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The opposition People's National Party secured a landslide election win after a campaign dominated by the economy, preliminary results showed.
The result means a return by the veteran PNP politician Portia Simpson Miller to the post of Prime Minister. The 66-year-old became an MP in 1976 and served as Jamaica's first female Prime Minister from 2006-7
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