Grenada General election 2026 — Live Results & Map

The election in brief

Grenada votes on Thursday 5 November 2026 to elect all 15 members of its House of Representatives. Parliament was dissolved and the writ for the election issued on 2 October 2026 on the advice of Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, who announced the polling date at a rally of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) in St Mark on 4 October. Candidates were nominated on 15 October and police officers vote early on 2 November. The election decides whether the NDC, which won power in 2022, can hold it — something the party has never managed — or whether the New National Party (NNP) returns under a new leader.

How the vote works

Grenada, a three-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, is a parliamentary democracy with King Charles III as head of state, represented by a Governor-General. Each of the 15 constituencies elects one member by first-past-the-post: the candidate with the most votes wins, with no run-off. A party needs eight seats for a majority, and the leader who commands it becomes prime minister. The upper house, the Senate, is appointed rather than elected. Under the Elections Act, polling runs from six in the morning to five in the afternoon.

The 2022 result

At the previous election, in June 2022, the NDC — led by Dickon Mitchell, an attorney who had entered frontline politics the year before — won nine of the 15 seats and ended the NNP's time in government; the NNP, then still led by its founder and long-serving prime minister Keith Mitchell, took the other six. Since its formation in 1987 the NDC has won three general elections, in 1990, 2008 and 2022, but never two in a row. The NNP, by contrast, is the only party in Grenada's history to have won every seat, which it has done three times.

The parties

The NDC is fielding candidates in all 15 constituencies, with Dickon Mitchell defending his own seat of St David and asking voters for a second term. The NNP also contests all 15. It is led by Emmalin Pierre, a former teacher and government minister who succeeded Keith Mitchell in 2024 and is the first woman to lead the party into a general election; if the NNP wins and she holds her seat, she would become Grenada's first female prime minister. Keith Mitchell — no relation to the prime minister — has bowed out of active politics after 42 years as the member for St George North West, so this is the first election in decades without him on the NNP's ballot.

A third force is the Democratic People's Movement (DPM), launched in November 2025 by Peter David, a former foreign affairs minister who has represented the Town of St George in four general elections since 2003 — twice for the NDC, then twice for the NNP, which he left in 2025. The DPM has nominated candidates in nine constituencies. Its test is whether it can win seats beyond its leader's own.

Seats to watch

With a nine-to-six House, a swing of two seats changes the government. St Andrew South East is a rematch: Pierre has held it since 2013 and beat the NDC's David Andrew, now education minister, by 233 votes in 2022. In the Town of St George, Peter David defends the seat he won for the NNP under his new party's banner. In St David the prime minister himself is on the ballot. No credible, published opinion polling with a stated method has appeared for this election, so this page makes no forecast.

Election night

Polls are open from 06:00 to 17:00 Atlantic Standard Time, which is 10:00 to 21:00 UTC. Ballots are counted at the polling stations after the close and each constituency's result is declared by its returning officer. The results will appear on this page, seat by seat, as soon as they are published, with vote counts as officially reported.

Sources

Election date and calendar: the Government Gazette as reported by the Caribbean Media Corporation, and The New Today; polling hours: the Elections Act (section 36); slates of candidates: NOW Grenada and St Vincent Times.

Frequently asked questions

When is the 2026 Grenada general election?

On Thursday 5 November 2026. Parliament was dissolved and the writ issued on 2 October, candidates were nominated on 15 October, and police officers vote early on 2 November.

Who governs Grenada now?

Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which won 9 of the 15 seats in June 2022. The New National Party (NNP), led by Emmalin Pierre, holds the other six and forms the opposition.

How does the electoral system work?

Each of the 15 constituencies elects one member of the House of Representatives by first-past-the-post. A party needs 8 seats for a majority, and its leader becomes prime minister. The Senate is appointed, not elected.

Who is standing?

The NDC and the NNP have candidates in all 15 constituencies. The Democratic People's Movement (DPM), founded in November 2025 by former foreign minister Peter David, contests nine.

When will results be available?

Polls close at 17:00 local time (21:00 UTC). Ballots are counted at the polling stations after the close; results will appear on this page as soon as they are published.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.