Antigua: Over 60,000 people eligible to vote in Jan 18 election
The Antigua and Barbuda Election Commission (ABEC) has confirmed that 60,916 people are eligible to vote in tomorrow’s General election.
ABEC’s Public Relations Office Elisa Graham confirmed the figure in an interview with Loop Caribbean News.
Graham said ABEC has increased the number of polling stations to 188 across the 17 constituencies to serve the electorate and make the process easy.
“We anticipate that quite many persons will utilise those polling stations because they are going to be spaced out. We will have two voting areas within each respective booth. [And] we do not anticipate any long lines,” she said.
The full breakdown of the electorate by constituency is as follows:
St John City West: 3,053
St John City East: 2,166
St John City South: 2,060
St John’s Rural West: 5,440
St John’s Rural South: 3910
St John’s Rural East: 5,004
St John’s Rural North: 4,187
St Mary’s North: 5,171
St Mary’s South: 2,588
All Saint’s East and St Luke: 4,128
All Saint’s West: 5,021
St George: 5,883
St Peters: 4,609
St Philip North: 1,876
St Philip South: 1,258
St Paul: 3,281
Barbuda: 1,281
There are 53 candidates in the election.
The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party has fielded 17 candidates, while the United Progressive Party and Democratic National Alliance have each nominated 16 candidates.
The Barbuda People's Movement’s lone representative, Trevor Walker, and three independent candidates remain on the ballot.
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