If all goes well, then the National Recount of the ballots cast in the March 2 General and Regional Elections should be completed today, with just 74 ballot boxes remaining to be counted.
The certified tabulation of Region 10 recount
On Saturday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) completed 93 ballot boxes from Electoral District Four (Demerara-Mahaica) – Guyana’s largest electoral district. Region Four is the only region remaining to be counted with the other nine already completed.
Additionally, the recount results for District Ten (Upper Demerara-Berbice) was certified on Saturday but despite winning the region, the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) is still insisting on not signing the Recount Certificates.
According to the certified results, the coalition gained 19,169 votes while the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) obtained 3162 votes, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) – 171, Change Guyana (CG) – 109, People’s Republic Party (PRP) – 47, The Citizen’s Initiative (TCI) – 37, The New Movement (TNM) – 16, and United Republican Party (URP) – 36. The figures were for the General Elections.
Electoral District Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) is expected to be certified today since the tabulation was already completed. According to the uncertified figures, the PPP/C won the region with 43,440 votes, beating the APNU/AFC by over 23,000 votes. The incumbent amassed 20,339 while ANUG, CG, PRP, TCI and URP got 164, 272, 172, 60, 16, and 44 respectively.
Thus far 2236 of the 2339 Statements of Recount have been tabulated amounting to just over 90 per cent. While the recounting of the ballots is expected to be completed today, the tabulation and subsequent certification of those results can be expected sometime on Monday or Tuesday.
After those results have been tabulated and certified it will make its way to Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield who has the responsibility of preparing a report of the figures and presenting it to the Commission.
The Chair and Commissioners would deliberate and have three days to make the final declaration.
Based on the numbers emanating from the recount, the PPP/C has a mammoth lead of 14,317 votes.
