General elections were held in
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, wit ...
on 8 October 1991.
[General Election Results - 8 October 1991]
Caribbean Elections The result was a victory for the
National Progressive Party (NPP), which won four of the seven seats in the
Legislative Council
A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state. It was commonly used to label unicameral or upper house legislative bodies in the Brit ...
. NPP leader
Reuben Meade
Reuben Theodore Meade (born 7 March 1954) is a politician from Montserrat who has served as the Premier of Montserrat since 2024. He previously served as the island's first Premier between 2011 and 2014 as well as Chief Minister
A chief mini ...
became
Chief Minister
A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union ter ...
.
[
]
Background
The People's Liberation Movement (PLM) had won the 1987 elections, taking four of the seven seats in the Legislative Council. However, Minister of Communications Benjamin Chalmers
Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...
left the party over corruption allegations, meaning it lost its majority.[South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002, Psychology Press, p565][ As a result, early elections were called.][
]
Campaign
A total of 26 candidates contested the elections, more than ever before.[ The NPP nominated seven candidates, the National Development Party six, and the PLM four. The remaining nine candidates ran as independents.][
]
Results
References
{{Montserratian elections
Elections in Montserrat
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, wit ...
1991 in Montserrat
1991 elections in British Overseas Territories
October 1991 in North America