Voting behaviour: The Reenergized and Fallen sympathizers

Paul Andrew Bourne

Traditionally the People's National Party (PNP) has had more ?'sympathizers' than the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) (Stone 1974, 1978), and that this could be due to: (i) the charismatic Manley factor; (ii) the policies and programmes instituted and framed by the institution; (iii) the middle class base from which it draws members and (iv) the campaign strategies, and how they resonate with the masses. I may be intrepid to say that country is substantially more PNP than JLP (See Stone 1978), and that can be noted in Stone's work (Stone 1978); as the PNP has won certainly more of the parish votes compared to the JLP. Recently a study commissioned by the Centre for Leadership and Governance (CLG), the University of the West Indies, Mona-Jamaica, has found that the PNP has 68.2% of ?'sympathizers' compared to the JLP's 75.5% (see Figure 1).


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