A heat­ed bat­tle is brew­ing be­tween the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­dates for con­trol of the close­ly con­test­ed mar­gin­al To­co/San­gre Grande seat in the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

To­co/San­gre Grande is one of the con­stituen­cies ex­pect­ed to grab at­ten­tion on April 28, as it can swing ei­ther in favour of PNM can­di­date Roger Mon­roe or UNC’s Wayne Sturge, giv­en the in­tense cam­paign­ing in the north­east­ern re­gion.

Al­though the seat is be­ing con­test­ed by can­di­dates of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA)–Chris­tine Newal­lo-Ho­sein and the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front’s Eliz­a­beth Whar­ton, con­stituents feel the fight is re­al­ly be­tween Mon­roe and first-time con­tender Sturge, an at­tor­ney.