Elections in Trinidad and Tobago

Elections in Trinidad and Tobago gives information on election and election results in Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago elects on national level a House of Representatives (the Lower House of its legislature). The head of government the Prime Minister, is chosen from among the elected representatives on the basis of his/ her command of the support of the majority of legislators. The Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has two chambers. The House of Representatives has 41 members, elected for a maximum five-year term in single-seat constituencies. The Senate has 31 members: 16 Government Senators appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, 6 Opposition Senators appointed on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition and 9 so-called Independent Senators appointed by the President to represent other sectors of civil society.  The president is elected for a five-year term by an electoral college consisting of the members of both houses of Parliament.  Other elected bodies include the Local Government bodies in Trinidad (2 cities, 3 boroughs, 9 Regional Corporations) and the Tobago House of Assembly which handles local government in the island of Tobago and is entrenched in the Constitution.

Until 1925 Trinidad and Tobago was a British Colony ruled through a pure, unelected Crown Colony system, although elected Borough and Municipal Councils existed in Port of Spain and San Fernando.  The first elections to the Legislative Council took place in 1925.  Seven of the thirteen unofficial members were elected, six unofficials were nominated by the Governor, and twelve official members sat in the Legislative Council on an ex-officio basis. The Governor had the right to an ordinary vote and an additional casting vote, to break any tie. The franchise was determined by income, property and residence qualifications, and was limited to men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30.  The 1946 elections were the first with universal adult suffrage, during which time there existed an even number of elected and unelected members (excluding the Governor).

Latest elections
2015 Trinidad and Tobago general election
2013 Tobago House of Assembly election
2010 Trinidad and Tobago local election

General elections

2015 general elections

2010 general elections

2007 general elections

2002 general elections
Summary of the 2002 election results

1956 federal elections

1950 general elections

(A.P.T. James contested and won the Tobago seat on both a Butler Party and CSP ticket; James' votes are only counted in the Butler Party total).

Local elections

Trinidad

2003 local government elections
|Summary of the 2003 Local Government election results
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
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|People's National Movement 
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|align="right" |83
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|United National Congress
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|align="right" |43
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|National Alliance for Reconstruction
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|align="right" |00
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|Independents
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|align="right" |00
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|378,637
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|126
|}

1999 local government elections

1996 local government elections

1992 local government elections

1987 local government elections

1983 local government elections

1980 local government elections

1977 local government elections

1971 local government elections

Election boycott

1968 local government elections

1959 county council elections

Tobago

See also
 Electoral calendar
 Electoral system
 List of Parliaments of Trinidad and Tobago

References 

 Matthias Catón: "Trinidad and Tobago" in: Elections in the Americas. A Data Handbook, vol. 1, ed. by Dieter Nohlen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005: pp. 627–646 
 Kirk Meighoo: Politics in a Half Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago, 1925-2002, 2003

External links
Adam Carr's Election Archive
Elections & Boundaries Commission