Election Name: | 2020 St George North constituency by-election |
Type: | by-election |
Country: | Barbados |
Turnout: | 47.97% (18.74pp) |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2018 Barbadian general election |
Previous Year: | 2018 |
Next Election: | 2022 Barbadian general election |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Election Date: | 11 November 2020 |
Candidate1: | Toni Moore |
Image1: | Toni Moore BWU 2021.png |
Party1: | Barbados Labour Party |
Popular Vote1: | 3,154 |
Percentage1: | 66.60% |
Candidate2: | Floyd Reifer |
Party2: | Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) |
Popular Vote2: | 1,327 |
Percentage2: | 28.02% |
Swing2: | New party |
Candidate3: | Grenville Phillips II |
Image3: | SB |
Party3: | Solutions Barbados |
Popular Vote3: | 95 |
Percentage3: | 2.01% |
Candidate5: | Ambrose Grosvenor |
Image5: | UPP |
Party5: | United Progressive Party (Barbados) |
Popular Vote5: | 70 |
Percentage5: | 1.48% |
Candidate6: | Alex Mitchell |
Image6: | BFP |
Party6: | Bajan Free Party |
Popular Vote6: | 10 |
Percentage6: | 0.21% |
Candidate4: | David Walrond |
Image4: | PdP |
Party4: | People's Party for Democracy and Development |
Popular Vote4: | 80 |
Percentage4: | 1.69% |
Swing4: | --> |
Map Size: | 250px |
MP | |
Before Election: | Gline Clarke |
Before Party: | BLP |
After Election: | Toni Moore |
After Party: | BLP |
A by-election was held in the Barbadian constituency of St George North on November 11, 2020 following the resignation of incumbent BLP Member of Parliament Gline Clarke, who has represented the constituency for the past 26 years, to accept the post of Barbados High Commissioner to Canada. It was the first election to take place since Prime Minister Mia Mottley's governing Barbados Labour Party won all seats in the House of Assembly in the 2018 Barbadian general election.[1]
Party | Position | Ideology | Leader | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barbados Labour Party | Centre-left | Social democracy Republicanism | Mia Mottley [2] | ||
Democratic Labour Party | Centre-left | Social democracy Democratic socialism Republicanism | Verla De Peiza [3] | ||
Solutions Barbados | Centre | Manifesto[4] | Grenville Phillips II [5] | ||
United Progressive Party | Centre-left | Labourism Progressivism Social democracy Third Way | Everton Holligan [6] | ||
Bajan Free Party | Political transparency[7] | Alex Mitchell [8] | |||
People's Party for Democracy and Development | Centre-left | Social democracy Christian democracy Christian left | Joseph Atherley [9] |
Toni Moore won the election, keeping the seat in BLP hands.[10] Shortly after the election, Grenville Phillips II, the leader of the Solutions Barbados party, announced that he was retiring from further political activity.[11]
Turnout was over 14% lower in the district than in 2018, with less than half of eligible voters participating.