Election Name: | 1986 Trinidad and Tobago general election |
Country: | Trinidad and Tobago |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1981 Trinidad and Tobago general election |
Previous Year: | 1981 |
Next Election: | 1991 Trinidad and Tobago general election |
Next Year: | 1991 |
Seats For Election: | All 36 seats in the House of Representatives |
Majority Seats: | 19 |
Turnout: | 65.5 (9.7 pp) |
Leader1: | A. N. R. Robinson |
Colour1: | e25822 |
Leader Since1: | 1986 |
Party1: | NAR |
Leaders Seat1: | Tobago East |
Last Election1: | 10 seats, 43.4% |
Seats1: | |
Seat Change1: | 23 |
Popular Vote1: | 380,029 |
Percentage1: | 66.3% |
Swing1: | 22.9 pp |
Leader2: | George Chambers |
Leader Since2: | 30 March 1981 |
Party2: | People's National Movement |
Leaders Seat2: | St. Ann's East (lost seat) |
Last Election2: | 26 seats, 32.0% |
Seat Change2: | 23 |
Popular Vote2: | 183,635 |
Percentage2: | 32.0% |
Swing2: | 20.9 pp |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent Prime Minister |
Before Election: | George Chambers |
Before Party: | People's National Movement |
After Election: | A. N. R. Robinson |
After Party: | National Alliance for Reconstruction |
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 15 December 1986.[1] The result was a victory for the National Alliance for Reconstruction, which won 33 of the 36 seats. Voter turnout was 65.5%.[2]
Constituency | NAR | PNM | |
---|---|---|---|
Arima | Gloria Pollard | ||
Arouca North | Rawle Raphael | ||
Arouca South | Gloria Henry | ||
Barataria/San Juan | Kenneth Butcher | ||
Caroni East | Bhoe Tewarie | ||
Chaguanas | |||
Couva North | |||
Couva South | Kelvin Ramnath | ||
Diego Martin Central | |||
Diego Martin East | |||
Diego Martin West | Margaret Hector | ||
Fyzabad | Arthur Sanderson | ||
La Brea | Albert Richards | ||
Laventille | Muriel Donawa-McDavidson | ||
Naparima | Raymond Roy Palackdharry Singh | ||
Nariva | Brinsley Samaroo | ||
Oropouche | Trevor Sudama | ||
Ortoire/Mayaro | |||
Point Fortin | Selby Wilson | ||
Pointe-à-Pierre | Oswald Hemlee | ||
Port-of-Spain East | Morris Marshall | ||
Port-of-Spain West | Jenson Christopher Fox | ||
Port-of-Spain South | Theodore Guerra | ||
Princes Town | Jennifer Johnson | ||
San Fernando East | |||
San Fernando West | Anselm St. George | ||
Siparia | Govindra Roopnarine | ||
St Ann's East | Lincoln Myers | ||
St Ann's West | Eden Shand | ||
St Augustine | John Humphery | ||
St Joseph | |||
Tabaquite | Nizam Mohammed | ||
Tobago East | |||
Tobago West | Pamela Nicholson | ||
Toco/Manzanilla | Joseph Toney | ||
Tunapuna | Emanuel Hosein |