Jamaica
- Jamaican general election, 1972: The Michael Manley-led opposition People's National Party (PNP) defeated the Edward Seaga-led governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with 37 of the 53 parliamentary seats.
- Jamaican general election, 1976: The Michael Manley-led governing PNP defeated the Edward Seaga-led opposition JLP with 47 of the 60 parliamentary seats.
- Jamaican general election, 1980: The Edward Seaga-led opposition JLP defeated the Michael Manley-led opposition PNP with 51 of the 60 parliamentary seats.
- Jamaican general election, 1983: The Edward Seaga-led JLP won all 60 seats in the house of representatives and 89.7% of the popular vote in an election which was not contested by the PNP.
- Jamaican general election, 1989: The Michael Manley-led PNP was returned to governance by securing 45 of the 60 parliamentary seats over the Edward Seaga-led JLP.
- Jamaican general election, 1993: The P.J. Patterson-led governing PNP dedeated the Edward Seaga-led JLP with 52 of the 60 parliamentary seats and 60.0% of the popular vote.
- Jamaican general election, 1997: The P.J. Patterson-led governing PNP dedeated the Edward Seaga-led JLP with 50 of the 60 parliamentary seats.
- Jamaican general election, 2011: The Portia Simpson-Miller-led opposition PNP was returned to power over the Andrew Holness-led JLP with 42 of the 63 parliamentary seats.
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“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”
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