The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) won six of the 10 Family Island seats in Monday's general election.
These do not include Grand Bahama, where the PLP won three of the five seats there.
PLP candidate for North Andros and the Berry Islands Dr. Perry Gomez defeated former Minister of Education Desmond Bannister by 22 votes.
PLP Deputy Leader and incumbent MP Philip Brave Davis won the Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador seat over his rivals FNM Senator Michael Pintard and DNA candidate Shawn Francis.
Davis had 84 more votes than Pintard.
The PLP deputy got 778 votes to Pintard's 694, while Francis only received nine votes.
In the 2007 general election, Davis defeated his opponent -- FNM candidate Gladys Johnson-Sands -- by 226 votes.
The PLP candidate for Central and South Eleuthera Damian Gomez beat the FNM's Howard Johnson and DNA candidate William Hunt.
He won by 66 votes.
In the Exuma and Ragged Island constituency, former Minister of State for the Environment Phenton Neymour fell to Anthony Moss of the PLP by 117 votes.
Moss received 1,337 votes compared to 1,220 for Neymour. Floyd Armbrister of the Democratic National Alliance received 64 votes.
PLP incumbent V. Alfred Gray held on to the MICAL seat over FNM candidate Sidney Collie by 24 votes.
Gray secured 674 votes compared to 650 votes for Collie. DNA candidate Jamarl Chea received six votes.
Gray defeated former Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes by 39 votes when he challenged that seat for the FNM in the 2007 general election.
Mangrove Cay and South Andros presented a tough battle. The PLP's candidate Picewell Forbes won by 167 votes over Independent candidate Whitney Bastian, and 260 votes over Ron Bosfield, the FNM's candidate for that constituency.
Forbes received 795 votes; Bastian 628 votes; Bosfield 535 and the DNA's candidate Wayde Forbes-Ferguson received 87 votes.
Forbes defeated Bastian by 440 votes when they went head to head in South Andros during the 2007 general election.
In the lead-up to Election Day, former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham predicted that his party would win the majority of the Family Island seats, a prediction that fell short of the mark last night.
However, Ingraham won the North Abaco seat for the eighth consecutive time by defeating PLP candidate Renardo Curry and DNA candidate Sonith Lockhart.
However, Curry was ahead in the polls by over 200 votes as some of the initial results came in for that constituency but that gap was closed and the votes soon reflected the former prime minister's win.
Ingraham, however, announced that he will not take his seat in Parliament. He also resigned as leader of the FNM.
Former Minister of Social Development Loretta Butler-Turner defeated PLP candidate Alex Storr and DNA candidate Mario Cartwright in Long Island.
Theo Neilly, the FNM's candidate for North Eleuthera, received 1,790 votes and defeated PLP candidate Clay Sweeting, who received 1,685 votes. The DNA's candidate for North Eleuthera George Taylor received 47 votes.
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