SLP’s landslide election victory

Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) won a landslide victory in the 2021 general elections.

Preliminary results declared the SLP has won 13 seats, the United Workers Party (UWP) won 2 seats and the last 2 seats went to independent candidates Richard Frederick and Stephenson King.

Frederick is a self-proclaimed ‘Independent Labour candidate’ while King recently departed from the UWP. SLP did not field candidates in two constituencies.

In the 2016 general election, the UWP won 11 of the 17 seats with the SLP winning 6 seats.

SLP also created history in Micoud North with the youngest candidate in the general elections, Jeremiah Norbert, to win a seat long held by the UWP.

Party leader and Prime Minister-elect Phillip J.Pierre thanked and encouraged Saint Lucians to be as one.

Meanwhile, former Prime Minister and UWP leader, Allen Chastanet has not yet issued any statement about the results of the general elections. Chastanet won the seat for Micoud South.

The CARICOM Election Observation Mission, led by Ms Fern Narcis-Scope, was present on grounds to monitor the electorate process.