President Irfaan Ali, PPP/C poised for 2nd term

…PPP/C takes Reg 4 in historic win

President Dr Irfaan Ali is projected to take office for a second term in Government as the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) heads towards a resounding victory in the 2025 General and Regional Elections. One day after Guyanese went to the polls to cast their ballots on Monday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), up to press time on Tuesday evening, was tabulating the results from the 10 electoral districts across the country and is yet to make an official declaration on the outcome of the elections. However, based on independent figures using the Statements of Poll (SoPs) so far released on GECOM’s website, President Ali and the PPP/C are poised to return to Government with an even bigger victory than 2020. According to these figures, the PPP/C has secured over 200,000 votes in these elections which saw a low voter turnout.
In a brief Facebook post on Tuesday morning, President Ali congratulated Guyanese for peacefully exercising their democratic right during Monday’s polls.
“As GECOM continues the process of uploading, verification, and tabulation, I urge all to celebrate our democratic values as we open another chapter in the development of our beautiful country. By the end of today [Tuesday], the trend will be clear and we will be in a position to move forward together,” Ali stated.

Ali became Executive President of Guyana after winning the 2020 General and Regional Elections and securing a one-seat majority in the National Assembly. At 45 years old, he is on track to return as Guyana’s President and lead the 13th Parliament of Guyana. With President Ali alongside Prime Minister (PM) Brigadier (Retired) Mark Phillips and the Party’s General Secretary (GS) Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on its ticket, the PPP/C ran its 2025 election campaign based on track record and the delivery of promises kept to the electorate over the last five years.

Historic grab of Region 4
Leading in at least eight of Guyana’s 10 administrative regions after Monday’s polls, the PPP/C is positioned to once again secure a parliamentary majority in the 65-seat National Assembly.
The PPP/C is leading in Regions One (Barima-Waini), Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), Four (Demerara-Mahaica), Five (Mahaica-Berbice), Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) and Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo). This would be the first time in the country’s history that the PPP/C has gained control of Region Four – the largest voting district and home of the capital city, Georgetown.

Region Four, the most populous and politically significant region, has long been considered a People’s National Congress-led A Partnership for National Unity (PNC-APNU) stronghold. But in a striking breakthrough, the PPP/C has secured Region Four. Controlling this region, gives the PPP/C enhanced influence over local governance and administrative priorities in the capital region.
At the 2020 elections, the party had secured 80,920 votes in Region Four at the general elections and 81,279 at the regional elections. But based on independent figures, this publication understands that the PPP/C gained just under 50 per cent of the votes in Region Four, while APNU and the We Invest In Nationhood (WIN) party, which was founded by United States (US)-sanctioned businessman Azruddin Mohamed, received just over 20 per cent votes each.

Regions Eight & Nine
Meanwhile, the PPP/C also took another district from the grasp of the PNC-led APNU – Region Eight. Returning Officer (RO) for Region Eight, Dwayne Marco on Tuesday night declared the official results for that voting district – a second layer of declarations in a 3-tier declaration process. The first being at the subdistrict levels for Regions Three, Four and Six, which were divided in sections given their large voting populations. The final declaration will be done by the Elections Commission, representing the national outcome of both the general and regional elections. This official declaration from GECOM could be done today.
Nevertheless, based on the declared results, the PPP/C has won Region Eight, securing 2,872 votes in the general elections while the APNU received 276, and the Alliance For Change (AFC) 56 while WIN got 2,562. In the regional elections, the PPP/C earned 2,847 votes while the APNU got 253, the AFC 54 and the WIN, 2,558.
Additionally, the PPP/C has once again won Region Nine. Based on figures announced by Returning Officer for Region Nine, Carlos Melville, during his declaration of results for that voting district, the PPP/C got 9,938 votes while the APNU received 450, the AFC 192 and WIN 4,817 votes in the general elections.
For the regional elections, the PPP/C secured 9,853 votes while the APNU got 430, the AFC 265 and the WIN, 4,794.

Parliamentary Opposition
In another historic turn of events coming out of these elections, the PNC-led APNU, led by Aubrey Norton, has lost significant political power with its parliamentary grip weakened at the hands of the new kid on the block, the WIN party.
Based on GECOM released figures, Mohamed’s party has won Regions Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) and 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) – both traditionally political strongholds of the PNC-led APNU. PNC, founded by former President Linden Forbes Burnham, has historically been the main parliamentary opposition party since 1992 with the exception of its 2015-2020 tenure in office under the then APNU+AFC Coalition. WIN’s projected victory in these two regions means that the Nigel Hughes-led AFC has been effectively kicked out of the benches in the parliamentary opposition. Once an emerging third force in Guyana, the AFC had won 5 out of 65 seats in Parliament at the 2006 elections and seven in 2011. It teamed up with the APNU in 2015 and together they won that year’s elections but their term was cut short in 2018 when the Government fell to a no-confidence motion. In 2020, AFC’s popularity declined, and it secured just five seats in the elections which it contested jointly with APNU. Together, the APNU and AFC had held 31 seats in the National Assembly, forming the main parliamentary opposition. The former coalition partners contested the 2025 elections separately. The independent vote count of Monday’s General and Regional Elections shows that the AFC struggled to secure enough votes to earn a single seat in the National Assembly, while the APNU’s parliamentary influence has diminished with the party likely to get the least number of opposition seats in the 65-member House.
According to Jagdeo, the opposition’s plans to make the PPP/C a minority Government backfired. He noted that a “combination of things” led to WIN displacing APNU as the second ranked party in these elections. Nevertheless, the PPP/C GS stated during an interview on Tuesday that while his party will await the official declaration from GECOM, “anyone who can use a calculator would know the results”. From his party’s internal calculations, Jagdeo explained that “the PPP will go into the National Assembly with a bigger majority than it did in 2020”.
“That’s very clear from the trend you were seeing and from the gap between our total votes and that of WIN, APNU and all the other small parties combined. There is a substantial difference between the votes we garnered at the elections and what they did combined. So clearly, we’ll have an increased majority in the Parliament,” the GS noted. Meanwhile, scores of supporters gathered outside of PPP’s Freedom House headquarters in Georgetown on Tuesday evening after learning about the party’s impending victory.
Addressing those persons, Jagdeo indicated that “It’s still a bit early. You’ll be notified a bit further about what we’ll do to swear in President Irfaan Ali. But as you can see now, based on all the SoPs that are uploaded and the tabulation process that is going on, that the PPP has won an overwhelming victory in these elections.”
The PPP/C went onto expressed appreciation to the supporters, telling them their hard work was important in securing this victory.
“People like you and many others across this country have been at the forefront of the struggle to take our message to Guyanese and people across Guyana have listened to us and have supported us, and as a result of their support, we crossed that threshold – which was an important threshold [of] not just winning the presidency but going into parliament with an increased majority. And so, we’re looking forward now to continuing the working [and] serving our people,” Jagdeo told supporters.