12 November 1990 (1990-11-12) 1995 → 1971 1971 1st District 2nd District | Turnout 69.4% 1971 1990 2nd District 8th District | |
The British Virgin Islands general election, 1990 was held in the British Virgin Islands on 12 November 1990. The result was a decisive victory for the incumbent Virgin Islands Party (VIP) led by Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt. Three other parties contested the election: the BVI United Party (UP) led by Conrad Maduro (which fielded six candidates), the newly formed Progressive People's Democratic Party (PPDP) led by former Chief Minister Willard Wheatley (which fielded five candidates), and the newly formed Independent People's Movement (IPM) which fielded only two candidates. The only candidate from a party other than the VIP to be elected was Omar Hodge of the IPM in the Sixth District (Omar Hodge was a former member of the VIP and would later rejoin that party). Independent candidates won in the Fourth and Fifth Districts, and the VIP won every other available seat.
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The supervisor of elections was Eugenie Todman-Smith. The turnout was 69.4%. In the individual seats, turnout was highest in the 9th District (91.1%), a record for district turnout in the British Virgin Islands. The turnout was so high that the losing candidate in the 9th District (Allen O'Neal) actually secured more votes that the victorious candidate in every other district except for Lavity Stoutt in the 1st.
Results
The VIP led by Lavity Stoutt won an outright majority of 6 of the 9 available seats.
Individual seats results
First Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 1,109 Total number of votes cast: 606 Percentage of voters who voted: 55%Second Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 533 Total number of votes cast: 359 Percentage of voters who voted: 67.4%Third Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 836 Total number of votes cast: 540 Percentage of voters who voted: 64.6%Fourth Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 897 Total number of votes cast: 640 Percentage of voters who voted: 71.3% Spoiled ballots: 3Fifth Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 910 Total number of votes cast: 648 Percentage of voters who voted: 71% Spoiled ballots: 3Sixth Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 929 Total number of votes cast: 647 Percentage of voters who voted: 69.6% Spoiled ballots: 2Seventh Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 550 Total number of votes cast: 419 Percentage of voters who voted: 76.2%Eighth Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 724 Total number of votes cast: 525 Percentage of voters who voted: 72.5%Ninth Electoral District
Total number of registered voters: 959 Total number of votes cast: 874 Percentage of voters who voted: 91.1%IPM = Independent People's Movement
PPDP = Progressive People's Democratic Party
UP = BVI United Party
VIP = Virgin Islands Party
Lavity's Stoutt's 85.8% share of the vote in the 1st District remains a record in the British Virgin Islands.