By Reuters
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) - The opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won a landslide victory in Barbados' general election, winning every seat and ushering in the country's first female prime minister, preliminary results showed on Friday.
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The BLP's Mia Mottley won all 30 seats in the Caribbean island's parliament, according to the Electoral and Boundaries Commission, dealing a crushing defeat to Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and his Democratic Labour Party (DLP).
Mottley, a former minister and attorney general, will become the first female prime minister since independence from Britain in 1966.
(Reporting by Robert Edison Sandiford)