2014 United States Virgin Islands legislative election

2014 United States Virgin Islands legislative election

November 4, 2014 (2014-11-04)
All 15 seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Neville James Party Democratic Independent Independent Citizens Movement Leader since January 12, 2015 Leader's seat St. Croix Seats after 11 3 1
Senate President before election Shawn-Michael Malone Democratic Elected Senate President Neville James Democratic

The 2014 United States Virgin Islands legislative election was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, to elect members of the 31st Virgin Islands Legislature.

Summary

The Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands maintained their majority while securing 11 out of 15 seats. In the Senate at-large district race, Independent candidate Almando Liburd pulled off a huge victory over Democrat Ronnie Jones. The seat was previously controlled by Democrat Graig Barshinger for six years before he decided not to seek reelection. No primary were held for that seat.

Democratic primary

Results

St. Croix district

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kurt Vialet	3,184	14.72
	Democratic	Novelle Francis	2,970	13.73
	Democratic	Kenneth Gittens (incumbent)	2,419	11.18
	Democratic	Neville James	2,362	10.92
	Democratic	Sammuel Sanes (incumbent)	2,237	10.34
	Democratic	Malcolm McGregor	1,878	8.68
	Democratic	Diane Capehart (incumbent)	1,473	6.81
	Democratic	Paul “Paulie” Arnold Jr.	1,436	6.64
	Democratic	Collin W.S. Hodge	985	4.55
	Democratic	Carol Burke	977	4.52
	Democratic	Troy Mason	970	4.48
	Democratic	George Moore	739	3.42
	Democratic	Omar B.U. Henry	541	3.07
	Democratic	Eugene La Corbiniere	511	2.9
	Write-in		63	0.36
Total votes

St. Thomas - St. John District

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Clifford Graham (incumbent)	2,951	13.43
	Democratic	Myron Jackson	2,647	12.05
	Democratic	Janette Millin Young (incumbent)	2,312	10.52
	Democratic	Jean Forde	2,303	10.48
	Democratic	Justin Harrigan Sr.	2,250	10.24
	Democratic	Donald “Ducks” Cole (incumbent)	2,239	10.19
	Democratic	Marvin Blyden	1,946	8.86
	Democratic	Sean Georges	1,922	8.75
	Democratic	Clarence Payne	1,893	8.62
	Democratic	Julia Joseph Simon	913	4.16
	Democratic	Gregory Miller	591	2.69
Total votes

General Election

Results

At-large District

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Almando "Rocky" Liburd	12,048	58.53
	Democratic	Ronnie E. Jones	8,267	40.16
	Write-in		268	1.30
Total votes

St. Croix District

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kurt Vialet	8,288	12.19
	Democratic	Novelle Francis	7,318	10.76
	Democratic	Sammuel Sanes (incumbent)	5,805	8.54
	Democratic	Kenneth Gittens (incumbent)	5,451	8.02
	Democratic	Neville James	5,114	7.52
	Independent Citizens Movement	Positive Nelson (incumbent)	4,891	7.19
	Independent	Nereida Rivera-O'Reilly (incumbent)	4,757	7.00
	Democratic	Malcolm McGregor	3,883	5.71
	Independent Citizens Movement	Naomi "Sandra" Joseph	3,386	4.98
	Write-in		3,282	4.83
	Independent	Jamila Russell	3,248	4.78
	Independent Citizens Movement	Arthur A. Joseph	3,241	4.77
	Democratic	Diane Capehart (incumbent)	3,130	4.60
	Independent Citizens Movement	Ignacio Llanos III	1,716	2.52
	Independent	Miguel Quinones Jr.	1,624	2.39
	Republican	Robert B. Moorhead	1,070	1.57
	Independent	Linus Louis Lacane	771	1.12
	Independent	Arthur Brown Jr.	490	0.72
	Independent	Dwight Nicholson	328	0.48
	Independent	Kevin Romain	192	0.28
Total votes

St. Thomas - St. John District

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Marvin Blyden	6,394	10.2
	Democratic	Myron Jackson (incumbent)	6,248	9.79
	Democratic	Clifford Graham (incumbent)	6,196	9.71
	Independent	Tregenza Roach (incumbent)	5,743	9.00
	Democratic	Jean Forde	5,702	8.93
	Democratic	Janette Millin Young (incumbent)	5,369	8.41
	Democratic	Justin Harrigan Sr.	5,228	8.19
	Democratic	Donald “Ducks” Cole (incumbent)	5,139	8.05
	Independent	Lawrence "Recon" Olive	4,112	6.44
	Independent	Dwayne DeGraff	3,783	5.93
	Independent Citizens Movement	Stephen "Smokey" Frett	2,652	4.15
	Independent	Wilma Marsh Monsanto	1,829	2.87
	Independent	C. Milliner-Emanuel	1,551	2.43
	Republican	Lawrence Boschulte	1,306	2.05
	Independent	Bruce Flamon	1,162	1.82
	Republican	Jodi Hodge	662	1.04
	Write-in		461	0.72
	Independent Citizens Movement	Charlesworth Halstead	302	0.47
Total votes