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Pre­lim­i­nary re­sults from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, held on Mon­day, April 28, show the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) won with a com­mand­ing to­tal of 334,874 votes and se­cured 26 of the 41 par­lia­men­tary seats, ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).

The to­tal num­ber of votes cast was 617,712, rep­re­sent­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 54 per cent turnout from the reg­is­tered elec­torate of 1,153,850 vot­ers across 41 con­stituen­cies.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) fol­lowed with 220,160 votes, win­ning 13 seats, while the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) se­cured 13,857 votes and claimed 2 seats. The Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) al­so made a no­table show­ing, earn­ing 9,379 votes, al­though it did not win any seats.