2022 United States Virgin Islands general election
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The 2022 United States Virgin Islands general election took place on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, to elect the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, all fifteen seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands and non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
Gubernatorial election[edit]
Incumbent Democratic Governor Albert Bryan was elected to a second four-year term in office, receiving 56% of the vote. He ran against Independent candidate and territorial senator Kurt Vialet, independent activist Ronald Pickard, and former ICM senator Stephen Frett.
Endorsements[edit]
- Democratic Governors Association[1]
- Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands
- West End Democratic Club St. Croix[2]
- Donna Christensen, former Delegate to Congress
- Jaime Harrison, Chair of the Democratic National Committee (2021–present)
- Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico (2021–present)[3][4][5]
- Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica (2004-present)[6][7][8]
- Cedric Armstrong, owner of Armstrong Ice Cream
- Dr. Brittany Dawson, certified nurse‐midwife
- Nereida Rivera-O'Reilly, former St. Croix Senator (2009–2019)
Debates[edit]
The Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands scheduled a forum with WTJX-TV for July 14, 2022. Three days prior, the Bernier-Benta team withdrew from the traditional forum and insisted on a debate with Bryan and Roach.[9]
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No. | Date and time | Host | Location | Moderator | Participants | |||||||||||
1 | October 12, 2022 | University of the Virgin Islands | St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | Laverne E. Ragster, PH.D. and Susan V. Ellis of AARP | Albert Bryan, Ronald Pickard, Kurt Vialet | |||||||||||
2 | October 13, 2022, 7:00-8:00P.M. | Good Hope Country Day School | Christiansted | Ernice Gilbert of The Virgin Islands Consortium | Albert Bryan, Kurt Vialet | |||||||||||
2022 U.S. Virgin Islands lieutenant gubernatorial debates | ||||||||||||||||
1 | October 10, 2022, 7:00-8:00P.M. | WTJX Studio | Christiansted | Ernice Gilbert of The Virgin Islands Consortium | Tregenza Roach, Janelle K. Sarauw |
Delegate to the United States House of Representatives[edit]
The U.S. Virgin Island's non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term in office. Incumbent delegate Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat who was first elected in 2014, and most recently re-elected with 88.1% of the vote in 2020, won re-election to a fifth term.
Results[edit]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Stacey Plaskett (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 16,354 | 98.74 | |
Write in | 209 | 1.26 | ||
Total | 16,563 | 100.00 |
Legislature of the Virgin Islands[edit]
The Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands won 11 out of 15 seats. During the primary election, the top seven candidates from both the St. Croix District and St. Thomas/St. John District who receive the highest votes would proceed to the general election while the At-Large District would elect one candidate.[10][11] In the St. Thomas/St. John District, a seat once held by Independent Senator Janelle Sarauw became vacant when she ran for lieutenant governor but was flipped by Democrat Ray Foncesa. Incumbent Genevieve Whitaker from the St. Croix District lost re-election due to her stance on the integration of VI and Caribbean history into the school curriculum and popularity among new candidates.
Novelle Francis was selected Senate President for a second time by his Democratic colleagues following the election.[12]
Polling[edit]
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Albert Bryan (D) |
Kent Bernier (D) |
None |
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I AM LLC | June 5, 2022 | 752 | ±3.53 | 61% | 23% | 15% |
June 30, 2022 | 59% | 24% | 15% |
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Region | Sample size |
Margin of error |
Kurt Vialet (I) |
Albert Bryan (D) |
Stephen Frett (ICM) | Ronald Pickard (I) |
Undecided None |
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I AM LLC | May 10, 2022 | Territory-wide | 400 | – | 29% | 33% | – | 9% | 16% |
I AM LLC | May 10, 2022 | St. Croix | 400 | – | 44% | 20% | |||
I AM LLC | May 10, 2022 | St. Thomas/St. John | 400 | – | 14% | 46% | |||
VI Tech Stack | September 7–13, 2022 | Territory-wide | ± 3.82% | 650 | 25% | 48% | 1% | 1% | 23% |
VI Tech Stack | September 7–13, 2022 | St. Thomas/St. John | 400 | ± 4.86% | 18% | 58% | 0% | 1% | 21% |
VI Tech Stack | September 7–13, 2022 | St. Croix | 250 | ± 6.17% | 34% | 37% | 0% | 1% | 25% |
I AM LLC | October 31, 2022 | Territory-wide | 423 | ± 4.74% | 44% | 40% | 4% | 0% | 10% |
I AM LLC | October 31, 2022 | St. Croix | 224 | ± 6.53% | 46% | 42% | 6% | 1% | 3% |
I AM LLC | October 31, 2022 | St. Thomas | 199 | ± 6.92% | 38% | 38% | 3% | 0% | 19% |
I AM LLC | October 31, 2022 | St. John | 199 | ± 6.92% | 66% | 22% | 0% | 0% | 11% |
- USVI Public Schools Mock Election Results
Poll source | School district | Date(s) administered |
Vialet / Sarauw | Bryan / Roach | Pickard / Turnbull | Frett / Miller |
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IEKHS | St. Thomas/St. John | October 21, 2022 | 167 | 155 | 87 | 46 |
CAHS | St. Thomas/St. John | October 21–25, 2022 | 185 | 173 | 79 | 29 |
St. Croix Educational Complex | St. Croix | October 21, 2022 | 283 | 120 | 16 | 42 |
St. Croix Central High School | St. Croix | October 28, 2022 | 279 | 226 | 23 | 38 |
Lew Muckle Elementary School | St. Croix | 53 | 26 | 6 | 0 |
Poll source | District | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Angel Bolques (D) |
Sherry Ann-Francis (I) |
Undecided |
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VI Tech Stack | At-Large | September 7-13, 2022 | 650 | ± 3.82% | 42% | 21% | 36% |
Results[edit]
Gubernatorial election[edit]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Albert Bryan Jr. (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 4,269 | 65.04 | |
Kent Bernier Sr. | Democratic Party | 2,255 | 34.35 | |
Write in | 40 | 0.61 | ||
Total | 6,564 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 34,697 | – |
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Albert Bryan Jr. (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,656 | 53.33 | |
Kent Bernier Sr. | Democratic Party | 1,432 | 46.12 | |
Write in | 17 | 0.55 | ||
Total | 3,105 | 100.00 |
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Albert Bryan Jr. (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 2,613 | 75.54 | |
Kent Bernier Sr. | Democratic Party | 823 | 23.79 | |
Write in | 23 | 0.66 | ||
Total | 3,459 | 100.00 |
Candidate | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Albert Bryan Jr. | Tregenza Roach | Democratic Party | 12,157 | 56.14 | |
Kurt Vialet | Janelle K. Sarauw | Independent | 8,244 | 38.07 | |
Stephen "Smokey" Frett | Gregory R. Miller Jr. | Independent Citizens Movement | 740 | 3.42 | |
Ronald Pickard | Elroy Turnbull | Independent | 243 | 1.12 | |
Write in | 272 | 1.26 | |||
Total | 21,656 | 100.00 | |||
Total votes | 22,557 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 39,910 | 56.52 | |||
Source: [13] |
Legislative election[edit]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Angel Bolques Jr. (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 3,777 | 77.22 | |
Steven D. Payne Sr. | Democratic Party | 1,067 | 21.82 | |
Write in | 47 | 0.96 | ||
Total | 4,891 | 100.00 |
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Donna Frett-Gregory (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 2,211 | 17.03 | |
Milton Potter (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 2,141 | 16.49 | |
Carla Joseph (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,656 | 12.76 | |
Marvin Blyden (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,631 | 12.56 | |
Joel S. Browne Connors | Democratic Party | 1,105 | 8.51 | |
Lawerence Boschulte | Democratic Party | 1,095 | 8.43 | |
Ray Foncesa | Democratic Party | 1,095 | 8.43 | |
Shenelle Fina Francis | Democratic Party | 995 | 7.66 | |
Ke’Shawn K.J. Louis | Democratic Party | 599 | 4.61 | |
Teofilo Ciprian | Democratic Party | 371 | 2.86 | |
Write in | 83 | 0.64 | ||
Total | 12,982 | 100.00 |
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Kenneth Gittens (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,771 | 14.23 | |
Novelle Francis (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,732 | 13.92 | |
Marise C. James (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,693 | 13.60 | |
Diane T. Capehart | Democratic Party | 1,477 | 11.87 | |
Nemmy Williams Jackson | Democratic Party | 1,296 | 10.41 | |
Javan James Sr. (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,241 | 9.97 | |
Genevieve Whittaker (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 1,229 | 9.88 | |
Hubert Frederick | Democratic Party | 1,220 | 9.80 | |
Troy C. Williams | Democratic Party | 751 | 6.04 | |
Write in | 34 | 0.27 | ||
Total | 12,444 | 100.00 |
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Angel Bolques Jr. (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 8,776 | 50.49 | |
Sherry-Ann Francis | Independent | 8,532 | 49.09 | |
Write in | 72 | 0.41 | ||
Total | 17,380 | 100.00 | ||
Total votes | 22,557 | – | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 39,910 | 56.52 | ||
Source: [14] |
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Donna Frett-Gregory (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 6,306 | 12.98 | |
Milton E. Potter (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 6,004 | 12.36 | |
Marvin Blyden (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 5,497 | 11.32 | |
Dwayne M. DeGraff (incumbent) | Independent | 5,388 | 11.09 | |
Carla Joseph (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 5,179 | 10.66 | |
Alma Francis-Heyliger (incumbent) | Independent | 4,897 | 10.08 | |
Ray Fonseca | Democratic Party | 4,083 | 8.41 | |
Joel S. Browne Connors | Democratic Party | 3,576 | 7.36 | |
Dawn Lisa Henry | Independent | 3,111 | 6.41 | |
Lawrence Boschulte | Democratic Party | 2,791 | 5.75 | |
Margaret Price | Independent Citizens Movement | 1,472 | 3.03 | |
Write in | 266 | 0.55 | ||
Total | 48,570 | 100.00 | ||
Source: [14] |
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Kenneth Gittens (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 5,529 | 10.16 | |
Novelle Francis (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 5,262 | 9.67 | |
Franklin D. Johnson (incumbent) | Independent | 4,796 | 8.81 | |
Samuel Carrion (incumbent) | Independent | 4,599 | 8.45 | |
Marise C. James (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 4,472 | 8.22 | |
Javan James Sr. (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 4,278 | 7.86 | |
Diane T. Capehart | Democratic Party | 3,686 | 6.77 | |
Nemmy Williams-Jackson | Democratic Party | 3,510 | 6.45 | |
Genevieve Whitaker (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 3,402 | 6.25 | |
Michael J. Springer | Independent | 2,467 | 4.53 | |
Devin Carrington | Independent | 2,384 | 4.38 | |
Patricia M. James | Independent | 2,274 | 4.18 | |
Norman Baptiste | Independent | 1,869 | 3.43 | |
Leonardo Carrion Sr. | Independent | 1,394 | 2.56 | |
Tyrone Molyneaux | Independent Citizens Movement | 1,069 | 1.96 | |
Shalima A. Edwards | Independent | 1,032 | 1.90 | |
Julian S. Viera | Independent | 836 | 1.54 | |
James P. G. "Moonark" Wakefield | Independent | 757 | 1.39 | |
Marilyn T. Hodge | Independent | 670 | 1.23 | |
Write in | 135 | 0.25 | ||
Total | 54,421 | 100.00 | ||
Source: [14] |
References[edit]
- ^ "DGA Statement on Gov. Albert Bryan Jr.'s Reelection Announcement". DGA. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "West End Democratic Club Endorses the Bryan/Roach Team". St. Thomas Source. May 25, 2022.
- ^ "Campaign Rally - Pedro Pierluisi". Facebook. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ "A message from the Governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi". Facebook. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
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- ^ "Campaign Rally -Roosevelt Skerrit". Facebook. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
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- ^ "The Virgin Islands Consortium". The Virgin Islands Consortium. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ "Bernier-Benta Gubernatorial Team Backs Out of Forum With Bryan and Roach; Cecile Benjamin 'Flabbergasted' at Withdrawal". The Virgin Islands Consortium.
- ^ "Incumbents Retain Senate Seats, Six Newcomers Added in Primary". 2022-07-08.
- ^ "2022 Primary Election". Election System of the Virgin Islands.
- ^ "Novelle Francis Chosen as New Senate President, Gittens as Majority Leader; Frett-Gregory to Chair Finance, Capehart to Chair Rules". The Virgin Islands Consortium.
- ^ "2022 General Election". Election System of the Virgin Islands.
- ^ a b c "2022 General Election". Election System of the Virgin Islands.