Jeannine Compton-Antoine is a

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 ...

n politician who represented the Micoud North constituency in the

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from 2007 to 2011. She won the seat for the United Workers Party in a 2007 by-election. Compton-Antoine resigned from the United Workers Party in 2011, and continued to serve as an independent MP. She lost the seat in the 2011 general election. In July 2012, she was selected to be chair of the

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. Compton-Antoine is the daughter of

John Compton Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first prime minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton ser ...

, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.

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