2020 Vincentian general election

The ULP campaigned for a record fifth term in power, with PM Gonsalves dubbing himself the "5-Star General".[15] Gonsalves pointed to the Argyle International Airport and the Canouan Airport as examples of the party's record in improving infrastructure. He criticized the NDP for supporting Citizenship by investment (CBI),[16] and later alleged that foreign strategists were directing the NDP campaign and spying on the ULP.[17][18] In contrast to the "foreign influences" of the NDP, Gonsalves emphasized that the ULP's party manifesto had "come from the bowels of the people of this country, from our experiences and from our own creative minds and written by our own hands". He explained that new foreign investments in hotels and airports would allow the SVG to remain the sole country in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States without a CBI program.[19]

Gonsalves' son Camillo, the incumbent East St. George MP, criticized the NDP for nominating a returning emigrant like Fitzgerald Bramble, rather than someone who had been living in the country more recently.[20]

After leading the NDP in the four previous elections, former PM Arnhim Eustace stepped down as party president in 2016,[21] and retired from the Assembly in 2020.[22]

The new leader Godwin Friday criticized the ULP's cronyism and its inability to improve the country over its 19 years in power: while the ULP leaders benefited from government projects, the average citizen faced rising costs-of-living and an unemployment rate of over 30 percent. This situation led many young Vincentians to emigrate, further handicapping development.[23] To combat this, Friday proposed several incentives, such as decreasing the national VAT rate and the interest rate on student loans and reforming the port customs system.[24] He also proposed an increase in the minimum stipend for workers in the national service.[25]

While the NDP had been advocating for the country to switch recognition from Taiwan to China since 2016, the party moderated its stance after meeting with Vincentians currently studying in Taiwan on scholarship. Instead, the party indicated that it would maintain ties with Taiwan in return for increased investment in SVG.[25]

Shevern John, the NDP candidate for North Windward, was denied leave from her job as a schoolteacher in order to contest the election, a benefit specified in the collective bargaining agreement between the SVG Teacher's Union (SVGTU) and the Public Service Commission (PSC). She was forced to resign instead. In 2010, three teachers wanting to run as NDP candidates had also been forced to resign; the SVGTU obtained a court decision in the teachers' favour, but the PSC had not reinstated the teachers as of 2020.[26]

In its statements, the GP criticized both the ULP and the NDP for relying heavily on the tourism industry. The party promised free university education and wireless internet for all citizens as well as Green economy initiatives in order to encourage more-sustainable economic growth and provide better jobs for the local population. The funding for these initiatives would initially come from abolishing loopholes such as the "Mustique Act", which granted the (mostly foreign) residents of Mustique exemptions from tax and customs duties.[27][28] Being smaller than the other two parties, the GP signalled support for joining a coalition government.[29]