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2025 General Election
The Cayman Islands electorate has spoken. Out of a field of 58 candidates, 19 have been selected to represent their various constituencies in the House of Parliament.
The nearly 24-hour-long process felt like a rollercoaster at times, as the numbers trickled in.
Cayman Compass journalist Andrel Harris takes a look back at the 2025 General Election.
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Cayman Compass
Five winning candidates failed to get a majority of votes
More than 68% of the voters in Red Bay voted against Roy Tatum. More than 61% of the voters in George Town East voted against incumbent Roy McTaggart. Yet both of these People’s Progressive Movement candidates won seats in Parliament on Wednesday because the number of candidates in each of their respective constituencies diluted the vote.
Local politicians like to call this “cannibalisation,” a phenomenon that allows candidates to win with a plurality – also known as a relative majority – of votes rather than a simple majority of at least 50% plus one of the votes.
Tatum, a long-time PPM advisor, was running for the first time for the Parliament seat previously held by Sir Alden McLaughlin for 24 years. He faced off against four other candidates in Red Bay, narrowly defeating The Caymanian Community Party candidate Natasha Whitelocke by just 33 votes.
