1990 British Virgin Islands general election

1990 British Virgin Islands general election

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All seats in the British Virgin Islands Legislative Council
5 seats needed for a majority
Turnout70.69%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Omar Hodge
Party VIP IPM
Leader's seat 1st District 6th District
Last election 45.7%, 6 seats
Seats won 6 1
Seat change Steady New
Popular vote 2,409 723
Percentage 46.6% 14.0%
Swing Increase 0.9pp New

Chief Minister before election

Lavity Stoutt
Virgin Islands Party

Elected Chief Minister

Lavity Stoutt
Virgin Islands Party

General elections were held in the British Virgin Islands on 12 November 1990.[1] The result was a decisive victory for the incumbent Virgin Islands Party (VIP) led by Chief Minister Hamilton Lavity Stoutt. Three other parties contested the election: the BVI United Party (UP) led by Conrad Maduro (which fielded six candidates), the newly formed Progressive People's Democratic Party (PPDP) led by former Chief Minister Willard Wheatley (which fielded five candidates), and the newly formed Independent People's Movement (IPM) which fielded only two candidates. The only candidate from a party other than the VIP to be elected was Omar Hodge of the IPM in the Sixth District (Omar Hodge was a former member of the VIP and would later rejoin that party). Independent candidates won in the Fourth and Fifth Districts, and the VIP won every other available seat.

The supervisor of elections was Eugenie Todman-Smith.[1] The turnout was 69.4%. In the individual seats, turnout was highest in the 9th District (91.1%), a record for district turnout in the British Virgin Islands. The turnout was so high that the losing candidate in the 9th District (Allen O'Neal) actually secured more votes than the victorious candidate in every other district except for Lavity Stoutt in the 1st.

  1. ^ a b "BVI election and information results 1950–2011" (PDF). BVI Deputy Governor's Office. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2014.