With the West Bay voters giving a 1,053 “No” vote against the One Man, One Vote referendum, although 1,027 voted “Yes”, it marked the end of the road for the OMOV referendum even before the rest of the districts were counted.

When the number of voters going to the polls reached over 8,000 they must have been hoping most of the UDP West Bay voters had stayed at home, because a stay at home counted as a “No” anyway but they didn’t.

Yes, they won a moral victory but they still couldn’t get enough voters out.

West Bay, the UDP stronghold, rules the rest of the country.  The population there goes against the mood and wishes of the rest of the country but to them it doesn’t matter.

The rest of the country tried to do something about it but the stay at homers couldn’t be persuaded to come out and fight and the OMOV needed just another 13% of the electorate to vote YES.

One can only hope this is a wake-up call to every single person living here. There was no St. George winning against a dragon.

However, this could be just Round One. Maybe the OMOV campaigners can find a David?  Almost, 2 to 1 voted in favour of OMOV.  In a normal government initiated referendum, this would have been a resounding victory for the OMOV.

Final tallies:

Number of registered voters: 15,161

George Town: 5,911     West Bay: 3,685     Bodden Town: 3,467     East End: 588     North Side: 551     Cayman Brac/Little Cayman: 959