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2023 Guyanese local elections
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All 80 Local Authority Areas Electoral Areas
Opinion polls
Leader
Bharrat Jagdeo
Aubrey Norton
Party
PPP/C
APNU
Leader since
7 January 2017
18 December 2021
Last election
122,307 votes, 60.5% 52 Local Authority Areas
68,060 votes, 33.7% 23 Local Authority Areas
The 2023 Guyanese local elections, officially due since 2020, were held on Monday, June 12, 2023, following the latest delay of the officially biennial polls by three years due to lawsuits and vacanies at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following the fallout and misconduct of the 2020 Guyanese general election and the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] All 1,220 council seats within 610 constituencies across Guyana's 80 local authority areas (LAAs), comprising 70 neighbourhood democratic councils (NDCs) and 10 municipalities are being contested. GECOM has stated that voting is not required in 291 constituencies in which the ruling People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has won by acclamation due to no other candidates running against them.[2][3] As a result the PPP/C has retained control and has won allseats in LAAs such as the NDCs of Leguan, La Jalousie/Nouvelle Flanders, Canals Polder, Little Diamond/Herstelling, Ordnance Fort Lands/ No. 38, Kintyre/No. 37 or Borlam, Kilcoy/Hampshire, Port Mourant/John, Bloomfield/Whim, No. 64/No. 74, the municipality of Lethem and has also gained control of the Aranaputa/ Upper Burro Burro NDC. The PPP/C is hoping to win over A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)/People's National Congress Reform (PNCR)opposition strongholds, campaigning heavily in Guyana's capital city, Georgetown, which has remained in APNU/PNCR control since independence from the United Kingdom in 1966. Efforts by the PNCR to postpone or cancel the elections via litigation regarding the electoral roll and local government constituency boundaries, were dismissed by Guyana's High Court in the lead-up to these elections, claiming that, these issues are behind its no-contest of 291 constituencies across the 80 LAAs.[4] The opposition Alliance for Change (AFC), the junior coalition partner of the APNU, has boycotted the 2023 local elections over similar concerns.[5]
For the last election in 2018, there were 1192 council seats in 596 constituencies, across Guyana's 80 local authority areas, comprising 70 neighbourhood democratic council (NDCs) and 10 municipalities.[6][7]
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^KNews (2023-05-06). "No Voting in Local Authority Areas where there is only one approved List of Candidates - GECOM". Kaieteur News. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
^"No voting required in 291 constituencies for LGE-GECOM". DPI Guyana. 2023-05-25. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
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^"Guyana: AFC to boycott 2023 Local Govt Elections | Loop Caribbean News". Loop News. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
^"Constituency boundaries adjusted for LGE 2023 – Min. Dharamlall". DPI Guyana. 2022-11-25. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
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