Cayo South is an electoral
constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
in the
Cayo District
Cayo is a district located in the west part of Belize, and it contains the capital, Belmopan. It is the most extensive, second-most populous and third-most densely populated of the six districts of Belize. The district's capital is the town of S ...
represented in the
House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often ...
of the
National Assembly of Belize since 2012 by
Julius Espat of the
People's United Party
The People's United Party (, PUP) is one of two major political parties in Belize. It is currently the governing party of Belize after success in the 2025 Belizean general election, winning a majority of 26 seats out of 31 in the Belizean Hou ...
.
Profile
The Cayo South constituency was created for the
1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. The largely rural constituency consists of approximately two-thirds of the Cayo District, stretching north and east from the
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
n border in the west up to the border with the
Orange Walk District
Orange Walk is a Districts of Belize, district in the northwest of the nation of Belize, with its district capital in Orange Walk Town.
Demographics Main settlements
The Orange Walk District, with an area of 1,829 square miles (4,636 square km), ...
in the north. Cayo South is geographically the largest constituency in the country.
[Belize election maps](_blank)
Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive. (accessed 20 November 2014)
Prior to 2008 Cayo South included the Belizean capital city,
Belmopan
Belmopan () is the capital city of Belize. Its population in 2010 was 16,451. Belmopan is the smallest capital city in the continental Americas (by population) and the third-largest settlement in Belize, behind Belize City and San Ignacio. Fou ...
, after which the city was represented by
its own constituency.
Area representatives
Elections
References
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Political divisions in Belize
Cayo South
1961 establishments in British Honduras