75-year-old Dr. Mitchell, leader of the New National Party, was hoping to lead Grenada for a final term but lost to the Opposition’s 44-year-old Dickon Mitchell (no relation), leader of the National Democratic Congress.
Dr. Mitchell served as Grenada’s Prime Minister for six (6) terms. He won two consecutive elections in 2013 and 2018 with a clean sweep at the polls.
However, this time around, he was beaten 9/6 by the younger Mitchell who is an attorney at law.
Prior to the elections, Dr. Mitchell predicted his party may lose a few of the 15 seats it held for the last two terms, but would win the elections.
It turned out he was right about losing a few seats but wrong about winning the elections as attorney Dickon Mitchell sent him to the political cemetery in Grenada, earlier than he anticipated.
Just over 84,000 Grenadians were registered to vote in the elections earlier today.
