1990 British Virgin Islands general election


The British Virgin Islands general election, 1990 was held in the British Virgin Islands on 12 November 1990. The result was a decisive victory for the incumbent Virgin Islands Party led by Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt. Three other parties contested the election: the BVI United Party led by Conrad Maduro, the newly formed Progressive People's Democratic Party led by former Chief Minister Willard Wheatley, and the newly formed Independent People's Movement which fielded only two candidates. The only candidate from a party other than the VIP to be elected was Omar Hodge of the IPM in the Sixth District. Independent candidates won in the Fourth and Fifth Districts, and the VIP won every other available seat.
The supervisor of elections was Eugenie Todman-Smith. The turnout was 69.4%. In the individual seats, turnout was highest in the 9th District, a record for district turnout in the British Virgin Islands. The turnout was so high that the losing candidate in the 9th District actually secured more votes than the victorious candidate in every other district except for Lavity Stoutt in the 1st.

Results

The VIP led by Lavity Stoutt won an outright majority of 6 of the 9 available seats.

Individual seats results

First Electoral District
Second Electoral District
Third Electoral District
Fourth Electoral District
Fifth Electoral District
Sixth Electoral District
Seventh Electoral District
CandidatePolling DivisionsTotalPercentage
CandidateLong LookTotalPercentage
Terrence LETTSOME 21021050.1%
Betteto FRETT 13413432.0%
Collingston GEORGE 575713.6%
Medita WHEATLEY 12122.9%
Rejected661.4%

Eighth Electoral District
Ninth Electoral District
IPM = Independent People's Movement

PPDP = Progressive People's Democratic Party

UP = BVI United Party

VIP = Virgin Islands Party
Lavity's Stoutt's 85.8% share of the vote in the 1st District remains a record in the British Virgin Islands.