Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne’s gam­ble of call­ing a gen­er­al elec­tion near­ly two years ahead of the con­sti­tu­tion­al dead­line paid off on Thurs­day, when he guid­ed his rul­ing An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Labour Par­ty (ABLP) to a com­mand­ing vic­to­ry.

Pre­lim­i­nary re­sults show that the ABLP had won 15 of the 17 seats at stake in the elec­tion, re­vers­ing the slim vic­to­ry it had achieved in Jan­u­ary 2023, when the par­ty scraped home by a 9-7 mar­gin.

“We are hum­bled and ho­n­oured by your sup­port and con­fi­dence. Now is the time to move for­ward to­geth­er, build on our gains and con­tin­ue our work on this long jour­ney to­ward the bet­ter­ment of our so­ci­ety and the up­lift­ment of our peo­ple. From each and every one of us, THANK YOU,” Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne wrote on the of­fi­cial Face­book page of the rul­ing par­ty.