8.30pm Video: By-Election Panel Discussion
[Updating] The by-election for Constituency 36 Sandys North is being held today [Oct 4], and we are thrilled to have some of the island’s brilliant young minds from Bermuda Youth Connect hosting a live discussion in advance of the results, and we will also be streaming the announcement live from the polling station.
There are four candidates in this by-election — which was called due to the resignation of the PLP’s Kathy Lightbourne-Simmons — with the FDM’s Marc Bean, the OBA’s Carl Neblett, the PLP’s Reverend Dr. Emily Gail Dill and Independent Cire Bean all set to contest the election.
Since the one seat system started in 2003, the PLP have won Constituency 36 Sandys North in all 5 General Elections. In the 2020 General Election, Ms Lightbourne-Simmons won the seat with 59.04% of the vote, the FDM’s Marc Bean was second with 25.34% of the vote and the OBA’s Jeff Sousa was third with 15.62% of the vote. The 2012 general election saw the closest the seat has ever been, with the PLP winning with just 50.51% of the vote against an OBA candidate.
The past results all reflect general elections, whereas this is a by-election and the first time since the one seat system was in place that the constituents have the ability to choose between four different candidates representing three different political parties and one independent.
Many political watchers will be keenly interested in the results of this by-election, not just who wins it, but the overall vote count and placements of all the candidates.
We don’t know exactly what time the results will come in, but in by-elections they generally are not announced before 9pm, but it always varies; the live stream panel discussions is set to start at 8:30pm, and we plan to cut to the polling station once they are ready to announce the results, whatever time that may be.
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This is excellent. Much appreciated.