2022 People's National Movement internal election

The 2022 People's National Movement internal election, the last one for the PNM before the subsequent general election, took place over three days: November 26 and 27 and December 4, 2022.[2] The current party leader and Prime Minister Keith Rowley had indicated he would most likely not seek to lead the party into the next general election.[3] Rowley made these comments in his victory speech on the night of the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election, where the PNM secured a second mandate under his leadership but with the slimmest majority for a government in two decades. However, he announced that he would seek another term as the party's leader in October of 2022.[2] In the 2020 general election campaign, he indicated that he would have stood down had the PNM lost.[4] The election followed the 2022 Tobago Council of the People's National Movement leadership election. Keith Rowley won re-election by an overwhelming majority with a low voter turnout with 9,111 out of 105,894 eligible party members voting.

This article is about the 2022 People's National Movement national internal election. For the 2022 leadership election of the Tobagonian branch of the People's National Movement, see 2022 Tobago Council of the People's National Movement leadership election.
2022 People's National Movement leadership election
November 26 and 27 and December 4, 2022
Turnout9,111[1]
 
Candidate Keith Rowley[2] Karen Nunez-Tesheira[2] Ronald Boynes[2]
Popular vote 8,424[1] 345[1] 243[1]
Percentage
92.46%
3.79%
2.67%
 
Candidate Junior Barrack[2]
Popular vote 99[1]
Percentage
1.09%
Leader of the PNM before election

Keith Rowley

 Elected Leader of the PNM

Keith Rowley

This internal election followed growing discontent for the PNM government and successive electoral decline in support since 2016, with the party making no inroads since the 2015 Trinidad and Tobago general election, recording net voter and seat share losses and no net gains in the 2016 Trinidadian local elections, 2017 Tobago House of Assembly election, 2019 Trinidadian local elections, 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election, 2021 and 2022 Trinidadian local government by-elections where the party lost the Arima Central seat for the first time since 2013 and stumbled to third place in the Debe South seat[5][6] and the party losing votes and seats in Tobago since the 2013 Tobago House of Assembly election, January 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election and December 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election where the party went from controlling all seats in 2009 to one seat in 2021 after two consecutive decades in power.[7][8][9]

In addition to Rowley, other candidates for the leadership position were Karen Nunez-Tesheira, Junior Barrack, and Ronald Boynes.

See also

References
  1. "Rowley retains leadership of PNM". Loop News.
  2. La Vende, Jensen (October 11, 2022). "Four-way battle for PNM leadership". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
  3. "ROWLEY HOLDS ON". Trinidad Express Newspapers. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  4. "Rowley on course for another term as T&T Prime Minister". www.loopcayman.com. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  5. McLeod, Sheri-Kae (2021-01-27). "Trinidad's Ruling Party Loses Ground in Local Government Elections". Caribbean News. Archived from the original on 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  6. "UNC wins Debe South by landslide, PEP beats PNM". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 2022-02-08. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  7. "PDP victory as THA deadlock broken with historic PNM defeat". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  8. "PNM loses ground but holds on to popular vote". www.looptt.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  9. "Jamaica Observer Limited". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
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