(CNS Elections): With independents securing three major PPM ministers’ scalps and the CDP failing to secure any seats outside of West Bay, the final results have left Cayman facing significant uncertainty over who will lead the next government. The results were all in well before midnight, but the question of who will lead the next government and who will be sitting in Cabinet is completely up in the air.

With all nineteen seats counted, the tally was nine independents, seven PPM and just three for the CDP.

The PPM secured some surprise results, with Barbara Connolly taking the George Town South seat with 40.6% of the vote, ahead of Mike Adam who had been tiped to take the seat but in the end secured just over 33%. Paul Hurlston, Catherine Tyson and Alric Lindsey all lost their deposits after failing to secure 10% of the vote.

Over in West Bay there was no change. McKeeva Bush secured 76% of the vote taking his WBW seat easily. Bernie Bush received 54% of the vote in WBN and Capt. Eugene Ebanks secured 56% in his head-to-head race in WBC. Tara Rivers (IND) took 53.8% in WBS, well ahead of CDP candidate John Jefferson.

The Results in Cayman’s first ever election under OMOV in SMCs are as follows:

West Bay North – Bernie Bush, CDP

West Bay West – McKeeva Bush, CDP

West Bay Central – Capt. Eugene Ebanks, CDP

West Bay South – Tara Rivers, Ind

George Town North – Joey Hew, Progressives

George Town West – David Wight, Progressives

George Town Central – Kenneth Bryan, Ind

George Town South – Barbara Conolly, Progressives

George Town East – Roy McTaggart, Progressives

Red Bay – Alden McLaughlinPremier of the Cayman Islands, Progressives

Prospect – Austin Harris, Ind

Savannah – Anthony Eden, Ind

Newlands – Alva Suckoo, Ind

Bodden Town West – Christopher Saunders, Ind

Bodden Town East – Dwayne Seymour, Ind

North Side – Ezzard Miller, Ind

East End – Arden McLean, Ind

Cayman Brac West and Little Cayman – Moses Kirkconnell, Progressives

Cayman Brac East – Juliana O’Connor Connolly, Progressives.

Check back to CNS later today for full details and analysis of the results.

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