With To­ba­go head­ing to the polls on Mon­day, at­ten­tion is on how po­lit­i­cal par­ties are con­cen­trat­ing re­sources and rhetoric on a hand­ful of mar­gin­al elec­toral dis­tricts that could ul­ti­mate­ly de­cide con­trol of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

While the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) en­ters the race as the gov­ern­ing force, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is aim­ing for a po­lit­i­cal re­vival. The con­tests in Buc­coo/Mt Pleas­ant, Dar­rel Spring/Whim, Sig­nal Hill/Pa­tience Hill, and Ply­mouth/Black Rock un­der­score just how com­pet­i­tive and un­pre­dictable this elec­tion could be.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Maukesh Bas­deo cau­tioned that this poll can­not be seen as a con­tin­u­a­tion of 2021.