Bahamian general election, 2017

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10 May 2017 (2017-05-10)

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All 39 seats of the Bahamian House of Assembly
20 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Hubert Minnis	Perry Christie
Party	FNM	PLP
Leader's seat	Killarney	Centerville (defeated)
Last election	9 seats	29 seats
Seats won	35	4
Seat change	26	25

Prime Minister before election

Perry Christie
PLP

Elected Prime Minister

Hubert Minnis
FNM

Perry Christie
PLP

Hubert Minnis
FNM

General elections were held in the Bahamas on 10 May 2017. The elected members of the House of Assembly will elect the Prime Minister.

The result was a victory for the opposition Free National Movement led by Hubert Minnis, which defeated the ruling Progressive Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Perry Christie.

The Free National Movement (FNM) defeated the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in the 2007 general elections amid a scandal involving the residency status of model and reality television star Anna Nicole Smith and allegations that the PLP's immigration minister had fast-tracked her application to live in the islands.

The composition of the House of Assembly changed during the 2012–2017 term. Former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham resigned as the leader of the FNM following the party's loss in the 2012 polls and also resigned his parliamentary seat, forcing a by-election in the North Abaco constituency. This resulted in the PLP winning the seat and increasing their total to 30. Subsequently, the PLP lost three seats; Greg Moss left the party to form the United Democratic Party in 2015, whilst Andre Rollins and Renward Wells defected to the FNM, bringing the PLP's total down to 27 seats.

Members of the House of Assembly are elected from single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting. In the 2017 general elections, there were 39 seats up for grabs in the House of Assembly. This was an increase of one seat from the 38 seat total in the previous parliamentary term, which began after the 2012 polls. The majority party then selects the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the Governor-General.

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