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The rul­ing Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty (BLP) main­tained its al­most full com­mand of the 30-seat Par­lia­ment, when for­mer ed­u­ca­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion min­is­ter, Chad Black­man, won the St James North con­stituen­cy in the by-elec­tion on Wednes­day.

Pre­lim­i­nary re­sults showed that the 42-year-old Black­man, polled 2, 723 votes as against 468 for the Fe­li­cia Du­jon of the main op­po­si­tion De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Labour Par­ty (DLP). He de­feat­ed al­so Stef­fanie Williams of the Com­mu­ni­ty Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty, who got 21 votes, and Alex Mitchell of the Ba­jan Free Par­ty with sev­en votes.

“I thank God be­cause he gave me strength, he gave the team strength…but this is re­al­ly a vic­to­ry for the peo­ple for St. James North.”