2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election

2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election
	5 November 2007
All 41 seats in the House of Representatives; 21 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	66.22% (3.42pp)
Prime Minister before election; Patrick Manning; People's National Movement	Subsequent Prime Minister ; Patrick Manning; People's National Movement

General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 5 November 2007.[1] Nomination day was 15 October. Five parties contested the elections; the ruling People's National Movement, the official opposition United National Congress–Alliance (a coalition of the UNC and six smaller parties), the Congress of the People, the Tobago United Front–Democratic Action Congress (a Tobago-based party) and the Democratic National Assembly (a new party based in Tobago). Five independent candidates also ran.

Opinion polls

A poll conducted by the Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES) and published by the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday in October 2007 showed the Congress of the People ahead of the ruling People's National Movement by 7%.[2]

Another poll from August indicated that the election would be a very close race.[3]

Results

The PNM party under the leadership of Patrick Manning won 26 of the 41 seats in Parliament. The UNC-A, under the leadership of Basdeo Panday won the 15 remaining seats. The COP did not win any seats.[4]



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	People's National Movement	300,434	45.99	26	+6
	United National Congress–Alliance	194,968	29.85	15	–1
	Congress of the People	148,345	22.71	0	New
	Democratic Action Congress	8,879	1.36	0	New
	Democratic National Assembly	378	0.06	0	New
	Independents	241	0.04	0	0
Total		653,245	100.00	41	+5

Valid votes		653,245	99.60
Invalid/blank votes		2,600	0.40
Total votes		655,845	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		990,467	66.22
Source: Caribbean Elections

Winning candidate by constituency

Constituency	Winner (Party)
Arima	Pennelope Beckles (PNM)
Arouca/Maloney	Alicia Hospedales (PNM)
Barataria/San Juan	Joseph Ross (PNM)
Caroni Central	Hamza Rafeeq (UNCA)
Caroni East	Tim Gopeesingh (UNCA)
Chaguanas East	Mustapha Abdul-Hamid (PNM)
Chaguanas West	Jack Warner (UNCA)
Couva North	Basdeo Panday (UNCA)
Couva South	Kelvin Ramnath (UNCA)
Cumuto/Manzanilla	Harry Partap (UNCA)
D'Abadie/O'Meara	Karen Nunez-Tesheira (PNM)
Diego Martin Central	Amery Brown (PNM)
Diego Martin North/East	Colm Imbert (PNM)
Diego Martin West	Keith Rowley (PNM)
Fyzabad	Chandresh Sharma (UNCA)
La Brea	Fitzgerald Jeffrey (PNM)
La Horquetta/Talparo	Roger Joseph (PNM)
Laventille East/Morvant	Donna Cox (PNM)
Laventille West	Nileung Hypolite (PNM)
Lopinot/Bon Air West	Neil Parsanlal (PNM)
Mayaro	Winston Peters (UNCA)
Naparima	Nizam Baksh (UNCA)
Oropouche East	Roodal Moonilal (UNCA)
Oropouche West	Mikela Panday (UNCA)
Point Fortin	Paula Gopee-Scoon (PNM)
Pointe-a-Pierre	Christine Kangaloo (PNM)
POS North/St. Anns West	Gary Hunt (PNM)
POS South	Marlene Mc Donald (PNM)
Princes Town North	Subhas Panday (UNCA)
Princes Town South/Tableland	Peter Taylor (PNM)
San Fernando East	Patrick Manning (PNM)
San Fernado West	Junia Regrello (PNM)
Siparia	Kamla Persad-Bissessar (UNCA)
St. Anns East	Anthony Roberts (PNM)
St. Augustine	Vasant Bharat (UNCA)
St. Joseph	Kennedy Swaratsingh (PNM)
Tabaquite	Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj (UNCA)
Tobago East	Rennie Dumas (PNM)
Tobago West	Stanford Callendar (PNM)
Toco/Sangre Grande	Indra Ojah-Maharaj (PNM)
Tunapuna	Esther Le Gendre (PNM)

Votes by constituency

Constituency	PNM	UNCA	COP	DNA	TUF/DAC
Arima	PNM-8,603	UNCA-1,224	COP-3,464
Arouca/Maloney	PNM-12,055	UNCA-1,480	COP-2,373
Barataria/San Juan	PNM-7,179	UNCA-5,358	COP-3,917
Caroni Central	PNM-4,800	UNCA-7,481	COP-4,313
Caroni East	PNM-3,869	UNCA-8,297	COP-4,086
Chaguanas East	PNM-6,757	UNCA-4,993	COP-4,122
Chaguanas West	PNM-1,519	UNCA-11,140	COP-5,280
Couva North	PNM-5,249	UNCA-8,745	COP-4,238
Couva South	PNM-5,097	UNCA-8,428	COP-4,409
Cumuto/Manzanilla	PNM-7,014	UNCA-7,351	COP-3,177
D'Abadie/O'Meara	PNM-8,875	UNCA-2,425	COP-3,695
Diego Martin Central	PNM-9,301	UNCA-582	COP-5,589
Diego Martin North/East	PNM-9,349	UNCA-972	COP-4,928
Diego Martin West	PNM-9,221	UNCA-513	COP-5,600
Fyzabad	PNM- 7,201	UNCA-7,572	COP-3,724
La Brea	PNM-10,055	UNCA-3,442	COP-1,909
La Horquetta/Talparo	PNM-8,271	UNCA-3,394	COP-2,593
Laventille East/Morvant	PNM-11,069	UNCA-1047	COP-1,545
Laventille West	PNM-10,537	UNCA-343	COP-1,085
Lopinot/Bon Air West	PNM-8,535	UNCA-3,907	COP-3,160
Mayaro	PNM-8,133	UNCA-8,583	COP-1,936
Naparima	PNM-2,892	UNCA-10,338	COP-4,291
Oropouche East	PNM-2,991	UNCA-10,156	COP-6,489
Oropouche West	PNM-3,692	UNCA-8,570	COP-4,198
Point Fortin	PNM-9,276	UNCA-2,640	COP-3,838
Point-a-Pierre	PNM-7,427	UNCA-6,136	COP-3,740
Princes Town North	PNM-5,298	UNCA-8,231	COP-3,832
Princes Town South/Tableland	PNM-8,929	UNCA-7,908	COP-1,437
Port of Spain North/St. Ann's West	PNM-8,274	UNCA-305	COP-3,644
Port of Spain South	PNM-7,823	UNCA-573	COP-3,141
San Fernando East	PNM-10,320	UNCA-1,060	COP-3,247
San Fernando West	PNM-7,371	UNCA-2,306	COP-4,951
Siparia	PNM-4,679	UNCA-10,320	COP-3,166
St. Ann's East	PNM-10,010	UNCA-1,060	COP-3,247
St. Augustine	PNM-4,309	UNCA-7,043	COP-6,426
St. Joseph	PNM-7,965	UNCA-4,945	COP-4,145
Tabaquite	PNM-5,464	UNCA-7,213	COP-5,666
Toco/Sangre Grande	PNM-9,557	UNCA-3,864	COP-3,214
Tobago East	PNM-5,601		COP-234	DNA-63	TUF/DAC-4,425
Tobago West	PNM-6,850		COP-471	DNA-313	TUF/DAC-4.304
Tunapuna	PNM-8,468	UNCA-3,823	COP-4,004
TOTAL	PNM-299,813	UNCA-194,425	COP-148,014	DNA-376	TUF/DAC-8,801

The UNC-Alliance did not run for any seats in Tobago.

Candidates

UNCA

Arima – Wayne Rodriguez
Arouca/Maloney – Dianne Bishop-Bajnath
Barataria / San Juan – Nazeemool Mohammed
Caroni East – Tim Gopeesingh
Chaguanas East – Kirk Meighoo
Chaguanas West – Austin Jack Warner
Couva North – Basdeo Panday
Couva South – Kelvin Ramnath
Cumuto / Manzanilla – Harry Partap
Diego Martin West – Daphne Phillips
Diego Martin Central – Steve Alvarez
Diego Martin North / East – Andy Williams
Fyzabad – Chandresh Sharma
La Brea – Ravi Ratiram
La Horquetta – Talparo – Jennifer Jones-Kernahan
Laventille East – Morvant – Lennox Smith
Laventille West – Juliet Davy
Lopinot – Bon Air West – Prakash Williams
Mayaro – Winston "Gypsy" Peters
Naparima – Nizam Baksh
Oropouche East – Roodal Moonilal
Oropouche West – Mickela Panday
Point Fortin – Fitzroy Beache
Pointe-a-Pierre – Wade Mark
Port of Spain South – Anthony Sammy
Princes Town South – Tableland – Clifton De Coteau
San Fernando East – Ramesh Karapan
San Fernando West – Bishop Jankee Raghunanan
Siparia – Kamla Persad-Bissessar
St. Ann's East – Tricia Moraldo
St. Augustine – Vasant Bharath
St. Joseph – Carson Charles
Tabaquite – Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj
Toco – Sangre Grande – Keshore Satram
Tunapuna – Christine Newallo

PNM

Arima- Pennelope Beckles
Arouca/Maloney – Alicia Hospedales
Barataria/San Juan – Joseph Ross
Caroni Central – Shivanand Narinesingh
Caroni East – Harold Ramoutar
Chaguanas East – Mustapha Abdul – Hamid
Chaguanas West – Frankie Ranjitsingh
Couva North – Nal Ramsingh
Couva South – Naim Ali
Cumuto/Manzanilla – Lennox Sirjusingh
D'Abadie/O'Meara – Karen Nunez Tesheira
Diego Martin Central – Amery Browne
Diego Martin North/East – Colm Imbert
Diego Martin West – Dr Keith Rowley
Fyzabad – Andre Bernard
La Brea – Fitzgerald Jeffrey
La Horquetta/Talparo – Roger Joseph
Laventille East/Morvant – Donna Cox
Laventille West – Nyleung Hypolite
Lopinot/Bon Air – Neil Parsanlal
Mayaro – Michelle Mischier Boyd
Naparima – Geeta Rampersad
Oropouche East – Shafeeq Mohammed
Oropouche West – Raghunath Mahabir
Princes Town North – Marlon Mohammed
Princes Town South/Tableland – Peter Taylor
Point Fortin – Paula Gopee
Point-a-Pierre – Christine Kangaloo
Port of Spain North/St Ann's West- Gary Hunte
Port of Spain South – Marlene McDonald
San Fernando East – Patrick Manning
San Fernando West – Junia Regrello
Siparia – Lutchman Rampersad
St Ann's East – Anthony Roberts
St Augustine – Nadra Nathai-Gyan
St Joseph – Kennedy Swaratsingh
Tabaquite – Heeralal Rampertap
Tobago East – Rennie Dumas
Tobago West – Stanford Calender
Toco/Sangre Grande – Indra Sinanan Ojah-Maharaj
Tunapuna – Ester Le Gendre

COP

TOBAGO EAST – Seeking Candidate name 234 votes
TOBAGO WEST – Seeking Candidate name 471 votes
Rodger Dominic Samuel — Arima
Rekha Ramjit — Naparima
Nirad Tewarie — Chaguanas East
Devant Maharaj — Couva South
Lena Brereton Wolffe — Toco/Sangre Grande
Ganga Singh — Caroni East
Arthur Augustine — Laventille West
La Toya Callender — Laventille East/Morvant
Rabindra Moonan — Mayaro
Rocky Garcia — Diego Martin West
Sharon-Ann Gopaul-McNichol — Port-of-Spain South
Mahendranath Dhaniram — Fyzabad
Prakash Ramadhar — Caroni Central
Navi MUradali — Princes Town North
Carol Cuffy-Dowlat —Oropouche East
Selby Wilson — Point Fortin
Kevin Ratiram — Oropouche West
Gilbert Agard — La Brea
Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan — Pointe-à-Pierre
Joe Pires — Diego Martin North East
Kathy-Ann Jones — Arouca/Maloney
Jamal Mohammed — San Juan/Barataria
Manohar Ramsaran — Chaguanas West
Nicole Dyer-Griffith — Diego Martin Central
Desmond Lambert — Princes Town South/Tableland
Wendy Lee Yuen — Cumuto/Manzanilla
Daniel Solomon — Port-of-Spain North/St Ann's West
Govindra Roopnarine — Siparia
Clyde Weatherhead — Tunapuna
Hulsie Bhaggan — Couva North
Sherwin Alleyne — D’Abadie/O’Meara
Jerome Chaitan — Lopinot/Bon Air West
Gary Griffith — St Ann's East
Delon Haynes — La Horquetta/Talparo
Gillian Lucky — St Joseph
Anand Ramlogan — Tabaquite
Winston Dookeran — St Augustine
Marlene Coudray – San Fernando West
Mervyn Assam – San Fernando East

References

"Trinidad PM announces Nov. 5 elections". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
"COP riding high". Newsday. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
"Close Race Developing in Trinidad & Tobago". Angus Reid. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
"Elections 2007: Trinidad Prime Minister Patrick Manning holds on to power". Breaking News. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007.

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[1] "Trinidad PM announces Nov. 5 elections". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 6 November 2007.

[2] "COP riding high". Newsday. Retrieved 6 November 2007.

[3] "Close Race Developing in Trinidad & Tobago". Angus Reid. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007.

[4] "Elections 2007: Trinidad Prime Minister Patrick Manning holds on to power". Breaking News. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007.