Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell secured the St David seat with 5,318 votes, defeating New National Party (NNP) candidate Noleen Roxanne James Thompson, who received 2,138 votes. The result confirms the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is on track to win at least 14 of the 15 seats in Parliament, following an early election called by Mitchell before the 2027 constitutional deadline. In St Andrew South East, NNP leader Emmalin Pierre, who had campaigned to become Grenada’s first woman prime minister, lost her seat to Education Minister David Andrew. Pierre polled 1,849 votes to Andrew’s 2,011. Shirley McQueen of the Democratic People’s Movement (DPM) received 19 votes. The NNP’s sole victory came in St George North West, where Tawfiq Adrian Marlan Joseph won 2,052 votes against 89 for the NDC challenger and 69 for the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate. Former foreign‑affairs minister Peter David lost the Town of St George’s seat, which he had held since 2003, to Attorney‑General Claudette Joseph. David received 730 votes, Joseph 1,269, and the NNP candidate 536. The DPM, which fielded nine candidates nationwide, failed to win any seats. Other parties—including the Grenada United Labour Party (GULP), the PNP, the Grenada Social Democratic Party, the Grenada Renaissance Party and the Change of Hope for Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique—did not
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