General elections were held in the

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on 12 November 1990. The result was a decisive victory for the incumbent

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(VIP) led by

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. 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

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(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. 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 than 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.

By constituency

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: 3 Fifth Electoral District :Total number of registered voters: 910 :Total number of votes cast: 648 :Percentage of voters who voted: 71% :Spoiled ballots: 3 Sixth Electoral District :Total number of registered voters: 929 :Total number of votes cast: 647 :Percentage of voters who voted: 69.6% :Spoiled ballots: 2 Seventh 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
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Lavity's Stoutt's 85.8% share of the vote in the 1st District remains a record in the British Virgin Islands.

References

{{British Virgin Islands elections Elections in the British Virgin Islands British Virgin General election British Virgin November 1990 events in North America