Guyanese legislative election, 2001
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General elections were held in Guyana
on 19 March. The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party
, which won 34 of the 65 seats. Voter turnout was 91.7%.
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
on 19 March. The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party
People's Progressive Party (Guyana)
The People's Progressive Party is a political party in Guyana led by Bharrat Jagdeo. The party has been in power since the 1992 elections and currently holds 36 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly.-History:...
, which won 34 of the 65 seats. Voter turnout was 91.7%.
Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Progressive Party People's Progressive Party (Guyana) The People's Progressive Party is a political party in Guyana led by Bharrat Jagdeo. The party has been in power since the 1992 elections and currently holds 36 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly.-History:... |
210,013 | 53.0 | 34 | |
| People's National Congress People's National Congress The People's National Congress is a socialist political party in Guyana led by Robert Corbin. The party currently holds 22 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly.-History:... |
165,866 | 41.8 | 27 | |
| Guyana Action Party Guyana Action Party The Guyana Action Party is a political party in Guyana.In the 2001 legislative elections, the party formed an alliance of the Guyana Action Party with the Working People's Alliance won 2.4 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 65 seats. In the 28 August 2006 elections the party allied itself with the... -Working People's Alliance Working People's Alliance -History:The party was established in 1974, as an alliance of the Working People's Vanguard Party, the Association for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon, and became a political party in 1989. The party first contested national... |
9,451 | 2.4 | 2 | |
| Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana is a political party in Guyana. It first contested national elections in 2001 when it received 0.9% of the vote and won a single seat. For the 2006 elections it formed an alliance with the Guyana Action Party, which received 1.2% of the vote and won one seat.-... |
3,695 | 0.9 | 1 | New |
| United Force The United Force The United Force is a conservative political party in Guyana. It currently has one seat in the National Assembly and is led by Manzoor Nadir.-History:... |
2,904 | 0.7 | 1 | 0 |
| Justice for All Party Justice for All Party Justice for All People is a political party in Guyana. It first contested national elections in 1997 when it received 0.3% of the vote and failed to win a seat. In the 2001 elections its share of the vote rose to 0.7%, but it remained without parliamentary representation. It did not contest the... |
2,825 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Guyana Democratic Party Guyana Democratic Party The Guyana Democratic Party was a political party in Guyana. It first contested national elections in 1997 when it received 0.6% of the vote and failed to win a seat. In 2000 it merged into the National Front Alliance but later withdrew. In the 2001 elections its share of the vote fell to 0.3% and... |
1,345 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| National Front Alliance National Front Alliance The National Front Alliance is a political party in Guyana. It was formed on 1 December 2000 as a merger of the Guyana Democratic Party, the National Democratic Movement, the National Republican Party and the People United Party, although the GDP and PUP later withdrew. It first contested national... |
417 | 0.1 | 0 | New |
| Invalid/blank votes | 7,218 | – | – | – |
| Total | 403,734 | 100 | 53 | +12 |
| Source: Nohlen | ||||