Vaz thrashes Rowe

PRELIMINARY COUNT -



JLP\'s DARYL VAZ : 7,915 votes

PNP\'s KENNETH ROWE: 5,626 votes

IND. ASTOR BLACK : 27 votes



REGISTERED VOTERS: 18,723

VOTER TURN-OUT: 13,589



The Jamaica Labour Party\'s Daryl Vaz has comprehensively beaten the People\'s National Party\'s Kenneth Rowe in the West Portland by-election



Vaz broke new a frontier in the constituency, becoming the first person there to poll more than 7,000 votes in an election.



With all 99 boxes counted Vaz polled 2,289 votes more than Rowe. This is also more than twice the 944 lead that he polled against the PNP\'s Abe Dabdoub in the 2007 general election.



Vaz was ousted from Parliament after the court ruled that he was not eligible to remain in the House because he was an American at the time of the general election, which is prohibited by the Jamaican Constitution.