Trelawny Southern is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was one of the 32 constituencies fixed in the new constitution granted to Jamaica in 1944. The constituency has featured in all 16 contested Parliamentary General Elections from 1944 to 2016. The last MP was Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, representing the Jamaica Labour Party, who has been in office since 2007. She was Speaker and resigned as MP on September 21, 2023.
Boundaries
The constituency covers four of the nine electoral divisions in the parish of Trelawny – Warsop to the west, Albert Town to the north, Ulster Spring to the north-east, and Lorrimers to the south.
Demographics
According to the Jamaica Population Census of 2011, the number of persons living in the constituency was 26,564, while the number of registered voters was 17,953. As of the 2020 general election, the number of registered electors in the constituency was 19,716. This represents a 2.2% increase over the 19,289 voters registered for the 2016 general election.
+ Voter Distribution by Electoral Division Electoral Division Number of Polling Divisions Number of electors Albert Town 17 4,492 Lorrimers 23 6,681 Ulster Spring 21 3,544 Warsop 20 4,819Grand total 81 19,716
Members of Parliament 1944 to Present ElectionMemberParty 1944 Matthew Thelwell Jamaica Labour Party 1949 Felix Toyloy Jamaica Labour Party 1955 Felix Toyloy Jamaica Labour Party 1959 James Binns People's National Party 1962 Felix Toyloy Jamaica Labour Party 1967 Albert Belinfanti People's National Party 1972 Albert Belinfanti People's National Party 1976 Albert Belinfanti People's National Party 1980 Lloyd Bascoe Jamaica Labour Party 1983 Lloyd Bascoe Jamaica Labour Party 1989 Lyndel Frater People's National Party 1993 Brascoe Lee Jamaica Labour Party 1997 Doreen Chen People's National Party 2002 Devon McDaniel Jamaica Labour Party 2007 Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert Jamaica Labour Party 2011 Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert Jamaica Labour Party 2016 Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert Jamaica Labour Party 2020 Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert Jamaica Labour Party
Elections Elections from 2000 to Present
See also Politics of Jamaica Elections in Jamaica
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