KINGSTON, Jamaica — The pollsters are back from the field. Listen to Nationwide@five today for the Portland Eastern results and read details in your Jamaica Observer tomorrow morning.

The poll results come ahead of Thursday’s by-election triggered by the death of People’s National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern Dr Lynvale Bloomfield in February.

The second-term MP was found dead in his Passley Gardens home in the constituency on February 2 with more than 20 stab wounds. No one has been arrested for the killing.

The People’s National Party (PNP) announced businessman and former St Andrew East Rural MP Damion Crawford as Bloomfield’s replacement for what is considered the party’s safe seat.

Crawford is tussling with the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLPs) Ann Marie Vaz — wife of minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation and Portland Western MP Daryl Vaz — for the seat the PNP has steadily won for several years and which was last represented in Parliament by a JLP MP in 1980.