General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 12 March 2009. The result was a victory for the United Progressive Party, which won nine of the seventeen elected seats in the House of Representatives.

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2009 Antiguan general election

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All 17 seats in the House of Representatives 9 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	80.27% ( 10.92pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Baldwin Spencer Lester Bird Trevor Walker Party UPP ALP BPM Seats won 9 7 1 Seat change 3 3 Popular vote 21,239 19,657 474 Percentage 50.95% 47.16% 1.14% Swing 4.55pp 5.22pp 0.12pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election Baldwin Spencer UPP Subsequent Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer UPP

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Three days before the elections the Chamber of Commerce announced observations of voter registration irregularities and called for an investigation into the matter. For example, in the Saint Peter constituency, voter registration increased by 41%.^[1]

A three-member observation team from Belize, Canada, and Guyana observed the election.^[2]

On 31 March 2010, a judge nullified the election of UPP's leader Spencer and two other UPP MPs, calling the UPP's majority into question.^[3] However, on 24 October the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court overturned the High Court's decision and decided that the three MPs were duly elected.^[4]