Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Saint Vincent ...
elects on the national level a
legislature
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. The
Legislature
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has two
chambers. The
House of Assembly
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Historically, in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible g ...
has 17 members, elected for a five-year term in single-seat
constituencies
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. The
Senate
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has 11 appointed members.
Saint Lucia has a
two-party system
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, which means that there are two dominant
political parties
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, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
Latest election
Central Castries by-election
Independent candidate
Richard Frederick
Richard Frederick (born 6 August, 1965) is a Saint Lucian lawyer and politician. He is the Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Housing and Local Government. Fredrick made his debut in the 2021 Saint Lucian General ...
won the Castries Central seat at a by-election on 13 March 2006. Frederick defeated the incumbent
Sarah Flood-Beaubrun and
Saint Lucia Labour Party
The Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) is a social democratic political party in Saint Lucia. It currently holds 15 of the 17 seats in the House of Assembly.
History
The party was established in 1949, backed by the Saint Lucia Workers Cooperative Un ...
candidate Victor La Corbiniere.
See also
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Electoral calendar
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Electoral system
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External links
St Lucia Electoral Department websiteAdam Carr's Election Archive
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