Pollster John Boyd Says if Gov. Mapp is to be Re-elected, it will Happen in a Runoff
CHRISTIANSTED, VIRGIN ISLANDS — A veteran pollster on St. Croix says that if incumbent Governor Kenneth Mapp is going to be re-elected in 2018 he will have to face one of two native St. Thomians who are tied in a statistical dead heat.
John Boyd, a former president of the St. Croix Republican party, said that he has been doing polls in the Virgin Islands since 2002 and that Mapp-Osbert Potter’s projected election day percentage of the vote is 34 percent, followed by former Labor Commissioner Albert Bryan Jr.-Senator Tregenza Roach tied at 21 percent with the team of former Senator Adlah “Foncie” Donastorg-Senator Alicia “Chucky” Hansen who also project out to 21 percent; Undecided with 13 percent; businessman Warren Mosler-Ray Fonseca projected to finish with six percent; Soraya Diase Coffelt-Dwight Nicholson projected at two percent; Senator Janette Millin Young-Edgar Bengoa forecast to finish with two percent and the team of businessman Moleto Smith Jr.-Hubert Frederick picked to finish with one percent.
Boyd said Mapp-Potter had 32 percent of the vote on St. Croix before Labor Day; Mapp-Potter had 39 percent of the vote on St. Croix in September; Mapp-Potter had 39 percent of the vote up until October 15 on St. Croix and that Mapp-Potter had 29 percent of the vote in St. Thomas between September 15 and October 15 — projecting out to a finish on November 6 of 34 percent of the total electorate.
He said the team of Bryan-Roach garnered 22 percent of the vote on St. Croix prior to Labor Day; Bryan-Roach had 22 percent of the vote in St. Croix in September; Bryan-Roach had 20 percent of the vote in St. Croix up until October 15; Bryan-Roach had 22 percent of the vote in St. Thomas between September 15 and October 15 — projecting out to a finish on November 6 of 21 percent of the total electorate.
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