Unofficial election results of twenty-nine constituencies
For those viewers who may have followed Thursday night’s results but were too elated or dejected to record the numbers we’ll run through them one time for the record. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods will do the honors for the two major parties.
The twenty-six constituencies won by the P.U.P. went as follows:
Caribbean Shores: Jose Coye 1,530 votes,
Manuel Esquivel 1,199
Freetown: Jorge Espat 1,276,
Marisa Quan 471
Pickstock: George Price 714,
Wilfred Elrington 613
Fort George: Said Musa 1,142,
Derek Aikman 380
Albert: Mark Espat 1,102,
Thomas Morisson 445
Collet: Remijio Montejo 1,290,
Faith Babb 802
Lake Independence: Cordel Hyde 2,422,
Hubert Elrington 1,059
Port Loyola: Dolores Balderamos Garcia 2,123,
Anthony Boots Martinez 1,422
Belize Rural North: Max Samuels 1,141,
Denton Belisle 1,012
Belize Rural Central: Ralph Fonseca 2,199,
Louis Sylvestre 757
Belize Rural South: Patty Arceo 1,378,
Manuel Heredia Jr. 1,027
Corozal North: Valdemar Castillo 1,793,
Guadalupe Longsworth 1,059
Corozal Bay: Vildo Marin 2,198,
Willard Levy 1,309
Corozal Southeast: Florencio Marin 2,259,
Eloy Navarro 1,114
Corozal Southwest: Gregorio Garcia 1,611,
Asterio Ortega 1,405
Orange Walk North: Servulo Baeza 2,133,
Alfredo Martinez 1,609
Orange Walk East: Dave Burgos 2,208,
Elodio Aragon 1,663
Orange Walk South: Salus Lizama 2,188,
Onesimo Pech 1,540
Orange Walk Central: Johnny BriceƱo 1,636,
Ruben Campos 808
Cayo North: Ainslie Leslie 2,357,
Salvador Fernandez 2,273
Cayo Central: Daniel Silva Jr. 2,013,
Eduardo Juan 1,685
Cayo South: Agripino Cawich 2,827,
John Saldivar 1,351
Stann Creek West: Henry Canton 1,819,
Melvin Hulse Jr. 1,139
Dangriga: Theodore Aranda 1,598,
Russell Garcia 1,171
Toledo East: Michael Espat 2,278,
Ryan Pennel 1,603
Toledo West: Marcial Mes 2,138,
Dennis Usher 1,096
The three constituencies that went top the U.D.P. are as follows:
Queen’s Square: Dean Barrow 872,
Dickie Bradley 825
Mesopotamia: Michael Finnegan 813,
Ray Lightburn 608
Cayo West: Erwin Contreras 1,537,
Amin Hegar 1,527
As has become the norm in Belizean elections, no third party or independent candidate was a factor in Thursday’s voting. Cayo South’s “Miley” Garcia did the best of the also-rans, but even he failed to score ten percent of the vote.