Like the rest of 2020, yesterday's general elections was unprecedented. Despite a pandemic, and floodwaters in some areas that still have not receded, an impressive 82% of voters came out to exercise their right.
And 58% of those voters chose blue as PUP won 26 out of 31 seats, leaving the UDP with only five seats with 38% of all ballots cast.
Statistically, this is a bigger swing than in 2008 when the UDP routed the PUP. In that election PUP managed to get 40% of the total vote; in this election the UDP got only 38%.
In 2008, when it won 26 seats, the UDP won 56% of the vote, yesterday the PUP got 58%.
In post-independence history, that mark is bested only by the PUP in 1998 when it routed the UDP 26 to 3 and got 59% of the vote.
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