2013 Santa Dominican general election

The 2013 Santa Dominican general election took place on 25 June 2013. Andrew Walker and the Social Democratic Party won another victory. Andrew Walker became the first Socialist/Social Democrat/Labour prime minister to win a third term, and Walker became the second prime minister to win a third consecutive term after Conservative Mike Richardson in 1981. This election, however, was the first time Walker's campaign failed to secure a definitive landslide victory, characterized by the governing coalition having more than 30 seats than the opposition. Many accredit this to voter fatigue, as by this point the Social Democrats had been in power for 8 years. Bernadette Keller, who was the SDP prime minister for a few months in 2017 following Walker's resignation, often cites this fact when criticized regarding her poor performance. "To find the reasons for our poor performance in this past election, one most look back to June 2013 and start from there" she stated.