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    Early general elections were held in Jamaica on 15 December 1983. The elections were effectively ended as a contest when the main opposition party, the...
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    General elections were held in Jamaica on Thursday, 3 September 2020 to elect 63 members of Parliament. As the constitution stipulates a five-year parliamentary...
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    General elections were held in Jamaica on 25 February 2016. The elections were largely a contest between the governing People's National Party (PNP) and...
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    seriously contested elections since 1980, as the PNP had boycotted the 1983 snap elections to protest the refusal of the ruling Jamaican Labour Party to update...
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  • following elections occurred in the year 1983. 1983 Cameroonian parliamentary election 1983 Equatorial Guinean legislative election 1983 Kenyan general election...
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    General elections were held in Jamaica on 30 October 1980. The balance of power in the 60-seat Jamaican House of Representatives was dramatically-shifted...
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  • The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka Lieba Paati) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the People's...
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    landslide victory in the 2020 Jamaican general election. The prime minister is formally appointed into office by the governor general, who represents King Charles...
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  • one particular party and a change in the popular mood. 1983 Jamaican general election – The Jamaica Labour Party led by Prime Minister Edward Seaga won all...
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    were the Local Government Elections of 2024, held on February 26, 2024. The next elections are the 2025 General Elections. In 2008, Prime Minister Bruce...
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    current Jamaican monarch and head of state, since 8 September 2022, is King Charles III. As sovereign, he is the personal embodiment of the Jamaican Crown...
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  • be unreliable. The party contested one seat in the 1983 Jamaican general election. The elections that year saw a mass boycott (turnout was just 3%) as...
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    1962 Jamaican general election, the JLP won 26 seats and the PNP 19. The voter turnout was 72.9%. This resulted in the independence of Jamaica on 6 August...
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    1992–2002. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers. "Jamaican general election results 3 September 2007". Caribbean Elections: Jamaican Election Centre. Archived...
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    officials and the Jamaican upper class was reinforced in London, where the West India Committee lobbied for Jamaican interests. Jamaica's white or near-white...
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    Portia Simpson-Miller (category Use Jamaican English from March 2012)
    the request of the Governor General, Simpson-Miller formed the new Jamaican government. In the 2011 Jamaican general election, the number of seats had been...
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  • to be valid, the boycott may prevent this quorum being reached. In general elections, individuals and parties will often boycott in order to protest the...
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  • Texas. 25 February – Jamaican general election, 2016: Voters in Jamaica go to the polls for a general election, with the Jamaican Labour Party, led by...
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    Edward Seaga (category Jamaican members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    also used his position to continue to promote Jamaican music. Following the 1967 Jamaican general election, Seaga was appointed Minister of Finance and...
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    California Attorney General election was held on November 2, 2010, to choose the Attorney General of California. The primary election was held on June 8...
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    Florizel Glasspole (category Governors-general of Jamaica)
    from 1939 to 1947, General Secretary of the Trades Union Advisory Council and, from 1947 to 1952, General Secretary of the Jamaican Trade Union Congress...
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    The 2016 Jamaican local elections were held on November 28, 2016. "Jamaica Labour Party Wins Local Government ElectionsJamaica Information Service"...
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    Michael Manley (category Use Jamaican English from March 2012)
    general elections of 1972. In the 1972 Jamaican general election, Manley defeated the unpopular incumbent Prime Minister, Hugh Shearer of the Jamaica...
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    Peter Bunting (category Use Jamaican English from March 2012)
    Party leadership election, Bunting was the lead contender in the polls before the PNP's stunning defeat in the 2020 Jamaican general election, in which he...
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    Shaun Wallace (category English people of Jamaican descent)
    heritage, he has been a member of the Jamaican Bar since 1999. In 2004, Wallace became a champion of the BBC general knowledge quiz, Mastermind, which also...
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  • Donald Keith Duncan (category Use Jamaican English from September 2020)
    1980 general election, Duncan was returned to Parliament from the constituency, but lost the seat when the PNP decided not to contest the 1983 election. After...
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    transferred for one Jamaican dollar. The park is well known for the 11 ft. (approximately 3m) high bronze sculpture done by Jamaican artist Laura Facey...
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    vote in elections to the Assembly, though they had to own property, so the white planters continued to dominate it. Jamaican general elections, 1677–1863...
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    Winsome Sears (category Jamaican emigrants to the United States)
    gubernatorial election. Sears is the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor of Virginia and is the first woman of color and first Jamaican-born American...
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  • Jamaican popular resistance to fiscal controls imposed on the country by the International Monetary Fund and accepted by Manley. The 1980 elections resulted...
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