British Virgin Islands general election, 2007

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August 20, 2007 (2007-08-20)

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All seats in the British Virgin Islands House of Assembly
7 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

62.3%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Orlando Smith	Ralph T. O'Neal
Party	National Democratic Party	Virgin Islands Party
Leader since	1999	1995
Leader's seat	At-large	9th District
Last election	8 seats, 52.4%	5 seats, 42.2%
Seats before	8	5
Seats won	2	10
Seat change	-6	+5
Percentage	39.6%	45.2%
Swing	-12.8%	+3.0%

Premier before election

Orlando Smith
National Democratic Party

Elected Premier

Ralph T. O'Neal
Virgin Islands Party

Orlando Smith
National Democratic Party

Ralph T. O'Neal
Virgin Islands Party

The British Virgin Islands general election, 2007 was held in the British Virgin Islands on 20 August 2007. The result was a landslide victory for the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) over the incumbent National Democratic Party (NDP).

The VIP took 7 of the 9 district seats (of the remaining district seats, only 1 was taking by the NDP; the other was taken by Alvin Christopher, an independent candidate endorsed by the VIP). The VIP also took 3 out of the 4 territorial at-large seats. The only two NDP candidates to retain their seats were former Chief Minister Orlando Smith and seventh district representative Kedrick Pickering. VIP at-large candidate Zoë McMillan-Walcott had initially asked for a recount of her vote against Orlando Smith for the fourth at-large seat (the initial count indicated her to have received only 18 fewer votes), but she subsequently withdrew the request.[1]

The victory gave the VIP an unprecedented 10 elected seats out of the 13 available in the House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands, despite receiving only a mere 5.6% greater share of the votes than the NDP (45.2% to 39.6%).

Voter turnout was relatively high, with approximately 62.3% of registered voters casting votes; although this was some way lower than the 72.2% voter turnout for the 2003 election. The lowest turnout was in the fifth district, where only 49.3% of voters cast votes; the highest was the eighth district, where 76.2% turnout was recorded.

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