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coalition loosely affiliated to the United Party. But as has been recorded: "The 1975 General
Elections did not produce a clear majority for any party and the loyalties, which appeared to have existed prior to and in the course of the election campaign, fell apart in the aftermath. Mr. W.W. Wheatly again emerged as Chief Minister, but with a different team."
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The 1975 general election was something of a dangerous crossroad for
British Virgin Islands politics. The first party political election in 1967 had been won by the United Party. However, internal struggles relating to who should be leader led to the party fragmenting before the next election.
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and Chief
Minister Willard Wheatley led Wheatley to remove Osborne from his Ministerial seat. The resulting discord meant that, despite technically being the party in power, the VI Democratic Party did not actually promote any candidates at all for the 1975 election - Wheatley left to form an
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In reality the election provided no clear consensus, and when the election was over, successful candidates dropped their prior allegiances and tried to broker deals that would enable them to secure power. At the end of this process
Willard Wheatley retained his role as Chief Minister and led a
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won the election in a coalition with the United Party. Although the United Party only won two seats, fewer than the Virgin
Islands Party (which won three), Wheatley was able to assemble a coalition and remain Chief Minister and at the head of government.
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Austin Henley was a former member of the VI Democratic Party, but ran as a United Party candidate. However, after the election he was named
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on 1 September 1975. The result was one of the most confused in the
Territory's history, but is officially recorded as a victory for the
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to win the 1971 election, but exactly the same thing happened to them: disagreements between party leader
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alliance with the United Party, and
Osborne left to join the Virgin Islands Party.
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Candidates elected for the first time included future Chief
Minister and Premier,
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Oliver Cills was elected unopposed in the 3rd
District.
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British Virgin Islands
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22:1975 British Virgin Islands general election
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76:British Virgin Islands Legislative Council
1590:Elections in the British Virgin Islands
1406:Elections in the British Virgin Islands
1605:September 1975 events in North America
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79:4 seats needed for a majority
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967:Qwominer William Osborne
333:Leader of the Opposition
850:Isaac Glanville Fonseca
577:Hamilton Lavity Stoutt
276:British Virgin Islands
867:Walter Lindy DeCastro
1233:Virgin Islands Party
1115:Virgin Islands Party
1110:Terrance B. Lettsome
973:Virgin Islands Party
819:Virgin Islands Party
719:Virgin Islands Party
583:Virgin Islands Party
411:VI Progressive Party
370:Virgin Islands Party
288:Virgin Islands Party
286:over the opposition
1287:Invalid/blank votes
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1153:Invalid/blank votes
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1031:Invalid/blank votes
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909:Invalid/blank votes
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757:Invalid/blank votes
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639:Invalid/blank votes
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309:VI Democratic Party
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161:Leader's seat
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715:Stanford Connor
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340:Ralph T. O'Neal
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1188:7th District
1095:United Party
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1066:6th District
993:United Party
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944:5th District
871:United Party
813:
792:4th District
701:United Party
695:
674:2nd District
598:Cyril Romney
575:
554:1st District
549:
449:Independents
430:Oliver Cills
391:United Party
337:
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323:
313:Q.W. Osborne
305:
296:
280:United Party
271:
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260:(Coalition)
257:United Party
251:
244:
240:(Coalition)
231:
224:
144:United Party
99:First party
49:
18:
1298:Total votes
1276:Valid votes
1250:Independent
1216:Independent
1164:Total votes
1142:Valid votes
1042:Total votes
1020:Valid votes
920:Total votes
898:Valid votes
854:Independent
768:Total votes
746:Valid votes
650:Total votes
628:Valid votes
602:Independent
513:Total votes
487:Valid votes
1584:Categories
833:Noel Lloyd
302:Background
54:1975-09-01
1322:Footnotes
1193:Candidate
1071:Candidate
949:Candidate
797:Candidate
679:Candidate
559:Candidate
245:Elected
320:Results
282:led by
116:Leader
107:
96:
84:Turnout
52: (
1304:100.00
1267:100.00
1170:100.00
1133:100.00
1048:100.00
1011:100.00
926:100.00
889:100.00
774:100.00
737:100.00
656:100.00
619:100.00
519:100.00
472:100.00
135:Party
1349:(PDF)
1342:(PDF)
1315:87.00
1282:99.17
1261:Total
1240:35.56
1222:64.02
1199:Votes
1196:Party
1181:73.06
1148:98.69
1127:Total
1122:47.27
1102:52.73
1077:Votes
1074:Party
1059:74.33
1026:98.27
1005:Total
1000:43.23
980:56.77
955:Votes
952:Party
937:67.93
904:98.56
883:Total
860:12.55
842:18.62
826:60.25
803:Votes
800:Party
785:68.66
752:97.69
731:Total
726:49.87
708:50.13
685:Votes
682:Party
667:79.26
634:99.55
613:Total
608:24.94
590:75.06
565:Votes
562:Party
532:74.56
529:4,018
516:2,996
493:98.66
490:2,956
469:2,956
466:Total
455:16.20
398:26.96
377:53.82
374:1,591
359:Seats
353:Votes
350:Party
156:1975
153:1971
87:74.6%
1569:2023
1564:2019
1559:2015
1554:2011
1549:2007
1544:2003
1539:1999
1534:1995
1529:1990
1524:1986
1519:1983
1514:1979
1509:1975
1504:1971
1499:1967
1494:1963
1489:1960
1484:1957
1479:1954
1474:1950
1466:1867
1461:1865
1456:1862
1451:1858
1443:1838
1438:1837
1430:1777
1422:1773
1417:1735
1293:0.83
1256:0.42
1159:1.31
1037:1.73
915:1.44
878:8.58
763:2.31
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506:1.34
436:0.00
417:3.01
294:.
62:1979
45:1971
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