Dead heat - Don Anderson finds PNP, JLP locked in close fight as election nears

If you thought the political heat couldn't get any hotter--think again! The latest RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll has confirmed what many have felt for weeks. The battle for Jamaica House is going down to the wire.

Mark Golding's People National Party (PNP) is in a statistical dead heat with Andrew Holness' Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as the general elections nears.

The latest RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll, conducted between May and June 2025, found that 32.6 per cent of registered voters interviewed saying they would vote for the PNP. This is three per cent higher than the 29.6 per cent who said they would vote for the JLP.

The poll was conducted among 1,033 persons aged 18 years and over. All parishes were covered in the sample and the margin of error was plus or minus three per cent at the 95 confidence level.

The JLP won 49 seats to the PNP's 14 in the 63-seat House of Representatives in 2023. Holness has been busy criss-crossing Jamaica, urging voters to 'choose Jamaica' and give his party a third consecutive term in office. However, for Golding and the PNP, 'Time come' for a change in the leadership of the country.

With the general election due by September, Jamaicans from every corner of the island are bracing for one of the most thrilling political showdowns in years.