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Ter­rence Deyals­ingh’s elec­tion de­feat in Aranguez/ St Joseph may have been due in part to grow­ing dis­sat­is­fac­tion among farm­ers in the con­stituen­cy.

This was one of the ex­pla­na­tions put for­ward by res­i­dents fol­low­ing Deyals­ingh’s re­sound­ing de­feat in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Deyals­ingh, who had served as Min­is­ter of Health since be­ing elect­ed in­to of­fice in 2015, got 6,672 votes, while Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ De­vesh Ma­haraj amassed 9,908 votes.