–following the recount requested by the coalition

WITH the recount and tabulation completed for Sub-District Four of District Four and District Five, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), which requested the recounts, have come out with fewer votes than originally declared.

Just two days after declarations were made for all 10 electoral districts, the People’s National Congress (PNC)-led coalition had requested a recount in sub-district four (East Coast Demerara) after the declarations showed that the party suffered a substantial loss at the elections.
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, and at that time had secured just 25.9 per cent of the votes cast for that region.
Region Four, Guyana’s largest and most politically influential district, delivered a historic outcome in these elections.
For the first time in the country’s political history, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) secured victory in the stronghold long dominated by the People’s National Congress (PNC) and its successor coalition, APNU.

That recount also showed that the votes had decreased for the Alliance For Change (AFC) while votes increased for the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) and the PPP/C.
Meanwhile, for Region Five, in the General election, the APNU’s votes also decreased. The original declaration had put the coalition at 6,480 votes, but the recount showed that they had received 6,477 votes, decreasing by three votes.

During the recount, votes in a total of 468 ballot boxes were recounted, some 391 from Sub-district Four of District Four and 77 from District Five. The process, which began on September 4 at 8:00 hrs concluded around 22:30 hrs on Friday night.

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 Chairman, 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.