Bruce Golding, leader of the Jamaica Labour Party will be sworn in as the country's eighth prime minister next Tuesday September 11 according to information coming out of Jamaica. The official tally of ballots released on Thursday gave Golding's JLP 33 seats, 6 more than the incumbent People National Party (PNP). 

With victory, the JLP ended the 18 year rule of the PNP and ended the brief stint of Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller as Jamaica's first female Prime Minister. In March 2006, she had taken over the island's top position after the resignation of then PNP leader and Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. 

The hotly contested nature of the General Elections was evident in some of the results released on Thursday.

East Hanover:  JLP's Barrington Gray over the People's National Party's (PNP) D.K. Duncan, by 9 votes,

South East St. Mary:  JLP's Tarn Peralto  over PNP's Harry Douglas by 32 votes

Western Hanover:  PNP's Western Ian Hayles  over the JLP's Donovan Hamilton by more than 100 votes.

Meanwhile police in Jamaica confirmed on Thursday that Director of Elections, Danville Walker, the person credited with playing a major role in cleaning up of Jamaica's electoral system, has been receiving death threats in the aftermath of Monday's poll.