The leader of the opposition Dr. Grant Gibbons called for a reform of the Parliamentary Election Amendment Act.

The United Bermuda Party's Dr. Gibbons said the Parliamentary registrar needed to carry out a post-mortem of the election process to look at ways that the registration process could be run more fairly.

One of Dr. Gibbons' main concerns was that although, over 90 percent of voters were registered to vote, many were not registered in the constituencies were they now resided.

"When we are looking at the close wins in some constituencies - eight to a dozen voters - who voted in the wrong constituency could have made quite a difference to the outcome of the election," said Dr. Gibbons.

However, assistant parliamentary registrar Randy Scott said it was having a post-mortem of the election process, but that there was very little they could under the current Parliamentary Election Amendment Act, because the law does not give them the right to change details of registered voters.

"At present the onus of registering to vote in the proper constituency is up to the individual," said Mr. Scott.

"The law does not allow us to change the details of a registered voter - even if we know their details have changed."

Mr. Scott said the Parliamentary Registrar was compiling a report with all the returning officers, but that it would be for internal use only.

He added: "We will continue to use the standard method of encouraging the public to reregister each year, but that it would still be up to the individual as to whether or not they would update their details.

"Out of the 39,198 eligible voters and we had 99 percent who were registered to vote.

"It is up to the people to come forward. What can we do for someone who doesn't want to change their details, or vote?"

Dr. Gibbons added that the numbers would not have made much of a difference in the previous dual seat constituencies, but now the single seat constituencies are smaller with around 1,000 voters in each.