The World - News from July 2, 1985
The pro-American governing party of Prime Minister Mary Eugenia Charles won a second five-year term, though with a slightly reduced majority, on the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. Election officials said the Dominica Freedom Party captured 15 of 21 seats at stake, while the opposition Labor Party led by Michael Douglas took 5 and the United Dominica Labor Party the other. The prime minister’s party won 17 seats in 1980 elections.
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