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Newcomer Randolph Horton topped the poll for the Progressive Labour Party with 790 votes while partner Arthur Hodgson was returned to Parliament after placing second with 773.
The UBP team of Wayne Furbert and Maxwell Burgess were over a hundred vote...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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coming a close second with 1,021.
With a PLP victory already looming on the horizon by the time the constituency's final count was completed, Mr. Barritt offered a low-key reaction to his own personal success.
"Any joy and satisfaction I feel with Mr...
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A steady stream of Southampton East voters arrived right from the start with about 50 going through in the first hour.
At the final tally Mr. Burrows and Mr. Lowe grabbed 70 percent of the total votes cast, defeating United Bermuda Party hopefuls Ray...
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Mr. James, who is president of the Bermuda Cricket Board of Control, topped the poll with nearly 1,200 votes, a victory predicted by his running mate -- and they were both more than 300 votes clear of their UBP opponents Quinton Edness and Yvette Swa...
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That was the unequivocal message on Court Street early this morning as thousands of Bermudians gathered for a party which seemed likely to last well into the balance of the week.
"This is not like the Bermuda I know,'' said Stoney of reggae band Thir...
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Jubilant scenes on Court Street marked the PLP's historic sweep into power -- with the winning party's MPs promising the "best Government ever''.
Thousands of supporters packed into the street to hear the victory speech of Premier-in-waiting Jennifer...
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30-year-old government. And they have put into the equation the issue of the race card. They were saying that it was time for a black government and not acknowledging that there are blacks in the UBP government.
"And that is the UBP concern, the issu...
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Having won convincingly in recent by-elections and with PLP candidate Rodney Smith having to pull out of the race following a housing scandal, both Mr.
Adderley and Mr. Pitman were, not surprisingly, in bullish moods as the polls closed. But they wer...
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Mr. Lister received 1,304 votes, beating his uncle Walter Lister -- who has represented the area since 1976 -- by 19 votes.
"The people have spoken and I respect their decision,'' Walter Lister told The Royal Gazette shortly after the final count was...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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The National Liberal Party was left to rue a second consecutive crushing General Election defeat last night.
But party chairman Charles Jeffers, who finished at the bottom of the polls in Smith's North with 201 votes, said he felt the election had of...
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