THE People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has secured 75 seats across Region Five with the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) acquiring 57 at the recently concluded Local Government Elections (LGEs).

According to preliminary results released by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), the PPP/C received enough votes to secure 39 seats through the Proportional Representation (PR) component and 36 from the system of First Past the Post (FPTP). APNU however copped 29 from PR and 28 from the system of FPTP.

Guyana’s two major political parties dominated this region and left the Alliance For Change (AFC) with only one seat. Few independent candidates also made their mark.

In the Woodlands/Farm LAA, APNU took four seats from the Proportional Representation (PR) component while the PPP/C trailed with three. These figures remained the same in the First Past the Post (FPTP) system where APNU candidates won Constituencies Four, Five, Six and Seven. The PPP/C won Constituencies One to Three.

In Hamlet/ Chance, the three constituencies were won by APNU candidates; and candidates from the party won in the FPTP component as well, with Marlon Mc Rae (Constituency 1) and Marcia Richmond (Constituency 2) uncontested.

The Profit/Rising Sun LAA seemed to have deviated from the ‘Big Party’ hold of the PPP/C and APNU, with independent candidates winning in four of the six constituencies. The remaining two were split by the two dominant parties, while these two parties split the PR seats five/one, in favour of APNU.

The PPP/C eased past the APNU candidates in Mahaicony/ Abary, with five PR seats as against APNU’s three. This was the exact opposite in the Seafield/ Tempie LAA, where APNU copped five seats and the PPP/C three.

The only seat won by the AFC was in the Union/Naarstigheid LAA. The party however failed to capture a constituency through the FPTP component. The remaining eight seats were split evenly between the PPP/C and the APNU, but the APNU captured six constituencies while the PPP/C barely mustered two. Independent candidate Leslyn Charles Edwards won in Constituency Nine: Union/ Naarstigheid.

Bath/Woodley Park was an evident PPP/C stronghold, with the party winning all nine seats (with five going uncontested) and its candidates winning in all nine constituencies. In the Woodlands/Bel Air LAA, the PR votes and FPTP candidates who won were split evenly between these two parties, with each gaining four positions.

In Zeelust/ Rosignol, the PR seats were split among the two — six/two — in favour of the PPP/C, but the PPP/C won in seven of the eight constituencies.

And in the final LAA for Region Five, Blairmont/Gelderland, PPP/C got six of the seven PR seats. APNU claimed the remaining seat, but two of its candidates won constituencies; the five remaining constituencies were won by PPP/C candidates.