KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept 18, CMC – The defeated candidate of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP), Paul Buchanan, says he has filed an application to void the results in the St Andrew West Central constituency in the September 3 general elections.
Buchanan, who was defeated by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, filed the application on Wednesday with the Constituted Authority, which now has two weeks to decide whether to send a petition to the Election Court.
Holness, the leader of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), who became the first prime minister to win three consecutive general elections in Jamaica, won the St Andrew West Central constituency, securing 7,054 votes as against 4,953 votes for Buchanan.
In his application to have the results void, Buchanan cited what he said was violence and intimidation in the Olympic Gardens and Molynes Gardens Divisions as well as invasion by JLP operatives at a polling station and irregular transportation of 18 ballot boxes from that polling to the counting centre resulting in their arrival at 10:00 pm (local time).
(Details in Politics section)
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