Roseau, December 7 (RHC)-- Dominica's ruling Labor Party (DLP) won a landslide victory on Friday, winning 18 out of the 21 constituencies that were up for grabs in the general elections.

The leader of the DLP party, Roosevelt Skerrit, said that "the elections are over now.  The UWP failed to delay them, they failed to cause chaos in our society and they have failed at the ballot box." 

Referring to the opposition, Skerrit said: "I call on the UWP and its supporters to hold their conduct and behavior of the last few weeks, concede the election and work for peace."   And he reiterated his call to "give this country full assurance that the Dominica Labour Party is fully committed to building peace and unity."

The Dominica Labor Party (DLP) led by Skerrit, secured a major victory in elections that have been contested by the opposition party for over a year, with the support of Washington-based Organization of American States, the OAS.

Meanwhile, the opposition candidate of the United Workers' Party (UWP) Lennox Linton won only 3 constituencies.

Dominica, a former French and British colony of about 75,000 residents, held the general elections amid tensions, as the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) was pushing Prime Minister Skerrit to enact reforms in a bid to gain a better electoral advantage.