Election History
John Compton dug his political roots in the eastern sugar belt in 1954 and thanks to his involvement in the 1957 sugar strike, they remained planted there throughout a full half century.
His immense popularity there was sustained through three generations so much so that when he returned to the fray for the very last time in the elections of 2006, after being 10 years and two elections away, he was bluntly told by supporters that he need not organize any major campaign. The result: Compton easily won the contest by more than 1,000 votes to become the representative of Micoud North for the very first time.
Compton as an Independent won his debut election contest in 1954 carrying away 51 percent of the total votes. But after the 1957 strike his personal popularity soared and in successive elections his share of the votes was often in excess of 90 percent.
In nearby Dennery, he was able to call the shots there as well as to who should run that constituency. But all that changed in 1979 when Compton’s stranglehold on the eastern felt began to flag. In that year,
- 1954—MICOUD DENNERY
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- J.G.M Compton (Ind.) 1404
- L. Williams (PPP) 546
- James L. Charles (SLP) 402
- Francis G. Charles 389
- 1957—MICOUD DENNERY
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- J.G.M Compton (SLP) 3621
- Harold F.C.Simmons (PPP) 137
- 1961 MICOUD-PRASLIN
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- J.G.M Compton (SLP) 1488
- Antoine Theodore (PPP) 96
- 1964—MICOUD-PRASLIN
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 1532
- George Murray (SLP) 80
- J.L. Lubin (Ind). 45
- 1969—MICOUD-PRASLIN
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 2047
- George Murray (SLP) 185
- 1974—MICOUD SOUTH
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 1009
- Francis Flood (Ind.) 227
- 1979—MICOUD SOUTH
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 1221
- Raymond Flood (SLP) 469
- 1982—MICOUD SOUTH
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 1529
- Henry. Marquis (SLP) 169
- S. Mathurin (PLP) 78
- 6th. April 1987—MICOUD SOUTH
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- J.G.M Compton ( UWP) 1589
- Henry Marquis (SLP) 289
- Lazarus Jn. Baptiste (PLP) 145
- 30th. April 1987—MICOUD SOUTH
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 1792
- Henry Marquis (SLP) 357
- 1992—MICOUD SOUTH
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 1792
- Vernantius James (SLP) 680
- 2006—MICOUD NORTH
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- J.G.M Compton (UWP) 2142
- Silas Wilson (SLP) 1091
- Patrick Joseph (Ind) 110
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