[1] Bob Richards, a senior minister and deputy premier in Dunkley's government unexpectedly lost his Devonshire East seat.

However, after the ruling One Bermuda Alliance lost its majority in the House of Assembly when two of its MPs left to sit as independents, the opposition Progressive Labour Party proposed a vote of no-confidence which was scheduled for 9 June 2017.

[5] The PLP was widely considered to have run on a populist platform, highlighting peoples' disenchantment with the political system.

[9] The taxpayer-funded Parliamentary Registry, Bermuda's election management body, assisted the PLP, supplying the party — but not their opponents — with contact information for all registered voters to aid in their campaigning.

[12] One year after the election, the OBA issued a press release criticising the refusal of the Registry to release a report on the incident,[13][14] to which the Registry responded by claiming that the Governor of Bermuda had already settled the matter in a letter and also declaring that it would refuse any further comment until unspecified "inaccuracies" made by the OBA in June, 2018, in connection to the issue were corrected.