PPP/C secures landslide victory with 46,513-vote lead over combined Opposition — Jagdeo

…says WIN split APNU’s support base; the party “should have seen it coming”

General Secretary (GS) of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has highlighted that the party has won the elections in a landslide victory, earning 46,513 more votes than the combined opposition – which includes five political parties.
Speaking during his press conference on Thursday, Jagdeo pointed out that the count was observed by stakeholders, including polling day staff, local and international observers, and party agents, and that the Statements of Poll (SoPs) were signed off and uploaded to GECOM’s website and available to all Guyanese.
He further highlighted that the results for each district were declared by the respective returning officers and signed onto by the various parties’ agents. The results for all 10 regions are now in the public domain for all Guyanese to see, he noted.
“The tabulation of those results shows that the PPP/Civic won a landslide in the 2025 elections,” Jagdeo emphasised.
In the 2020 elections, he reminded us that the PPP/C got 50.7 per cent of the votes, whereas the combined opposition got 49.4 per cent – a difference of 0.3 per cent.
In these elections, he said the PPP/C got 55.32 per cent of the votes while the combined opposition got 44.68 per cent – a 10.6 per cent difference.
When examined from another perspective, he explained that in 2020, the PPP/C got 6390 votes more than the combined opposition. In 2025, he said the PPP/C got 46,513 votes more than the combined opposition.
“This is a landslide by any standard,” he contended.
Based on the declared results, the PPP/C earned 242,498 votes. This represents an impressive lead of over 1,300,000 votes over its nearest political rival, the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, which secured 109,066 votes.
In the last national elections in 2020, the PPP/C won the presidency with 233,336 votes, a lead of 15,416 over its nearest political opponent at the time, A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC).
The APNU, which contested independently at this year’s polls, only managed to gain 77,998 votes, while the AFC earned 3610 votes.
The Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) earned 4,197 votes, while the Assembly of Liberty and Justice (ALP) got 969.

Not implausible
The General Secretary also rejected claims by APNU’s presidential candidate Aubrey Norton that it is “implausible” for his party to drop from some 116,941 votes in the 2020 elections to 46,956 at Monday’s polls for Region Four – the country’s largest voting district.
He further contended that these results are not surprising, pointing out that he previously cautioned that it was APNU that had to be worried about WIN impacting its support base.
“In these elections, it’s true that APNU dropped to 46,956 votes. But WIN got 41,607, and APNU dropped to 46,956 votes. It’s true. But combined, they had 88,563 votes. The PPP, on the other hand, increased its vote to 87,536 votes. We increased our votes by 6,000, which is not implausible in an election in Region Four. And they didn’t drop from 116,000 to 40-something thousand. They dropped to just over 88,000 combined because WIN took a significant part of APNU’s votes,” he went on to state.
“…the signs were there; they refused to accept what was clear, what was evident to every other Guyanese… But they stuck their heads in the sand and refused to deal with this situation,” he contended.
“We saw it coming; they should have seen it coming… [but] they persisted with this fallacy that somehow he [WIN’s presidential candidate Azruddin Mohamed] would have gotten the PPP/C support and caused us to be a minority Government,” he noted.

Support
Meanwhile, the PPP GS also expressed gratitude to all of the party’s supporters, from leaders to grassroots, who contributed to the party’s victory.
He also lauded GECOM for its efficiency in the conduct of Monday’s polls.
“I want to also thank those responsible for logistics before the elections, during the elections and after the elections because too often in a country those people go unnoticed. So outside of the activists who are visibly seen on the streets carrying out the messages, coming to the rallies, and the people who came to the rallies. There was an army of people who were working behind the scenes to bring people out to vote on election day and to cook the food to take to the polling agents. Many of them volunteered their vehicles to pick up people all day long. They were there as polling agents of the party. They stayed throughout the whole day. They stayed through the count. They followed the boxes. They ensured that the boxes were escorted safely to different places in the country where they should be. And today I want to also thank them for the work that they did to ensure this massive victory,” he said.
Moreover, Jagdeo lauded the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for executing what he described as a peaceful, well-administered, and free demonstration of democracy.
“There were lots of rumours before the elections about GECOM’s capability. Every international observer group spoke of the manner in which the elections were conducted, the quality of the staff, the helpfulness of the staff, the professionalism of the GECOM staff, and their adherence to procedures to ensure the transparency of the vote. And we saw it, we witnessed it, and we should give appreciation to the leadership of GECOM, to the staff of GECOM, and to the thousands of people that they hired and trained to conduct these elections.” Jagdeo said.