The Shower Posse has long had ties to the centre-right Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which Mr Golding leads.
In comparison, support for the leader of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Bruce Golding, who had been rapidly closing the gap on Ms Simpson-Miller in earlier polls, has waned.
Unofficial results suggested that the PNP had won 35 of the 60 seats in the House of Representatives, losing 13 seats to the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), led by a political veteran, Edward Seaga.
The JLP is 16 points ahead in the opinion polls, and won a by-election in March.
The seat was held for years by Edward Seaga, the long-time leader of the right-of-centre Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
Clive Mullings, the JLP energy minister, warned that "God brought down fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah".
Some fear that worse may be to come in the approach to an election which must be held by December 2002.The trouble started on July 7th, when a gun battle that lasted 24 hours broke out between police and the residents of Tivoli Gardens, a central district of Kingston and the political stronghold of Eddie Seaga, a former prime minister and the leader of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
Barring a couple of shoot-ups, the island's general election was as calm as the weather remarkably so since its outcome was an opposition victory by a narrow margin.After 18 years of government by the centre-left People's National Party PNPP), Bruce Golding, the leader of the centre-right Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), looks set to be the next prime minister.
No powerful opponents within the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have openly challenged him.
Nobody has yet claimed the JLP leadership, but it may pass to a younger generation.
Norman Manley, leader of the People's National Party (PNP), became premier after the elections of July 1959, but in 1960 the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) under Sir Alexander Bustamante pressed for secession from the federation.
