General elections were held in Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

 on 6 April 1987. The result was a victory for the United Workers Party

United Workers Party (Saint Lucia)

The United Workers Party is a conservative political party in Saint Lucia, led by Prime Minister Stephenson King and previously by John Compton.-History:...

, which won nine of the seventeen seats. Voter turnout was 60.8%.

As the UWP had only won a single seat majority, Prime Minister John Compton

John Compton

Sir John George Melvin Compton, KBE, PC was the first, fifth and eighth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia in 1979, from 1982 to 1996, and from 2006 until his death. Compton, who previously led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, was the country's first leader when it became independent...

 called early elections

Saint Lucian general election, 30 April 1987

Early general elections were held in Saint Lucia on 30 April 1987, after elections earlier in the month had resulted in only a single-seat majority for the UWP. Despite increasing their share of the vote from 52.5% to 53.2%, the number of seats held by the UWP and the Saint Lucia Labour Party...

, which were held on 30 April in order to try and increase the party's majority. However, although their share of the vote rose to 53.2%, the SLP retained their eight seats.

Results

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Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
United Workers Party United Workers Party (Saint Lucia) The United Workers Party is a conservative political party in Saint Lucia, led by Prime Minister Stephenson King and previously by John Compton.-History:...	25,892	52.5	9
Saint Lucia Labour Party Saint Lucia Labour Party The Saint Lucia Labour Party is a social democratic political party in Saint Lucia. It currently holds ten of the 17 seats in the House of Assembly.-History:...	18,889	38.3	8
Progressive Labour Party Progressive Labour Party (Saint Lucia) The Progressive Labour Party was a political party in Saint Lucia. It first contested national elections in 1982, when it finished second behind the United Workers' Party with 27.1% of the vote, but only won a single seat. In the 6 April 1987 elections its vote share fell to 9.3% and they lost...	4,572	9.3	0
Invalid/blank votes	1,158	–	–	–
Total	50,511	100	17	0
Source: Nohlen