2003

PLP 22 seats

UBP 14 seats

1998

PLP 26 seats

UBP 14 seats

29,516

Number of registered voters who took part in the 2003 Election, compared to 29,638 who took part in 1998.

75.06%

Percentage turnout of eligible voters compared to 81.4 percent in 1998. On votes counted, turnout was 74.95%.

15,222

Number of votes cast for the PLP.

14,142

Number of votes cast for the UBP.

108

Total number of votes cast for the National Liberal Party candidate Graeme Outerbridge, the Gombey Liberation Party's Gavin Smith and Independent Stuart Hayward.

51.65%

Percentage of votes cast for the PLP, compared to 54.22% in 1998.

47.98%

Percentage of votes cast for the UBP, compared to 44.07 percent in 1998.

30/6

Number of blacks and whites elected to the House of Assembly, compared to 30 and 10 in 1998.

8

Number of women elected to the House of Assembly, the same number as 2003.

5

Incumbents who lost their seats, compared to 6 in 1998.

8

MPs elected to the House of Assembly for the first time, compared to 15 in 1998.

762

Number of votes polled by UBP Leader Grant Gibbons, the highest number cast for a single candidate.

91.34%

Percentage of votes cast for the PLP's Nelson Bascome, the highest for any single candidate.

16

Number of votes cast for the GLP's Gavin Smith in St. George's North, the lowest by any candidate -- but twice the margin of victory of Premier Jennifer Smith in the constituency (see below).

8

Closest margin on Election night, shared by Premier Jennifer Smith and the PLP's Renee Webb, who defeated the UBP's Kenneth Bascome and Tim Smith in St. George's North and St. George's South respectively.