The People’s National Movement (PNM) not only lost the general election yesterday. The party also gave up the popular vote. The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) is expected to provide the final tally of votes today, but indications late last night were that the PNM would have surrendered majority support. Patrick Manning’s party polled 299,813 votes in the November 2007 election, ahead of the United National Congress-Alliance’s 194,425 and Congress of the People’s 148,041. The results yesterday for the People’s Partnership were more than the sum of its parts. The PNM won razor-thin majorities in the constituencies it secured yesterday, while the People’s Partnership led wider majorities in several of the seats in which it romped home victorious.
via guardian.co.tt
In the last general elections that the PNM won it was recorded that even though they won the majority of seats in 2007 they lost the "popular" vote. This simply meant that the majority of people who voted supported the opposition forces. However, because the opposition forces split the votes the PNM won several seats that could have resulted in a different outcome.
That did not happen this time and not only did the PNM lose the popular vote but because of a united opposition they also lost the general elections in historic fashion with a resounding trashing of 29 seats in favor of the People's Partnership compared to 12 seats for the PNM. When people unite good things happen and with the race card being dealt the unity seen within the opposition trounced the race card thereby ushering a new era of politics in Trinidad and Tobago.
This is the moment we all have been looking forward to and we can now proudly say that if "together we aspire" then surely we can conclude that "together we will achieve great things".
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