section_path: History/Second return to opposition (2015–2025)/2017 internal election
section_name: 2017 internal election
paragraph_text: 2017 internal election
  
  In the 2017 internal elections Kamla Persad-Bissessar won virtually all of the votes to continue as political leader of the party against Chanda Bhaggan and Christine Newallo-Hosein. The voter turnout was the lowest recorded in an internal election for the UNC at the time.