U.S. Virgin Islands Re-elect governor
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The Farrelly-Hodge team took fifty-six and a half percent of the twenty-three-thousandfivehundred-andseventy-six votes cast, soundly defeating opposing candidates, former governor Juan Luis and Senator Bingley Richardson. Delegate to Congress Ron de Lugo was unopposed and took ninety-eight point six percent of the vote. Sixteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven votes were cast for the office. Voters ousted four Democratic senators: Edgar M. Iles on St. Croix; Allan Paul Shatkin and David A. Puritz on St. Thomas and Senator-At-Large Robert O'Connor Junior.
Almondo Liburd narrowly defeated O'Connor with fifty-four-point-two percent of twenty-thousand-twohundred-and-sixty-eight votes.
Incumbents reelected to the St. Thomas-St. John district were Celestino. A. White, Virgin C. Brown, Elmo D. Roebuck and Lorraine L. Berry. Newly elected were Malcolm C. Callender, Stephanie Scott-Williams and Arturo Watlington Junior.
For St. Croix, reelected incumbents were Alicia Hansen, Liliana Belardo de O'Neal, John F. Tutein, Holland L. Redfield the second, senate president Bent Lawaetz and St. Claire Williams. Former senator Adelbert Bryan took the seat vacated by Senator Bingley G. Richardson, who ran for lieutenant-governor.
Sixty-one percent of the thirteen thousand, six hundred and seventy-six votes cast on the municipal government referendum were affirmative. But the sixty-one percent wasn't enough to pass the referendum. The law requires fifty percent plus one of all registered voters to say "yes" before legislative action can be initiated. Thus, nineteen thousand three hundred and thirty-five voters would have had to say 'yes' to the referendum.
Election board winners included Garry Sprauve, Gerald Hodge and Elise Vialet for St. Thomas-St. John; Alicia Torres-James, Chesley Roebuck and Eulalia Rivera for St. Croix.
