{"id":21567,"date":"2012-05-10T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21567"},"modified":"2012-05-10T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:02:35","slug":"official-election-results-plp-29-fnm-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/official-election-results-plp-29-fnm-9","title":{"rendered":"Official Election Results: PLP 29, FNM 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17219\" title=\"bahamas-crest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bahamas-crest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bahamas-crest.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bahamas-crest-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The official results of Monday\u2019s general election show that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) won 29 seats in the House of Assembly and the Free National Movement (FNM) will occupy the remaining nine.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary Commissioner Errol Bethel told reporters during a news conference this morning that officials from the Parliamentary Registration Department were still recounting ballots up to two o\u2019clock this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it\u2019s still unclear just how many of the 172,000 people who registered to vote actually cast ballots.<\/p>\n<p>But Bethel estimates that more than 80 percent of registered voters marked their \u2018x\u2019 on Monday and in last week\u2019s advance poll.<\/p>\n<p>Up to last night, it still wasn\u2019t clear who had won in the North Andros and Berry Islands constituency and in Central and South Eleuthera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official election results indicate that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) won 29 seats in the House of Assembly and the Free National Movement (FNM) have the remaining nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[174,74,40,60,168,179],"class_list":["post-21567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-election","tag-fnm","tag-government","tag-plp","tag-politics-2","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}