. . . People’s Partnership supporters celebrating
Counting ongoing in Trinidad at 22:45h
TRINIDAD EXPRESS – The seats are yet to be officially declared but supporters are already celebrating.
Thousands of supporters of the Peoples Partnership were converging on Rienzi Complex, Couva last night to celebrate with the Peoples Partnership a victory that was yet to be declared. Hundreds more were still streaming in and assembling in a parking lot adjacent to the party’s headquarters.
The mood was one of exuberance. Some supporters found their way to an area in the compound where the party’s elections officer Joe Sirju was updating the crowd, every new voting figure given answered with a roar.
UNC political leader Kamla Persad Bissessar was expected to arrive at the party’s headquarters at Rienzi Complex, Couva. She had spent the evening at her Siparia constituency office in Penal, where she declared victory in the general elections before leaving in a convoy of security vehicles.
A total of 1,040,011  persons were eligible to cast their ballot in yesterday’s general elections .
Sombre mood at Patrick Manning’s office.
Photojournalist Trevor Watson reported a sombre mood at the San Fernando East constituency office of Prime Minister Patrick Manning, where there were about forty people awaiting the arrival of their candidate.
Outside the office at Coffee Street, San Fernando is a stage with the a large screen streaming the elections result.
Supporters are awaiting the arrival of Manning, who was expected to  speak with them before heading to Baliser House.
Long before the crack of dawn, social networks – including Facebook and Twitter -were buzzing with excitement over yesterday’s general election.
People from across the country and even as far as Australia were calling on their friends to get to the polling stations early and vote.
Candidates had been using the sites to thank their supporters, urging them to get out to the polling stations early.
On Twitter, the public Web site where members post messages 140 characters or less, people were “tweeting” about the long lines at polling stations long before the doors were open, while others, like plateaujef55, called for calm: “Trinidad & Tobago general elections in the air. Pray they be incident free”.
One Trinidadian living abroad, KariWrites, tweeted “today is general elections day in #Trinidad. I wish those of us abroad could vote by absentee ballot”.