House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago

The House of Representatives of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Type
Type	Lower House
Leadership
Speaker	Hon. Wade Mark
Deputy Speaker	Hon. Jairam Seemungal
Members	41
Elections
Last election	24 May 2010
Meeting place
Red House, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Website
http://www.ttparliament.org/

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The House of Representatives is the elected Lower House of the bicameral Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. The House of Representatives sits in the Red House in Port of Spain. It has 41 members, each elected to represent single-seat constituencies. The Parliament is elected with a five-year life-span, but may be dissolved earlier by the President at any time if so advised by the Prime Minister.

After an election, the person with the most support among the members of the House is appointed Prime Minister and asked to form a government. With the exception of 1995 and 2001 this has been the leader of the party which wins a majority of seats in the house.

Five constituencies were added in the 2007 election; there were only 36 constituencies prior to 2007. There are now 41 constituencies.

Latest election

 Summary of the 24 May 2010 House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago election results

Parties	Votes	%	Seats
People's Partnership Coalition	432,026	59.81	29
People's National Movement	285,354	39.50	12
New National Vision	1,998	0.27	0
Independents	349	0.02	0
Total valid (turnout 69.45%)	719,727	100.00	41
Invalid	2,595
Total	722,322
Source: EBC

Constituencies

MPs for 2010 – 2015:

No.	Constituency	Winner (Party)
1	Arima	Rodger Samuel (People's Partnership/COP)
2	Arouca/Maloney	Alicia Hospedales (PNM)
3	Barataria/San Juan	Dr. Fuad Khan (People's Partnership/UNC)
4	Caroni Central	Dr. Glenn Ramadharsingh (People's Partnership/UNC)
5	Caroni East	Dr. Tim Gopeesingh (People's Partnership/UNC)
6	Chaguanas East	Stephen Cadiz (People's Partnership/UNC)
7	Chaguanas West	Austin Jack Warner (People's Partnership/UNC)
8	Couva North	Ramona Ramdial (People's Partnership/UNC)
9	Couva South	Rudranath Indarsingh (People's Partnership/UNC)
10	Cumuto/Manzanilla	Collin Partap (People's Partnership/UNC)
11	D'Abadie/O'Meara	Anil Roberts (People's Partnership/COP)
12	Diego Martin Central	Dr. Amery Browne (PNM)
13	Diego Martin North/East	Colm Imbert (PNM)
14	Diego Martin West	Dr. Keith Rowley (PNM)
15	Fyzabad	Chandresh Sharma (People's Partnership/UNC)
16	La Brea	Fitzgerald Jeffrey (PNM)
17	La Horquetta/Talparo	Jairam Seemungal (People's Partnership/UNC)
18	Laventille East/Morvant	Donna Cox (PNM)
19	Laventille West	Nileung Hypolite (PNM)
20	Lopinot/Bon Air West	Dr. Lincoln Douglas (People's Partnership/COP)
21	Mayaro	Winston "Gypsy" Peters (People's Partnership/UNC)
22	Naparima	Nizam Baksh (People's Partnership/UNC)
23	Oropouche East	Dr. Roodal Moonilal (People's Partnership/UNC)
24	Oropouche West	Stacy Roopnarine (People's Partnership/UNC)
25	Point Fortin	Paula Gopee-Scoon (PNM)
26	Point-a-Pierre	Errol McLeod (People's Partnership/UNC)
27	POS North/St. Anns West	Patricia McIntosh (PNM)
28	POS South	Marlene Mc Donald (PNM)
29	Princess Town North	Nela Khan (People's Partnership/UNC)
30	Moruga/Tableland	Clifton DeCoteau (People's Partnership/UNC)
31	San Fernando East	Patrick Manning (PNM)
32	San Fernando West	Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan (People's Partnership/COP)
33	Siparia	Kamla Persad-Bissessar (People's Partnership/UNC)
34	St. Anns East	Joanne Thomas (PNM)
35	St. Augustine	Prakash Ramadhar (People's Partnership/COP)
36	St. Joseph	Herbert Volney (People's Partnership/UNC)
37	Tabaquite	Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan (People's Partnership/UNC)
38	Tobago East	Vernella Alleyne-Toppin (People's Partnership/TOP)
39	Tobago West	Dr. Delmon Baker (People's Partnership/TOP)
40	Toco/Sangre Grande	Dr. Rupert Griffith (People's Partnership/UNC)
41	Tunapuna	Mr. Winston Dookeran (People's Partnership/COP)

See also

• Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago
• Senate of Trinidad and Tobago
• Elections in Trinidad and Tobago
• List of political parties in Trinidad and Tobago
• List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago
• Politics of Trinidad and Tobago

External links

• Website of the Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago