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    won the most votes, the United Bahamian Party won the most seats, largely as a result of gerrymandering. General elections in the Bahamas: May 7, 2012 OAS...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas on 19 September 1972. The result was a victory for the Progressive Liberal Party, which won 57.9% of the vote...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas on 19 August 1992. The result was a victory for the opposition Free National Movement (FNM), which received...
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  • Ruby Ann Darling (category 20th-century Bahamian women politicians)
    Cooper-Darling (born 28 June 1941) is a Bahamian politician and stateswoman. In the 1962 Bahamian general election, Darling made history becoming the first...
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    their loss, many also thought the election was a complete toss up with no clear predicted winner. In general, Bahamian voters favoured Ingraham over Christie...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas on 19 June 1987. The result was a victory for the Progressive Liberal Party, which won 31 of the 49 seats....
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas on 19 July 1977. The result was a victory for the Progressive Liberal Party, which won 30 of the 38 seats....
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas on 14 March 1997. The result was a victory for the Free National Movement, which won 34 of the 40 seats. Hubert...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas between 8 and 20 June 1956. Although the Progressive Liberal Party emerged as the largest party, winning six...
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    "Bahamians flock to polls for national elections". The Blade. 3 May 2002. p. 25. "Ruling party boss upset in Bahamian election". The Blade. 3 May 2002. p. 2....
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    through multiple further elections. The 1962 Bahamian general election was likely influenced by gerrymandering. The election was the first to allow universal...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas on 10 June 1982. The result was a victory for the Progressive Liberal Party, which won 32 of the 43 seats....
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas in 1935. This was the last entirely public ballot elections in the country. Elected in 1937 by-election...
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    general election, 1949 Bahamian general election, 1956 Bahamian general election, 1962 Bahamian general election, 1967 Bahamian general election, 1968 Bahamian...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas in December 1833. They were the first elections in which non-white residents were able to vote, and three non-white...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas in June and July 1949, the last entirely non-partisan elections in the country. This was the second election...
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    Early general elections were held in the Bahamas on 10 April 1968. The result was a victory for the Progressive Liberal Party, which won 29 seats. Voter...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas on 10 January 1967. The result was a tie between the Progressive Liberal Party and the United Bahamian Party...
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  • 1956 elections with six seats, although 22 MPs had been elected as independents. Following the 1958 general strike, it was renamed the United Bahamian Party...
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    The governor-general of The Bahamas is the representative of the Bahamian monarch, currently King Charles III, in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The...
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    General elections were held in the Bahamas in September 1729, the first elections in the territory. In August 1729, new Governor Woodes Rogers was instructed...
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  • successive elections to the House of Assembly in 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992 and 1997. On 27 April 1965, a day known in Bahamian history as...
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    constituencies. Elections for the House are held every 5 years. Voters must be aged 18 because you are considered an adult at that age or over, hold Bahamian citizenship...
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    and Caicos became part of the Bahamas colony and was placed under the Bahamian government. Attempts to integrate the two distinct communities failed and...
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    current Bahamian monarch and head of state, since 8 September 2022, is King Charles III. As sovereign, he is the personal embodiment of the Bahamian Crown...
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    Ingraham of the FNM.: p.78  Ingraham went on to win the 1997 Bahamian general election, before being defeated in 2002, when the PLP returned to power...
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    boundaries of the then United Bahamian Party (UBP) government. The BDM contested 12 of the 40 parliamentary seats in the general elections of 2002, winning no seats...
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    (PLP) Free National Movement (FNM) Bahamas Democratic Party (BDP) United Bahamian Party (UBP) Bahama Democrat Labour Party (BDLP) Bahamas Constitution Party...
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    Lester Maddox (category Candidates in the 1976 United States presidential election)
    drugs from a Bahamian cancer clinic to treat his prostate cancer. In July 1985, he revealed that the clinic had been shut down by Bahamian officials after...
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  • Doris Sands Johnson (category Bahamian educators)
    1921 – 21 June 1983) was a Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician. She was the first Bahamian woman to contest an election in the Bahamas, the first...
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