Grenada’s NDC wins 14 seats, giving Mitchell second term

Grenada’s National Democratic Congress won 14 of the country’s 15 parliamentary seats in the general election, giving Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell a second consecutive term, according to provisional results. The opposition New National Party won one seat. The figures have not yet been certified as final. The Parliamentary Elections Office’s provisional count gives the NDC 37,369 votes, or 61% of valid ballots, compared with 22,567 votes, or 36.8%, for the NNP. The results mark a larger seat majority for the NDC than in 2022, when it won nine seats to the NNP’s six. Turnout was 63.3%, with 61,460 ballots cast among 97,031 registered voters, according to the preliminary figures. That was below the approximately 70% turnout reported for the 2022 election. Mitchell won his St David constituency with 5,318 votes, compared with 2,138 for his NNP challenger. In St Andrew South East, Education Minister David Andrew defeated NNP leader Emmalin Pierre, 2,011 votes to 1,849. Pierre had narrowly won the constituency in 2022. The NNP’s sole seat was St George North West, where Adrian Joseph received 2,052 votes. The Democratic People’s Movement, led by former foreign affairs minister...