Grenada Elections: “Its a victory for NDP”, Dickon Mitchell becomes new Prime Minister 

Dr Dickon Mitchell served as Grenada's Prime Minister for six (6) terms. He won two consecutive elections in 2013 and 2018 with a clean sweep at the polls

Grenada Elections:
Grenada Elections: "Its a victory for NDP", Dickon Mitchell becomes new Prime Minister 

Grenada: 75-year-old Dr Keith Mitchell, leader of the New National Party, was hoping to lead Grenada for a final term but lost to the Opposition’s 44-year-old Dickon Mitchell (no relation), leader of the National Democratic Congress.

Grenada has witnessed general elections on Thursday, June 23, 2022, the result of which was declared aftermath. The result made the leader of the National Democratic Congress, Dickon Mitchell new prime minister of Grenada. 

Dr Keith Mitchell served as Grenada’s Prime Minister for six (6) terms. He won two consecutive elections in 2013 and 2018 with a clean sweep at the polls.

However, this time around, he was beaten 9/6 by the younger Mitchell, who is an attorney at law.

Prior to the elections, Dr Keith Mitchell predicted his party might lose a few of the 15 seats it held for the last two terms but would win the elections.

It turned out he was right about losing a few seats but wrong about winning the elections, as attorney Dickon Mitchell sent him to the political cemetery in Grenada earlier than he anticipated.

Dickon Mitchell, Former Hugh Wooding Law Student, to become Prime Minister of Grenada. Tonight, change has come knocking on the steps of Grenada as Young Attorney at Law Dickon Mitchell, at age 44, has been declared as the next Prime Minister of Grenada.

Mitchell has said to have one the majority of seats in Thursday’s election after defeating Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.

He asserted,”I don’t know what is more impressive that he only became the political leader on October 31, 2021, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or that he is so young and fresh.” 

Dickon Mitchell’s NDC has the Majority of 9 Seats to the former Prime Minister Kieth Mitchell’s New National Party’s six seats. Just over 84,000 Grenadians were registered to vote in the elections earlier today.

The parliament of Grenada consisted of 15 total seats, from which the majority of nine seats was secured by Dickon Mitchell and the rest of them secured by former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.