Local elections in

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were held on 2 December 2019, contesting 139 electoral districts across Trinidad's 14 municipal corporation electoral areas. With the exception of those areas that have had boundary changes, the seats up for election were last contested in the 2016 local elections. Both parties won control of seven of the 14 corporations with the People's National Movement (PNM) losing their minority control status in the Sangre Grande regional corporation. The PNM won 72 of the 139 electoral districts, but lost the popular vote and 11 electoral districts: Sangre Grande North West in the Sangre Grande regional corporation, Lengua/Indian Walk in the Princes Town Regional Corporation, Siparia West/Fyzabad in the

Siparia Regional Corporation The Borough of Siparia is the fifth and newest Borough of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, located in the southwestern portion of the island, it is Trinidad and Tobago's southernmost borough. The Regional Corporations and Municipalities of Tri ...

, Cocal/Mafeking in the Mayaro–Rio Claro Regional Corporation, Enterprise South/Longdenville North in the Chaguanas Borough Corporation, Caura/Paradise/Tacarigua in the Tunapuna–Piarco Regional Corporation, Les Effort West/La Romaine, Marabella West and Marabella West/Vistabella in the San Fernando City Corporation while gaining two from the

United National Congress The United National Congress ( UNC or UNCTT) is one of two major political parties in Trinidad and Tobago. The UNC is a Centre-left politics, centre-left party. It was founded in 1989 by Basdeo Panday, a Trinidadian lawyer, economist, trade unio ...

, in the San Juan–Laventille Regional Corporation, San Juan East and Barataria. The UNC also won the newly created districts of El Socorro/Aranguez North and La Fortune/Debe North, in the

San Juan–Laventille San Juan–Laventille () is a region of Trinidad. It has a land area of 220.39 km2. The San Juan–Laventille Regional Corporation is headquartered at MTS Plaza in Aranguez, San Juan. Other urban areas include Barataria, Laventille, Morvant ...

and Penal–Debe Regional Corporation.

Seats held prior to the election

The major political parties were defending the following numbers of electoral districts from municipal corporations on election day: * People's National Movement (PNM) – 83 electoral districts from 8 municipal corporations * United National Congress (UNC) – 54 electoral districts from 6 municipal corporations These numbers are how many seats each party had won at the previous election, in 2016, rather than which party held the seat on the eve of the election.

Eligibility to vote

All registered electors (

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and Non-Commonwealth citizens) who will be aged 18 or over, resided legally in Trinidad and Tobago and have resided in an electoral district/constituency for a least two months prior to the election date are entitled to vote in the local elections.

Parties and standings

Political parties registered with the Elections and Boundaries Commission can contest the local elections. The following registered parties contested the local elections:

Campaign slogans

Opinion polls

The North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) commissioned opinion polling for the next general election regularly sampling the electorates' opinions.

Municipal Corporation projections

Summary results

Elections were conducted under the

first-past-the-post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...

system.

Results by municipal corporation electoral area

Allocation of Aldermen

Results by party

References

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