WITH the recount and tabulation completed for sub-district Four of District Four, the party which requested the recount, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has come out with fewer votes than originally declared.

The original declaration for District Four, made just two days after the September 1 Election, put the APNU at 46,956 votes. However, the recount, which concluded on Friday, showed that they received 46,949 votes, seven votes shy of the original declaration.
In that Region, the APNU came in second behind the PPP/C following the first declaration

Meanwhile, as the tabulation wrapped up for Region Five, in the General election, the APNU’s votes also decreased.
The original declaration had put the PNC-led coalition at 6,480 votes, but the recount showed that they had received 6,477 votes, decreasing by three votes.
The APNU had requested a recount in sub-district four of District Four and subsequently requested a recount for District Five as well.
Meanwhile, the recount had also shown that the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) ‘s votes increased in District Four, with the addition of some seven more votes, moving them to 2,431.
The incumbent People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) also gained two more votes for district four, moving them up to 87,538 votes for that district.
After requesting a recount, just as the process was coming to an end, APNU’s leader, Aubrey Norton, had written to the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, asking for a forensic audit and the aborting of the 2025 electoral process.

GECOM Chair, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh reminded that Guyana’s constitution stipulates that the High Court holds jurisdiction and added that the claims made would fall under the purview of the same by way of an election petition.