PPP/C leading APNU+AFC by over 18,000 votes

With just about 80% of ballot boxes tabulated the People’s Progressive Party/Civic leads the APNU+AFC Coalition by more than 18,000 votes at the General Elections.

According to the tabulation figures published by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) at the end of day 28 a total of 1,869 General Statements of Recount (SORs) and 1,858 Regional SORs have been recorded including the complete count for Districts One, Two, Three, Five, Seven, Eight and Nine.

These SORs show a total of 162,557 votes for the incumbent APNU+AFC compared to 180,732 votes for the PPP/C. The six other parties which contested the General Elections have so far secured a combined total of 7,073 of the votes cast.

The largest sub-set of this remainder has been secured by two of the three parties which are part of the “joinder list”. Specifically, the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) has secured 2,372 votes while A New United Guyana (ANUG) has secured 1,726 votes.

There are 470 boxes still to be tabulated of these 405 are in District Four, 48 in District Six and 37 in District 10.

Meanwhile, the 12 counting stations operating at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) managed to process 93 ballot boxes yesterday. The total number of recounted boxes stands at 1,929.

At the current rate of counting the remaining 410 boxes should be fully counted by Sunday June 7 leaving the tabulation centre and Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield with six days to complete the recount report before its June 13 submission deadline.