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Elections 2025
Update 3:10am: Coalition talks under way
The election is over now the horse trading begins. Everyone said they wanted to avoid it but Cayman is right back where it was in 2021 with an indecisive result and a long night and possibly days of coalition talks to come.
The TCCP and CINP will likely come together quickly. They may wish they had done so sooner given the handful of races where their candidates took votes from each other and both ended up losing out to PPM.
So the split, we believe right now, is 8-8, with three of the four Independents yet to make definitive statements about where they will go. We’re calling it a night on the live updates here. Stand by for the full coverage of the election.
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Cayman Compass
Update 2:15am: Independents hold the key
As we see it now, it looks like it could end with CINP and TCCP ready to talk. That’s at least eight for that coalition. So if they can persuade Jay Ebanks and Isaac Rankine to come and work with them – that could be the ballgame.
PPM look like they will get seven and possibly add Chris Saunders to make eight. We’re not sure which way Rolston Anglin is leaning, so that’s another call to be made.
Reminder that Dan Scott, the CINP leader, lost his own race tonight, and Gary Rutty is being tipped to lead that group. No doubt Scott will have a hand in coalition talks, too.
As it stands, all possible results are on the table and that might well be the case even when the results are finalised.
