1978 Montserratian General Election
General elections were held in Montserrat in November 1978.General Election Results - November 1978
Caribbean Elections The result was a victory for the People's Liberation Movement (Montserrat), People's Liberation Movement (PLM), which won all seven seats in the Legislative Council of Montserrat, Legislative Council. PLM leader John Osborne (Montserrat politician), John Osborne became Chief Minister of Montserrat, Chief Minister.

Campaign

A total of 18 candidates contested the elections; both the PLM and the ruling Progressive Democratic Party (Montserrat), Progressive Democratic Party nominated seven candidates, with four independents also running.

Results

Elected MPs

References

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Montserrat
Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with roughly of coastline. It is nicknamed "The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean" both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish diaspora, Irish ancestry of many of its inhabitants. Montserrat is the only non-fully sovereign full member of the Caribbean Community and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. On 18 July 1995, the previously dormant Soufrière Hills volcano, in the southern part of the island, became active. Eruptions destroyed Montserrat's Georgian era capital city of Plymouth, Montserrat, Plymouth. Between 1995 and 2000, two-thirds of the island's population was forced to flee, primarily to the United Kingdom, leaving fewer than 1,200 people on the island in 1997 (rising to nearly 5,000 by 2016). The volcanic ac ...
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