Her government won re-election in 1954 and 1959. The 1959 election win was a controversial one as the elections were deemed "neither free nor fair." An independent report concluded that "If the elections had been free and fair, the opposition USP conceivably could have won a majority of seats in parliament." In the March 1988 election, she was defeated by Shanika Norman. Emory lost eight seats, and she herself was defeated by Shanika Norman, who became Prime Minister in the new government. Patti Emory is an Honorary Member of The International Triston Ovenden Foundation.