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Jamaica votes 2025 | Peter Bunting makes history winning in three different constituencies

Ainsworth Morris / Our Today

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The People’s National Party’s (PNP) Peter Bunting has created history in becoming the first Jamaican to win three difference constituencies after competing in Wednesday’s general elections.

At the end of the counts from the 120 boxes in Manchester Southern, Bunting was preliminarily announced victorious with a 52% victory over the Jamaica Labour Party’s candidate, Ian Ives, who got 48% of the votes and Karen Scott who got 0% of voter turnout.

Bunting received 8,573 votes, while Ives received 7,903, and Scott received 21 votes.

With this victory, Bunting created history as the first person in Jamaica since 1944, to have won a seat in three different constituencies, first in South East Clarendon, then Central Manchester and now South Manchester.

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