If there are no major delays or a request for a recount, the results for the upcoming September 1, 2025 General and Regional elections should be available on the same night or the day after the elections, Chief Elections Officer Vishnu Persaud said.
“So far as a declaration is concerned, at the level of GECOM (Guyana Elections Commission) at the district level, we are earmarked to have declarations done by the night of, or the day after elections,” Persaud told members of the media on Monday at the end of Nomination Day activities held at the Umana Yana.
A total of seven political parties submitted their lists of candidates to contest the upcoming elections. They include the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), the Alliance for Change (AFC), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and newcomer We Invest in the Nation (WIN).
According to Persaud, staff of GECOM are trained and prepared for the elections.
Already, he said several international overseas missions are in Guyana to observe the process.
Additionally, Persaud said security measures have been introduced to ensure that the tabulation of votes are done in a “transparent manner.”
Once confirmed, Persaud said the lists of the parties contesting the elections will be posted outside his office.
And, in keeping with the law, Persaud said as soon as Statement of Polls (SOPs) are processed, it will be posted on GECOM website.
“So the requests can be known even before we declare it because you can be sitting in your sitting room and doing your own tabulation,” Persaud said.
In terms of the declaration, Persaud said “If there is a recount it would be delay.
“If there is not, I think by the second day after elections we should have a national declaration.”
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