2016 Jamaican general election
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All 63 seats in the House of Representatives 32 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 48.4% ( 4.8 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results by constituency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Jamaica on 25 February 2016. The elections were largely a contest between the governing People's National Party (PNP) and the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). The result was a narrow victory for the JLP, which won 32 of the 63 seats. One political commentator described the poll as "the closest election Jamaica has ever had".
The JLP's share of the vote was the lowest for a winning party since 1962, when the JLP won 50.1% of the vote, and its resulting majority in the House of Representatives was the narrowest since the 1949 elections. A similarly close election occurred in 2007, in which two seats changed hands on recounts.