Just to prove that they all have skeltons in the closet and pasts that they would rather bury... nobaddy have clean hands here. Defending one side based solely on the past is to use blinker vision.
Can anyone explain how overnight the safest JLP constituency became the staunchest PNP stronghold???? Dont pull any punches now...please give the story of SW St. Andrew, pre and post 1976! Did the people magically change or were they "cleansed"???
Some voting records below:
1959
Spaulding, Frank E.
Tavares, David C.
1962
Vernon Arnett
P.N.P.
Eugene C.L. Parkinson
J.L.P.
1972
Hill, Wilton
Gordon, Jason
1976
Simpson, Portia
McPherson, Joseph
1980
Simpson, Portia
Tavares, Finson T.G.L.
1989
Portia Simpson
P.N.P.
Royland Williams
J.L.P.
Portia Simpson 18,577
Royland Williams 396
1993
Portia Simpson
Basil C. Smith
1997
Portia Simpson
Basil C. Smith
2002
Can anyone explain how overnight the safest JLP constituency became the staunchest PNP stronghold???? Dont pull any punches now...please give the story of SW St. Andrew, pre and post 1976! Did the people magically change or were they "cleansed"???
Some voting records below:
1959
ST. ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
P.N.P.
28,226
66.74%
9,252
J.L.P.
9,494
ST. ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
Reuben Elilhu Martin
P.P.P.
Frank Emanuel Spaulding
P.N.P.
D. C. Tavares
J.L.P.
1967Reuben Elilhu Martin
P.P.P.
29,133
74.81
811
P.N.P.
8,951
J.L.P.
11,913
ST. ANDREW SOUTHERN
P.N.P.
9631
80.57
3522
J.L.P.
4170
ST. ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
J.L.P.
15,250
74.42
7,261
P.N.P.
4,020
ST ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
P.N.P.
19,323
96.94
13,584
J.L.P.
4,376
1980
ST ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
P.N.P.
20,992
105.06
17,192
J.L.P.
4,524
ST. ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
P.N.P.
20,055
97.54%
18,577
Royland Williams
J.L.P.
396
Portia Simpson 18,577
Royland Williams 396
1993
ST. ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
P.N.P.
18104
91.2
16439
J.L.P.
71
ST. ANDREW SOUTH WESTERN
P.N.P.
19070
81.65
15191
J.L.P.
312
CONSTITUENCY
ELECTORS
IEWFIPP
IND1
JLP
NJA
PNP
UPP
Voted
%Voted
ELECTORS
IEWFIPP
IND1
JLP
NJA
PNP
UPP
Voted
%Voted
ST.SWWESW St And.
20102
0
0
618
0
9716
0
10483
52
20102
0
0
618
0
9716
0
10483
52
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