Type: | parliamentary |
Country: | Antigua and Barbuda |
Election Date: | 9 March 1989 |
Previous Year: | 1984 |
Next Year: | 1994 |
Seats For Election: | All 17 seats in the House of Representatives |
Majority Seats: | 9 |
Turnout: | 60.72% (0.40pp) |
Outgoing Members: | 8th legislature of Antigua and Barbuda#Members |
Elected Members: | 9th legislature of Antigua and Barbuda#Members |
Image1: | Vere Bird (cropped).jpg |
Leader1: | Vere Bird |
Party1: | ALP |
Seats1: | 15 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 14,207 |
Percentage1: | 63.85% |
Swing1: | 4.05pp |
Leader2: | Baldwin Spencer |
Party2: | UNDP |
Colour2: | 3C5D93 |
Seats2: | 1 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 6,889 |
Percentage2: | 30.96% |
Swing2: | 30.96pp |
Leader3: | Hilbourne Frank |
Image3: | 3x4.svg |
Party3: | BPM |
Seats3: | 1 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 304 |
Percentage3: | 1.37% |
Swing3: | 1.37pp |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent Prime Minister |
Before Election: | Vere Bird |
Before Party: | ALP |
After Election: | Vere Bird |
After Party: | ALP |
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 9 March 1989,[1] the second after it had become an independent Commonwealth realm. The elections were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party (ALP), whose leader Vere Bird was reelected as Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 60.7%.[1]
This was Bird's eighth and final election victory. He resigned as Prime Minister in 1994, just before the subsequent general elections. Bird was replaced by his son, Lester Bird, the long-time party chairman.