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{{Short description|Barbudan political party}}
{{Distinguish|Barbuda People's Movement}}{{More citations needed|date=January 2022}}
{{Politics of Antigua and Barbuda}}
The '''Barbuda People's Movement for Change''' was a [[political party]] in [[Barbuda]], part of [[Antigua and Barbuda]].

At their last [[Antigua and Barbuda legislative election, 2004|elections]], 23 March 2004, the party contested the sole seat allotted to Barbuda (in total there are 17 seats in the parliament). The election ended in a draw between BPMC and the [[Barbuda People's Movement]], which both got exactly 400 votes. A by-election was held on April 20 in which [[Trevor Walker]] of BPM was elected with 408 votes against 394 for the BPMC candidate [[Arthur Nibbs]].

Ahead of the elections former BPMC general secretary, [[Ordrick Samuel]] had launched a new party, [[Barbudans for a Better Barbuda]].

BPMC was allied to the [[Antigua Labour Party]].

== Electoral results ==

=== House of Representatives ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Election
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!+/–
!Position
!Government
|-
![[Antigua and Barbuda general election, 2004|2004]]
|400
|1.01
|{{Composition bar|0|17|#8B73AC}}
|New
|4th
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|}

=== Barbuda Council<!-- May have existed before 2003 -->===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Election
! rowspan="2" |Leaders
! colspan="3" |Votes
! colspan="2" |Seats
! rowspan="2" |Position
! rowspan="2" |Government
|-
!No.
!%
!±
!No.
!±
|-
! style="background-color: #8B73AC" |
!2003
|
|
|
|
|<!--2 BPM 3 BPMC 6 UNKNOWN-->
|
|
|{{no2|[[Barbuda People's Movement|BPM]]}}
|-
! style="background-color: #8B73AC" |
!2005
|
|1,988<ref name=":12">{{Cite web|last=pj67admin|date=2005-03-23|title=Barbuda Council Election Day|url=https://barbudaful.net/barbuda-council-election-day/|access-date=2022-01-01|website=Barbudaful|language=en-GB}}</ref>
|44.03
|
|<!--7 BPM 3 BPMC 1 UNKNOWN--><ref name=":12" />
|
|2nd
|{{no2|[[Barbuda People's Movement|BPM]]}}
|}
{{Antigua and Barbuda political parties}}

==References==
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[[Category:Political parties in Antigua and Barbuda]]
[[Category:Barbuda political parties]]
[[Category:Political parties with year of establishment missing]]
[[Category:Political parties with year of disestablishment missing]]


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