A PNP supporter (left) and a supporter of the JLP express unity in the Church Hill section of Flanker in the St James North Western constituency last Thursday.
March 1, 2016
Election Day sights in the west
After weeks of campaigning by the two major political parties, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP), Jamaicans went to the polls last week Thursday to elect a new Government.
When the ballots were tallied, the JLP won a razor thin majority of 32 parliamentary seats, while the PNP retained 31 of the 42 it had won in the 2011 General Election.
In the western parishes of Trelawny, St James, Hanover and Westmoreland, where they were 12 seats up for grabs, both parties won six each.
The
Jamaica Observer West photographers were out across the western region covering the election day activities.
Today, we share some of those images they captured.
A group of JLP supporters celebrate in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, last Thursday night after their candidate, Marlene Malahoo Forte, defeated the PNP’s Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams in the St James West Central constituency.
The JLP candidate for Westmoreland Central George Wright (right) leaves the polling station at the Sir Clifford Campbell Primary School in Savanna-la-Mar last Thursday, after casting his ballot. Wright was defeated by the PNP’s Dwayne Vaz.
JLP supporters celebrate Dave ‘Spoon’ Brown’s victory over the PNP’s Wynter McIntosh in front of the Sandy Bay Court House on Thursday night.
PNP supporters celebrate the party’s victory in the constituency of Trelawny Northern in Water Square, Falmouth last Thursday night, after it was announced that the PNP’s Victor Wright defeated the JLP’s Dennis Meadows.
A young man (right) assists this 96-year-old woman to the polling station at Cornwall College in the St James Central constituency.
Members of the security forces patrol the streets of the Flanker community in the constituency of St James North West.Flanker was the scene of a shooting incident on Nomination Day, which left one person dead and several others injured.
Supporters of the JLP in the constituency of Trelawny South, in celebrating Marissa Dalrymple-Philibert’s emphatic win, hosted a mock funeral for beaten contender Lloyd Gillings of the PNP.Here, JLP supporters walk along a section of Albert Town in the constituency with a coffin bearing the ‘remains’ of Gillings.
