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General elections were held in Barbados on 21 February 2013. They were the first post-independence elections where the election date was announced five years after the last general election.[1] The ruling Democratic Labour Party was re-elected with a reduced majority, winning 16 of the 30 seats in the House of Assembly.[2]
- ^ Bradshaw, Maria (30 January 2013). "Experts: PM's timing curious". Nation Newspaper. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
"We knew that the Constitution and the law allowed him to call it after the five years had passed since the last election but it was the practice in Barbados and most of the Commonwealth that you would call the elections before the anniversary of the last election date.
- ^ "Barbados: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 2013". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 31 March 2021.