Team Gibbs wins first round

MARIGOT – With 49.2 percent of the vote, Team Daniel Gibbs booked a resounding victory in the first round if the territorial elections on Sunday. A distant second was Louis Mussington’s MJP (13.8 percent) followed by Alain Richardson’s MVP with 11.9 percent. These three parties will go into the second round of voting this upcoming Sunday. Voters wiped out the list of President Aline Hanson who won just 6.6 percent of the vote.

If these elections showed anything, it was a deep disinterest in politics by the electorate. Of the 20,276 eligible voters only 8,601 cast a vote (42.4 percent), while there were 277 invalid and blank votes. The total number of valid votes was 8,324 (41.05 percent) of all eligible voters.

The votes Team Daniel Gibbs won (4,096) represent 49.2 percent of the votes cast, but just 20.2 percent of all eligible voters.

The Hope Party of Jules Charville did relatively well, ending in fourth spot with 8.9 percent of the vote, ahead for instance of Aline Hanson’s Continuons pour Saint Martin.

These are the results of the first round with between brackets the percentages: 1. Team Daniel Gibbs 4,096 (49.2), 2. Movement for Justice and Prosperity (MJP) 1,152 (13.8), 3. En Marche Vers le Progrès (MVP) 990 (11.9), 4. Hope Party 737 (8.9), 5. Continuons pour Saint Martin 548 (6.6), 6. Mocsam 409 (4.9), 7. New Direction 229 (2.8) and 8. Soualiga Movement 163 (2).