Freetown (Belize House constituency)
| Freetown | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the Belize House of Representatives | |
 | |
| District | Belize |
| Electorate | 4,592 (2015) |
| Major settlements | Belize City (part) |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1961 |
| Party | People's United Party |
| Area Representative | Francis Fonseca |
Freetown is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2003 by Francis Fonseca of the People's United Party. Fonseca served as PUP leader and Leader of the Opposition from 2011 to 2016.
Profile
The Freetown constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. The constituency hugs the Caribbean Sea shoreline on the northwest outskirts of Belize City, also taking in some of the city center. It borders the Belize Rural Central, Lake Independence, Pickstock, Fort George and Caribbean Shores constituencies.[1]
Freetown was represented by longtime People's United Party leader and Prime Minister George Cadle Price from 1961 to 1984, when he was upset by the United Democratic Party's Derek Aikman, a relative political newcomer. Aikman was one of two UDP area representatives who defected to the newly created National Alliance for Belizean Rights party in early 1992.
A by-election was held in January 1993 after Aikman was expelled from the House for bankruptcy. At that election the seat returned to PUP control.[2]
Area representatives
| Election | Area representative[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | George Cadle Price | PUP | |
| 1965 | George Cadle Price | PUP | |
| 1969 | George Cadle Price | PUP | |
| 1974 | George Cadle Price | PUP | |
| 1979 | George Cadle Price | PUP | |
| 1984 | Derek Aikman | UDP | |
| 1992 | NABR | ||
| 1993 by-election | Jorge Espat | PUP | |
| 1993 | Jorge Espat | PUP | |
| 1998 | Jorge Espat | PUP | |
| 2003 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | |
| 2008 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | |
| 2012 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | |
| 2015 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | |
| 2020 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | |
Elections
| Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 general election[4] Electorate: 4,230 Turnout: 2,031 (62.63%) −12.25 | PUP hold Majority: 150 (5.0%) +4.42 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | 1,558 | 51.95 | +2.37 | ||
| Lee Mark Chang | UDP | 1,408 | 46.95 | −2.05 | ||||
| 2008 general election[5] Electorate: 3,687 Turnout: 2,761 (74.88%) −1.82 | PUP hold Majority: 16 (0.58%) −19.42 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | 1,369 | 49.58 | −10.42 | ||
| Michael Peyrefitte | UDP | 1,353 | 49.0 | +9.0 | ||||
| Jorge Ernesto "Prophet" Babb | NRTCP | 19 | 0.69 | - | ||||
| 2003 general election[6] Electorate: 2,509 Turnout: 1,925 (76.7%) −12.69 | PUP hold Majority: 383 (20.0%) −25.3 | Francis Fonseca | PUP | 1,154 | 60.0 | −11.81 | ||
| Dough Singh | UDP | 771 | 40.0 | +13.49 | ||||
| 1998 general election[7] Electorate: 1,988 Turnout: 1,777 (89.39%) +17.78 | PUP hold Majority: 805 (45.3%) +22.3 | Jorge Espat | PUP | 1,276 | 71.81 | +10.31 | ||
| Marisa Marisol Quan | UDP | 471 | 26.51 | −11.99 | ||||
| Abel J. Rodriguez | PDP | 21 | 1.18 | - | ||||
| 1993 general election[8][9] Electorate: 2,758 Turnout: 1,975 (71.61%) +11.38 | PUP hold Majority: 453 (23.0%) −18.43 | Jorge Espat | PUP | 1,214 | 61.5 | −6.36 | ||
| Owen Morrison | UDP | 761 | 38.5 | +12.07 | ||||
| January 1993 by-election[10][2] Electorate: 3,166 Turnout: 1,907 (60.23%) −2.71 | PUP gain from NABR Majority: 790 (41.43%) +31.23 | Jorge Espat | PUP | 1,294 | 67.86 | +22.96 | ||
| Howell Longsworth | UDP | 504 | 26.43 | −28.67 | ||||
| Adelma Broaster | NABR | 102 | 5.35 | - | ||||
| 1989 general election[11][12] Electorate: 2,771 Turnout: 1,744 (62.94%) −5.49 | UDP hold Majority: 178 (10.2%) −10.6 | Derek Aikman | UDP | 961 | 55.1 | −4.4 | ||
| Araceli Krohn | PUP | 783 | 44.9 | +6.2 | ||||
| 1984 general election[13][14] Electorate: 2,151 Turnout: 1,472 (68.43%) −19.96 | UDP gain from PUP Majority: 306 (20.8%) +17.2 | Derek Aikman | UDP | 876 | 59.5 | +11.6 | ||
| George Cadle Price | PUP | 570 | 38.7 | −12.8 | ||||
| 1979 general election[15] Electorate: 3,576 Turnout: 3,161 (88.39%) +18.01 | PUP hold Majority: 3.6% (−17.9) | George Cadle Price | PUP | 51.5 | −8.7 | |||
| Manuel Esquivel | UDP | 47.9 | +9.2 | |||||
| 1974 general election[16] Electorate: 2,242 Turnout: 1,578 (70.38%) −8.4 | PUP hold Majority: 21.5% (+6.0) | George Cadle Price | PUP | 60.2 | +3.3 | |||
| Henry Fairweather | UDP | 38.7 | - | |||||
| 1969 general election[17] Electorate: 1,951 Turnout: 1,537 (78.78%) +10.46 | PUP hold Majority: 15.5% (−6.2) | George Cadle Price | PUP | 56.9 | −3.2 | |||
| Henry Fairweather | NIP | 41.4 | +3.0 | |||||
| 1965 general election[18] Electorate: 2,898 Turnout: 1,980 (68.32%) −19.52 | PUP hold Majority: 21.7% (−20.6) | George Cadle Price | PUP | 60.1 | −7.0 | |||
| Tharine Rudon | NIP | 38.4 | +13.6 | |||||
| 1961 general election[19] Electorate: 1,850 Turnout: 1,625 (87.84%) n/a | PUP win Majority: 42.3% (n/a) | George Cadle Price | PUP | 67.1 | - | |||
| Sabino Savery | NIP | 24.8 | - | |||||
| Ernest Cain | CDP | 7.6 | - | |||||
References
- ^ Belize election maps, Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive. (accessed 20 November 2014)
- ^ a b From the Publisher, Amandala. (accessed 22 November 2014)
- ^ Elections Results, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 20 November 2014)
- ^ GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS 2012, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ 2008 General Elections Final Results , Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ 2003 General Elections final results, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1998, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1993, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ 1993 Parliamentary Elections, Political Database of the Americas. (accessed 22 November 2014)
- ^ 1993 Freetown By-Election, Political Database of the Americas. (accessed 22 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1989, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ 1989 Parliamentary Elections, Political Database of the Americas. (accessed 22 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1984, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ 1984 Parliamentary Elections, Political Database of the Americas. (accessed 22 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1979, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1974, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1969, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1965, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
- ^ General Elections 1961, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)