A fascinating contest is in the making in East Rural St Andrew with seasoned political campaigner, the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Joan Gordon-Webley ahead of People's National Party (PNP) newcomer to representational politics, Damion Crawford.

While Gordon-Webley enjoys a seven per cent lead in popular support in the constituency, it is anybody's race as the PNP (as a party) is close on the heels of the JLP as it trails by a mere three percentage points in the findings of a Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll conducted in the constituency with a plus or minus five per cent margin of error.