At the end of Friday – day 23 of the National Recount exercise – the Guyana Elections Commission had also finished recounting an additional 82 ballot boxes
The GECOM tabulation figures as of Friday
GECOM has since completed tabulating the results of 1521 boxes, leaving 818 more boxes to be ascertained from the March 2 General and Region Elections. However, the boxes recounted are 1555, with 784 remaining to count.
Votes tabulated during the National Recount exercise illustrate that collectively, the three parties that engaged in a ‘joinder platform’ ahead of the polls have so far managed to secure among themselves 3360 votes, making a parliamentary seat not out of reach with just about 65 per cent of the ballot boxes for the March 2 General and Regional Elections recounted.
The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) headed by Lennox Shuman has so far secured 2084 votes while A New and United Guyana has had 1137 of its votes recounted while The New Movement (TNM) has gotten 139 votes.
Collectively, the three parties have managed to ascertain, so far, 3360 votes out of the 65 per cent of votes tabulated in the recount process.
Shuman’s party has seen most of its support in Regions Seven, Nine and Four, with the party securing just over 300 votes from Regions One and Two.
ANUG has seen Region Three giving that party its second-highest support base behind Region Four while the party failed to pick up more than 300 votes in the four other electoral districts.
TNM while failing to pick up more than 100 regions from each of the electoral districts it contested, the party saw the bulk of its individual support coming from Region Three and its second-highest tally coming from Region Four.
The votes tabulated puts the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) with 153,726 votes ascertained thus far, while the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU/AFC) has had 127,791 of its votes recounted.
This from the results of votes recounted in Regions One (Barima-Waini); Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) which has since been completed and certified in addition to the other ballot boxes counted from across the other electoral districts.
The exercise was originally scheduled to wrap up today at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) but has since been given a two-week extension in order to complete the exercise.
Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) continues to be the single region with the largest outstanding amount of ballot boxes for a recount, making up just about half of the remaining total.
Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) is just about 59 per cent completed with 166 ballot boxes more to be recounted and tabulated while Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) also has in excess of 100 ballot boxes yet to be recounted.
