–Dr. Jagdeo points out that PPP’s votes in Reg. 4 increased by 6,000; says WIN eroded APNU’s support

PEOPLE’S Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, using statistics, has shown how his party strengthened its grip in Guyana’s most populous region, picking up more than 6,000 additional votes in Region Four.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday at Freedom House, the General Secretary said that across all of Guyana’s 10 administrative regions, both international and local observers confirmed that the polls were, free, fair, and peaceful.

“Every international observer group that has witnessed the polls in Guyana have concluded that elections were peaceful and free and fair. The process they concluded was a transparent one although cumbersome in the count, but they recognise that was because of the thoroughness of the process.

“The count was done openly and observed by the international and local observers, and it was done in the presence of the political agents from all the political parties, the polling agents. The statements of poll were all concluded and signed on to by the presiding officers and the polling agents for all the political parties” he said.

Speaking on the “landslide” victory in the 2025 elections, he pointed out that the PPP/C secured 55.32 per cent of the votes, compared to the combined opposition’s 44.68 per cent— a margin of 10.6 percentage points.

In the 2020 elections, the PPP/C edged the opposition by less than one per cent, which was 6,390 votes.

This year, the PPP/C got more than 46,513 more than the combined opposition.

Dr. Jagdeo described the new results as “a landslide by any standard,” pointing to the large margin between the PPP/C and the other political parties combined.

Although, historically Region Four is an opposition stronghold, Dr. Jagdeo pointed to the significant collapse as the combined opposition’s vote share in the region dropped sharply.

The suggestion by APNU Leader Aubrey Norton that the results are implausible is “utter nonsense,” he said, adding that opposition votes had splintered, with new parties like U.S.-sanctioned Azruddin Mohamed’s political outfit, We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) eroding the APNU’s support base.

Meanwhile, the PPP/C managed to increase its support by over 6,000 votes with Dr. Jagdeo pointing out that the party got 87,536 votes in this year’s polls for Region Four.
The PNC-led APNU got 46,956 votes in this region compared to 116,941 votes in 2020. In 2020, PPP got 80,920 votes.

The other parties: Forward Guyana Movement got 2,431 votes in the region, while the Alliance For Change got 1,765, and the Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity got 497.

In Region Ten, traditionally dominated by the APNU, the PPP/C also recorded gains, moving from 13 per cent of the vote in 2020 to nearly 20 per cent this year.

According to the data released in Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’d declarations, the PPP/C captured wins in Regions One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Eight and Nine.

With victories in eight regions, the incumbent was able to secure some 55.3 per cent of all valid votes cast in the country, amounting to over 242,000 votes. These votes, tallied using the data gathered from the declarations published, put the PPP/C ahead by 133,432 votes.