Meet the Candidates

Candidates are chosen by local parties, through national party organisations - which must approve local candidates. Candidates are not required to live in the constituencies in which they run; the candidate with the most votes wins the constituency seat.

There are 42 candidates contesting seats in the General Elections to be held on 12 March 2009. Both the UPP and the ALP nominated candidates in all 16 constituencies on Antigua, while the ALP and the UPP-aligned Barbuda People’s Movement put forward candidates to vie for the lone seat on the sister island. The fledgling Organisation for National Development, contesting its first general election, nominated four candidates. There are also four independent candidates.

VIEW CANDIDATES BY PARTY

Party Candidates Antigua Labour Party (ALP) 17 United Progressive Party (UPP) 16 Barbuda People's Movement (BPM) 1 Organisation for National Development (OND) 4 Independent (IND) 4

VIEW CANDIDATES BY CONSTITUENCY OR PARTY

Constituency ALP UPP OND IND All Saints East & St. Luke Osbert FREDERICK Chester HUGHES Ralph FRANCIS - All Saints West Daven JOSEPH Chanlah CODRINGTON - Davidson BENJAMIN Barbuda Arthur NIBBS Trevor WALKER (BPM) - - St. George Dean JONAS Jacqui QUINN-LEANDRO - - St. John's City East Ronald MAGINLEY Harold LOVELL - - St. John's City South Steadroy BENJAMIN Lenworth JOHNSON Ernest MERRILL - St. John's City West Gaston BROWNE Colin DERRICK - - St. John's Rural East Lester BIRD Errol CORT Melford NICHOLAS - St. John's Rural North Charles FERNANDEZ John MAGINLEY - - St. John's Rural South Eustace LAKE Winston WILLIAMS - - St. John's Rural West Gail CHRISTIAN Baldwin SPENCER - - St. Mary's North Molwyn JOSEPH Bertrand JOSEPH - Eyon MANNING St. Mary's South Paul "Chet" GREEN Elston M. ADAMS - Shoy ATHILL Wigley GEORGE St. Paul Asot A. MICHAEL Joanne MASSIAH - - St. Peter Samantha MARSHALL Hilson BAPTISTE Glentis GOODWIN - St. Phillip North Robin YEARWOOD Elmore CHARLES - - St. Phillip South Maureen PAYNE-HYMAN Wilmoth DANIEL - -