PPP’s votes in Reg. 4 increased by 6,000; Jagdeo says WIN took APNU’s support

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) increased its support in Region Four, Guyana’s most populated administrative region and the seat of the capital, but Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo said a majority of the support traditionally garnered by the PNC, which has now morphed into APNU, went to the newly formed WIN party.

Jagdeo is the General Secretary of the PPP/C. He spoke about the September 1 polls at his press conference on Thursday.

Much attention has been directed to Region Four now that the PPP scored the most support here of the six contesting parties in the elections. APNU requested a recount of sub-district four of the region; that recount is ongoing, but has been described as a means to “delay the inevitable.”

Jagdeo said the PPP’s votes in Region Four increased by just over 6,000; the exact figure is 6,616. And that, he said, is not “implausible,” more so since there are over 37,000 new voters in the region.

PPP/C got 87,536 votes in the general election for Region Four.

Surprisingly, the PNC-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) got 46,956 votes in the region. This region was never lost by the PNC, which morphed into APNU in 2011, since Guyana gained independence in 1966. In 2020, APNU got 116,941 votes in the region while the PPP got 80,920.

For Jagdeo, it was WIN that took away APNU’s votes. The third-highest number of votes in Region Four went to the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party; that party got 41,607 votes in the region.

“He [Azruddin Mohamed, the WIN party leader] launched his party at the right time when there were lots of people who did not want to support APNU again, and they did not want to support the PPP,” Jagdeo said.

Meanwhile, the Forward Guyana Movement got 2,431 votes in the region, while the Alliance For Change got 1,765, and the Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity got 497.