Po­lit­i­cal par­ties in this British Over­seas ter­ri­to­ry are now scram­bling to form coali­tions on Thurs­day af­ter no sin­gle par­ty clinched a ma­jor­i­ty fol­low­ing  Wednes­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to two pre­lim­i­nary re­sults, the Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Move­ment won sev­en seats in Par­lia­ment, the most out of all par­ties, but was three short of a ma­jor­i­ty.

Mean­while, two new­ly formed par­ties — the Cay­man Is­lands Na­tion­al Par­ty, found­ed by a for­mer man­ag­er at Ernst & Young, and the Cay­man­ian Com­mu­ni­ty Par­ty, es­tab­lished by mem­bers of the dis­solved Unit­ed Peo­ple’s Move­ment — won four seats each.