No Party Wins Majority in Cayman Islands Election

• Political parties in the Cayman Islands scrambled to form coalitions on Thursday, May 1, 2025, after no single party clinched a majority following a tight general election. The People’s Progressive Movement won seven seats in Parliament, the most out of all parties, but was three short of a majority, according to preliminary results.
• Meanwhile, two newly-formed parties, the Cayman Islands National Party, founded by a former manager at Ernst & Young, and the Caymanian Community Party, established by members of the dissolved United People’s Movement, won four seats each.
• Three independent candidates also won seats in Parliament, and parties are expected to court them and form a coalition. The leader of the party that wins at least 10 of the 19 elected seats in Parliament would become the new premier.
• Voters on Monday also participated in a nonbinding referendum. They voted in favour of decriminalising the possession and consumption of small amounts of marijuana and of creating a national lottery. But they rejected a proposal to develop cruise berthing infrastructure, which environmentalists had opposed.

(Source: ABC News)