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West Bay West battle ends in shake-up
Like we just heard… among the changes after the dust settled, long-standing West Bay West representative McKeeva Bush was unseated.
Challenger Julie Hunter took the seat from Mr Bush, delivering a blow to the former Premier.
Ms Hunter secured a narrow margin of victory — just 19 votes. She ended the night with 474 votes, or 50.21 percent, against Mr Bush’s 455 votes.
This defeat marks the end of McKeeva Bush’s continuous representation of the constituency since 1984 — a period spanning over four decades.
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McKeeva Bush sets sights on new opponent: single-member constituencies
After losing an election for the first time in 40 years, McKeeva Bush said on Thursday that he was in “a state of reluctant relief”.
First-time candidate Julie Hunter won the two-person election in West Bay West by a mere 19 votes, putting an end to Bush’s 10-straight election victories.
Although he won’t have a seat in Parliament for the first time since 1984, Bush says he still has another political foe to fight.
“Single-member constituencies are the worst thing that ever happened to this country,” he said. “It is not healthy for a small-island democracy.”
Bush has never been a supporter of single-member constituencies, which became a popular idea after his United Democratic Party became the government in the 2009 election.
