year after year. Thank god I am now out! It hurts me to see that our people are so dumb as to keep this criminal in office. No worries if the difficulties of the next 5 yrs don’t break you maybe you need 10 more years of Skerrit.
I will leave my comments for later , in the meantime I will be watching .
Yes I could see the hatred and jealousy of the senjoseph diaspora who has masters and docter rate and get jealous of ms monnell Williams who demonstrate all her leader ship credential that no one who has in the senjo constuienccy no one I say . And Mr Burton electoral Commision you have family in senjoseph who help to manipulate the election process so all gang up but Team. Dominica sleeping welll
UWP won this election!
DLP stole the election…… AGAIN!!!!!
I wonder if those Labourites have a conscience?
I wonder if these people are going to heaven?
AS for the Diaspora…… they are traitors to our country!!!!!
The DLP had 10 sure country seats, lets be real man.
Me
DLP stole –
Mahaut? Grandbay? Cottage? Salybia? Petite Savanne? Soufriere? Portsmouth? Viellle Case? Paix Bouche? Colihaut? and Roseau Valley? That’s eleven! Are you saying that the mighty UWP could have taken the other ten plus one of those I mentioned?
You all need to stop whipping up people’s emotions into a frenzy on misinformation and dissatisfaction with yourselves! Why isn’t Alvin Bernard in Roseau Central ranting and raving, seeing that the count was so close? Why isn’t Athenia Benjamin shouting about the people from the Diaspora who came in to vote for the UWP? Why is it that every decent person is congratulating Joshua Francis because of the work he did and his personality, rather than looking for some ulterior mechanism by which he won. Finally why is it that all the seats won by the UWP were achieved freely and fairly while those won by the DLP were stolen?
May God heal and look over us as a nation and protect our children from the daily display of national anger, hostility, hatred and envy at every turn.
Oh dear; don’t cry for me Argentina.
Judging by the number of comments flying around since Labour won the election, there seem to be sour grapes on offer in abundance.
Well zor sa matay sotay, but that won’t change anything.
The best party won and that’s all there is to it. SAY NO MORE.
Labour Did Not win fair n square When Dominicans Know How corrupeted their pm n his Crew are they will get him Out
One more thing after they won last night they were jumping up labour labour five more years she couldn’t gave me a 20 dollars to bring her child to the hospital I said to her how she telling she not working it just bad with her.but five more years I did not want to bring her but because was a child
From next Wednesday we going to start begging, and wait for to him gave us money to pay our Bill’s.that is how we like to live in Dominica.we will always vote for the dlp. Let me make one thing clear I will never gain gave a lobourite a free ride again on mine transport.
Be careful my friend.
A lady was standing in her yard, perhaps with all her plans in her mind of what she wanted to do that day and the next, I hope that they were not bad plans like yours, when she got killed in the twinkling of an eye! You Therefore have no guarantee that you will be alive tomorrow, will still have a “transport” tomorrow, will even be able to drive tomorrow or that it will be a Labourite needing a free ride tomorrow!
Once again, be careful!
Hon Blackmoore has only two persons to blame for this margin… himself and his supporters…. He allows himself to be persuaded and influenced by his supporters which allows him to treat others like they are not worth his time and effort…… I hope Hon Roosevelt skerrit would put some sense into this man and let him know that his attitude will take him nowhere and will only cause the DLP to lose votes….
I hope to see change from him in the next 5 especially for those villages in his constituency he pays no heed to.
Ur sit in parliament and as a member of cabinet depends on us
Mr. Blackmore behaves like a snob.
Overall Analysis : (Excluding rejected ballots)
Labour : 57.93%
UWP : 41.98%
Independent : 0.09%
NB: What happen to Papi?
papi realise them people will never give him his saw back so he went over to the saw.uwp.
The long and short of it is now obvious. “Empty vessels make the most noise” and my God didn’t this UWP make plenty of noise.
They were so triumphalist, that they took the Dominican electorate for granted thinking that victory was done, dusted and secured.
I am not hearing too much noise coming from the UWP supporters now. In fact they have gone so quiet that their silence is absolutely deafening.
Well they have five years ahead of them to go and put their tails between their legs and lick their sorry wounds and restore their battered egos.
Lennox Linton and the UWP ran a negative campaign from start to finish. Rather than concentrate on their policies and be relentless on their manifesto programme, instead they were pre-occupied in going on constantly about alleged corruption.
Also the UWP hierachy need to undertake a course of public relations to endear themselves to the public.
The Dominican electorate is way too clever to fall for negativity and hot air; and that is exactly what the UWP offered during the election campaign.
The plain facts are; the Labour party has been in government for 14 years and the country has spoken and has given Labour a clear and unequivocal mandate to govern for another five years.
If the country’s affairs was being managed so appallingly as everyone was being led to believe by the UWP, then surely they would have lost the election wouldn’t they????
Now Labour must be relentless in their efforts to continue driving the country forward over the next five years.
Too Much Borbol
You couldn’t have said it better. The trips overseas to paint Dominica as the worst place on earth were particularly appalling. I don’t even want to remember the names that Dominican citizens were called during that process, then you come back to the same citizens and ask them for their votes as if they have no brain to analyse these things.
I can understand Dr. Thompson Fontaine’s desperate fight to grab that seat because from everything I hear that might just be his lifeline.
WE have not lost anything. We voted for change in Senjo and Dominica in general. Did we get the change we had hoped for? The answer unfortunately is an unapologetic, NO. We, and I say, WE because Dominica did indeed vote for change. We shouldn’t be coy in saying that the the election was taken from us over a year ago.This election wasn’t taken on the 8th. of December, 2014. It was taken when operatives around the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and the United States were given the mandate to galvanize supporters of the Ruling Party living in the diaspora to make up their quota for every constituency in which they knew they were in trouble.
As a citizen from the St. Joseph constituency, I counted over five hundred new faces in the village. There were faces I had not seen in three decades and some of the older ones I did not know were probably the faces of those we thought must have died forty or fifty years ago which was still on the voters list. So, the question is: did the UWP candidate lose the contest in Senjo? You be the judge of that.
According to the official results, the UWP candidate, My Parliamentary Representative, only had a deficit of 268 votes compared to the other candidate who had a count of over one 100 of his relatives and 400 others who came from all over the globe to put him over the top. Walking through Mero I saw faces that I knew who were gone for over 20 years who were also recruited in New Jersey for that sole purpose.
The election should be contested on the ground in Dominica not on chartered flights from the US main land or on the ferry from Martinique or Guadeloupe or on Hummingbird Air nor Liat. Why after 36 years of independence for a supposedly democratic country should a political party which has been in control of the government for past 15 of those 36 years go to such length to deny me the change I believe was necessary in order for the country I love to move forward? After 15 years of control any party, or for that matter any government, which cannot go to the people and ask them for an extension to allow them to govern has already failed. Anyone, be it government or individual, who has to take extreme measures to maintain control should not be trusted with power.
However, to you my very talented and gifted PAL REP, don’t lose heart. You were denied the win this time but you day is coming. You are a formidable woman. You are young and you are admired by many. For the many years I have been alive you and your leader are the ones who inspired me to become an active participant in the electoral process.
So stay focus, tread carefully and avoid missteps and I can assure you that your future will be golden.
Remember, UWP TEAM DOMINICA did not lose. they were just denied the opportunity to govern this time around.
This long winded CHIM CHIM BWA SHESH assumption you have made with regards to your perceived reasons why the UWP lost the election.
Can I ask you?? Are you suggesting this level of malpractice that you have alleged took place in St. Joseph; Were these alleged malpractices prevailant at all the 15 constituencies where Labour have won???
And If dark forces of the government were so much at work as you have alleged; how come they fail to secure victory at 3 of the 4 Roseau constituencies.
You should look at your party’s shortcomings and their failure to connect with the electorate and stop looking for silly and ridiculous excuses.
You are a bad loser and your comments smacks of sour grapes and an insult to the majority of the electorate who voted for the party they felt was best suited to drive the country forward.
Boss Really…. Let not mix apple an oranges shall we.. Let us stick to the facts. What kind of dumb question is that “Were these alleged malpractices prevailant at the all the 15 Contituencies where labor won” ? Absolutely Yes.. They would have no effect in the labor strong holds , I am sure you know where they are, and they would have little or no effect in the UWP Strong holds.. In the areas where there had no effect these are the areas which is populated with middle class, and public servants .. they only work in the poor and vulnerable constituencies of Dominica. So please.. Stop defending and making baseless argument. You all know what wnet down…. Geeze!
@NEGfuSENJO, is that all how comes you did not see D JC fr New Jersy living away for 30 years and all the others they came to vote for yr party. How comes you didn’t see the boat load fr Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Martin and eleswhere. Where were you? thou hippocrite take out the bean fr yr eyes then point yr fingers at the DLP. You saw faces in Mero you did not see for 20 to 30 years, you lie these ppl were in Dominica last year and they spend chirstmas in Dominica. You saw a lady she travels to Dominica every month cuz she always there doing business. How comes you didn’t see those fr Mero who came to vote fr yr party, where were you? you saw a man a tall man fr MERO he was there last year he came to spend chirstmas with his family. you forgot to talk about the lady fr St. JOE SHE CARRIED YR PARTY TICKETS TO GUADELOUPE, oh la ou tae yeah well put on yr glasses you will see better next time
You saw a short lady she lives in Guadeloupe but she comes home every month, she renting a house Mero for 700 dollars. all these ppl fr Mero, so what is yr point.
Grandfond should have gone to UWP and sadly but toma should not worry his head, grand fond people did not appreciate their own enough. ville case did.
wow u r so dang rite…..he even left Vielle case to make sure gf people do not recognize their own on election day
If the UWP take a leaf from Joshua Francis book and behave as he did, a good man an honest man, a man who responds to people Joshua Francis and Joseph Isaac did the personal touch thing, people responded to them also Danny Lugay they won on the personal touch, so from now on the rest of the UWP team must develop that personal touch, with the electorate. Spraggs ,Joshua Isaac and Danny an Ezekiel Bazil won because they were loved by the people, Lennox won his seat because it wa a safe seat in Marigot. The UWP have to consider these factors when they next meet, Stop seeing the UWP as a Marigot party which need a marigot leader think Dominica, think who will the rest of Dominica respond to as leader. Lennox is not a peoples person and his concession speech was unstatesmanlike no thanks just more of the same whining in stead of recognizing how well they had done and the support of the people who voted for him. If all you want to be in power in 5yrs time change the leadership. Appoint someone that all of Dominica can relate too.
you will not dictate UWP agenda
Are you SERIOUS? Someone all of Dominica can relate to. Who are you to give advice? Did Mr.Mr Skerrit ask for it? Mr. Linton sure doesn’t need it.
Lennox Made no Concession Speech! Where is it? He simple responded to a phone call from a radio talk show… Lennox will not make any concession speech to uphold the fraud. Never!… The fight continues.
Untold stories
It is supporters like you he does not need!
My lady I agree with you 110% Lennox is a problem for uwp. I would suggest they put Joshua Francis as leader ASAP. Lennox is clearly not liked by Dominicans and as you said only won his seat because it’s already a uwp stronghold. Change your leader if you want change.
this is so true. i must admit team dominica had some good candidates, however with lennox linton at the helm of this party i could never ever vote for that party. the only way i could ever vote for that party again is if the party leader is changed.lennox linton will never get a vote from me. congrats to joshua francis and the other successful UWP candidates.
Joshua Francis will be the best leader because people are drawn to him because of his warmth.
Were the voting pencils from China? They were very inferior. They were like pens without ink.
Grand fond is workers own…..
Take it nuh!!!! cry cry baby
This is not a joke. A PM committing illegal acts on election day? Really? No law….no constitution. This is real serious.
One thing that stood out was the margin of victory in the various constituencies. Of the 15 that DLP won, 13 were by 10% or more. Of the 6 that UWP won, 3 were by a margin of more than 10%. The others 3 were marginal.
UWP has made tremendous strides on a per sea basis, but there is a lot of work to be done. There is a lot of analysis to be done. I would not advise them to adopt the same strategy that they employed before – the long drawn out court challenges and boycotting parliament. I don’t think these were effective.
They need to start engaging the constituents from today. They need to start working on their team for the next election and get these people on the ground, building their names in the community. Getting involved and organizing all kinds of community events. They have to be recognized as representatives of the people.
Also although it may not come naturally to Lennox, he needs to consult an image consultant. This is not meant as a put down, but he needs to connect better with the people.
Like him or not, Skerrit has done a masterful job of that. He is the face of the party. People may not as much as vote their parl rep, but a lot sure did vote for “Skerrit”. He needs to present himself as a warmer person, someone that people can easily relate to.
When all is said and done, we are all Dominicans and we must all work for the betterments of our country.
the UWP members and supporters are not voting for a nice face but a geniune and sincere heart
I totally agree with this “Also although it may not come naturally to Lennox, he needs to consult an image consultant. This is not meant as a put down, but he needs to connect better with the people.
Like him or not, Skerrit has done a masterful job of that. He is the face of the party. People may not as much as vote their parl rep, but a lot sure did vote for “Skerrit”. He needs to present himself as a warmer person, someone that people can easily relate to. ”
And I am UWP Suppoter!
Perfectly said. Uwp supporters should demand a change of leader. Joshua Francis would make a better leader. He’s likable and connect to the people. Lennox must be changed ASAP.
Thor,
Thanks
It is supporters like you he needs! Your advice should be helpful in helping him present a better image to the public and contribute to more support, not those who encourage him to continue to be angry and offensive and always in battle mode!
UWP up and coming would-be stars were rejected at the polls. Big degrees don’t count in D/ca politics. What an embarrassment for both economists.
Morne Jaune
Ivor Stephenson-DLP 617
Thompson Fontaine-UWP 605 (Defeated)
Salybia
Cassius Darroux-DLP 1146
Claudius Sanford-UWP 729 (Defeated)
Morne Juane Defeate? Right.. Watch this space..
Salybia Defeated with massive bribery even on the day of election!
No of these seats were won faily…. one will be over turned..
Therefore, when we hear the DLP bellowing for fourteen months, education should be the major consideration when electing someone to represent you, they were wrong. They were trying to confuse the voters.
Congratulations to both sides.
To Lennox special congratulations you have done extremly well as a first time batter, you have rised with the standard of politic in the history of Dominica, hurray,dont worry Skerritt is trembling now we have a very strong opposition, dont allow them to fustrate you in the House just stay there and do what you have to do, remember miss Charles went through it and won when the time was ready. God is in control, congrates to the other UWP candidates especially Danny and Francis who Jay bless no man curse. The election was bought with money , materials and diaspora votes Lone day they will pay for it also those who encourage such behaviour.I am listening and praying.Loreen brought in over a hundred plus diaspora voters people i never saw for over thirty years just to secure her job, God is good all the time.
Wow…Election was closer than what many people expected. I think if it was called next year Labour would have lost more seats. I think the diaspora vote made a difference in Morne jaune for sure but I always maintain I see nothing wrong in Dominicans coming down to vote. It is their right. Americans can vote from anywhere in the world so why not us.
And its not like Workers did not have overseas voters as well, maybe not as much but its the same thing. Lennox need to give the people some credit, we are not a foolish people. I don’t think the bribery labour tried worked..Dominican not fooled by two sheets of plywood again or 5 bags of cement. A lot of the older people still stick to their labour but the younger generation know better. I believe if workers had revved up their campaigning from long time, it would’ve worked in their favor.
Labour got a wake up call for sure, now lets see how they respond for the next five years.
These numbers confirm that the DLP would not have won without diaspora voters.
maybe….only in the morne jaune constituency.
Thank you dominica
On my way back to Boston, USA (labour Power) 
See u in 5. 
Yes, go back. Go where your salary is a million times ours and let us struggle our struggle to by a pound of sugar. Allu too Damn selfish.
thats right! i live in texas, however i have my house here,my land, my granny and other family. i pay taxes every month end, i pay vat, i send money to pay bills every month so I HAVE A RIGHT TO VOTE!!! i may live in the USA but i still contribute to my country. After paying bills, taxes etc for 5 years i see no reason why i cant get a ticket to come home to vote. i pay $3600.00 a year in taxes alone in DA $18,000.00 in five years so what is one ticket?
The election is over and now we can look back on the result . We can see how close the votes were, which leaves us to believe that the people that actually live in the country wanted change. Why did those who live out of Dominica had to put the government back in power and return to their safe haven? That is because they really dont care about the people and what they are going through. Just look at how close the votes were, it is clear that The party won because of the extra votes that came in from outside and not because the residents wanted them. The people were cryiny out for change but they were denied and thats very sad.
You must be kidding. I looked at the numbers and you cannot blame the diaspora given the margin of victory in some of those constituencies. Here are some of the figures for 10 constituencies where DLP won by huge margins:
Cottage – 83% to 15%
Colihaut – 76% to 24%
Ville Case – 85% to 15%
Mahaut – 55% to 45% (Blackmore won by 397 votes)
Paix Bouche – 80% to 20%
Salibia – 61% to 39%
Grandbay – 80% to 20%
Petite Savanne – 70% to 30%
Soufriere – 62% to 38%
Portsmouth 80% to 20%
You cannot attribute those margins to diaspora votes.
Skerrit ought not to have brought anybody down, but the UWP would be foolish to focus their attention on the diaspora. That is not where the fight is.
The colihaut and salybia had diaspora and intense bribes, the worst in History. 32 million in dispatched in various ways. That can sway most people. That’s why proplr go into drugs, the money is exciting!
Thor, you got the percentages right but there is one thing you fail to recognize. UWP only need 11 seats to form the government. The very eleven seats that you excluded are the seats where all the diaspora votes were planted and these were the constituencies that the Labour Party new they were losing.
Thor…… I like you analysis thus far but let it be comprehensive.
What are the margins for on the Laplaine, Morne Jaune, St. Joseph and Roseau Valley? These seat were all tip by the Diaspora votes therefore you need to keep the influence of the Diaspora…..because we are talking about 19% on the constitutional seats going to DLP were clearly due to he Diaspora vote.
19% constitutional seats swing by the diaspora is a high percentage when it comes to voting.
I must say for a Mahaut sit…Felix Thomas did very well even if we know is Blackmoore own.
Were you in Castle Bruce? Don’t expose your ignorance (Pm say that , not me).
Add Castle Bruce to, the amount of voters increase by only 32 since the time loreen bannis of the UWP was elected in 2005.
As usual like stupid people you’ll DUMINICANS like to talk about what you’ll don’t know about. Do you know that UWP also had people come in to vote. Hundreds came in from Guadeloupe especially
if they came they paid their own passage.Skerrit gave tickets , bribes then .This is the issue.The constitution says no bribes.
U say things with no proof…we have hundreds of names with tickets being paid for
Total Lie… No one Voter was imported by the UWP.. Not only that I know for a Fact!… I also no that the party did not have money to campaign locally much less to improt voters.. Show the Proof!!!
Their haven is not gonna be safe, they sold their country for a few pieces of silver,JUDAs
Morne Jaune ,Laplaine ans St joseph were all diaspora votes otherwise uwp would have had 9 SEATS,Skerrit you AND Vince got those good,time will tell.Kelvar continue being a donkey,while your poor brothers continue to beg on the side of the road and remain the poorest.
So there was 150 diaspora in st Joe that voted for DLP..I can understand 50 but not 150
actually 250 diaspora
over 400 people were imported Friday. Saturday Sunday and even Monday had more importees. You can immage what a difference over one 1507 people could make.
Grell
That would still give the DLP 12 seats. What’s your point?
Congratulations all!
Seems to me that except for Grand Fond, all the wins whether Labour or UWP were emphatic. Special congrats to Joshua Francis, seems a really nice young man and people responded to him.
The wins were so emphatic that those who are insisting that it was the diaspora votes that made the difference would have to explain how so many people got to come from overseas in spite of the intimidation and threats. I hope that the logic applied to the Labour wins is not also applied to those of the UWP. The wins were doubled in favour of UWP this time around on the same voters’ list and same conditions at the polling stations as applied to the labour party!
Guys, time to move on! Country time now! Continuing the accusations and hate talk won’t change a thing except the warm and loving relationships for which Dominica has been well known.
Peace!
Accusatons its all on paper stop your crap,the election was rigged,dominica is a corrupt state under the watch of SKerrit,all of a sudden he’s extending olive branch,to team dominica please stay in parliament,do not let skerrit intimidate you all he is the coward here.
Accusation my AZZZZZ i had 10 of them in my house sleeping on one another voting in st. jo, making jokes all week saying dominicans are a big joke and nobody can do nothing to dem cause they pm send for them. Next year alu better find a hotel.
@Barbara Saunders December 9, 2014 Well spoken! According to the saying–“I could not have said it better” Hehehehehehe!
@vote and vote December 9, 2014 I am baffled by your statement! Why did you accept those ten people in your house if you knew that they were not on your side. Or is you who live at their house?–Good heavens!