Barbadian general election, 2003
- Barbadian general election, 2003
A general election was held in Barbados on 21 May 2003. The Barbadian people elected 30 members to the House of Assembly for a term of five years.
The ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won the largest share (23) of seats in the election.
electiontable|Barbadian legislative election, 2003"'Summary of the 21 May 2003 Barbados House of Assembly election results
-!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left width=400|Parties!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
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align="left" valign="top"|Barbados Labour Party
valign="top" |69,294
valign="top" |55.80
valign="top" |23
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align="left" valign="top"|Democratic Labour Party
valign="top" |54,746
valign="top" |44.09
valign="top" |7
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align="left" valign="top"| Independents
valign="top" |137
valign="top" |0.11
valign="top" |-
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style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="left" valign="top"|Total valid votes
width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|124,177
width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|30
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align=left valign=top|Invalid votes
valign="top"|286
valign="top" colspan="2" rowspan="3"
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align=left valign=top|Total votes cast (turnout: 56.7%)
valign="top"|124,463
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align=left valign=top|Registered voters
valign="top"|218,811
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align="left" valign="top" colspan="4"|Source: [http://www.cohobblopot.org/vob/sum2003.php Voice of Barbados]
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