The PPP/C won the popular vote in Friday’s local government elections (LGE) capturing 25 000 more votes than the governing APNU+AFC under the proportional representation (PR) component of the polls.
Results provided by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) showed that countrywide, the PPP/C gained 123, 564 votes under the PR component of the elections compared to 98,670 for APNU+AFC. This is 24, 894 votes more than APNU+AFC.
The figures provided above are minus the results for the Good Hope/Pomona NDC for which GECOM had erroneously posted