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A whole host of household names fell to the PLP chopping axe last night.
Among the big names to fall were Labour and Home Affairs Minister Maxwell Burgess, Health Minister Wayne Furbert and Deputy Premier Jerome Dill.
And joining them in the politica...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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The United Bermuda Party was left licking its wounds last night and contemplating life in the immediate future as the Opposition.
Thirty odd years of reign as Bermuda's Government came to a close as the Progressive Labour Party seized 26 of the 40 av...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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casts her ballot in Warwick West.
AREN'T YOU A BIT YOUNG FOR THIS? -- P.c. John Lynch-Wade advises Tanaya Taylor, seven, that she can't vote at Devonshire North polling station for another 11 years.
NORTHERN EXPOSURE -- National Liberal Party chief C...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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The defending pair romped home streets ahead of the opposition, with Dr.
Gibbons topping the poll with 855 votes.
Mrs. Young came in just behind with 840 votes, while Mr. Scott picked up 127 votes.
Dr. Gibbons said minutes after the vote was announce...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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South, David Burch, leaped into the number two spot early in the General Election count and trailed just behind UBP veteran C.V. (Jim) Woolridge. It also stated that UBP MP Trevor Moniz crept up, winning second place by just 20 votes.
But Mr. Burch w...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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But the wait for election results was long for party faithful.
Despite having only 1,661 registered votes, the final count did not reach the ecstatic ears of an overwhelmingly PLP crowd until almost midnight.
Only a handful of dedicated voters were l...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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And the message to the three challengers was quite clear as Jennifer Smith topped the polls with 773 votes and her first-time running mate Delaey Robinson came in second on 693, 150 votes more than Kim Swan of the UBP in third place.
Swan colleague R...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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in past elections.
The margins between the victors in this split-seat constituency in the last election had been slim with fewer than 70 votes between the four major candidates.
Former UBP senior statesman Irving Pearman topped the polls in the 1993 ...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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The Progressive Labour Party, the seemingly eternal bridesmaid of Bermudian politics, at last got to the altar with the local electorate last night, scoring a handy -- and historic -- victory against the United Bermuda Party.
The two party platforms ...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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The Progressive Labour Party last night made history -- and ended 30 years of UBP rule with a crushing 26-14 landslide and 54 percent of the national vote.
A wave of emotion swamped the UBP's strategy of stressing the economy and the fragility of the...
DATE: Nov 10, 1998
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
