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Manchester 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. The constituency was one of the original 32 parliamentary seats.

Members of Parliament

1944 to 1959

Election Member Party
1944 Wendell Benjamin People's National Party
1949 Lawton Bloomfield Jamaica Labour Party
1955 Winston Jones People's National Party
1959 Constituency abolished

1967 to present

Election Member Party
1967 Arthur Williams Jamaica Labour Party
1972 Douglas Manley People's National Party
1974 (court order) Arthur Williams Jamaica Labour Party
1976 Douglas Manley People's National Party
1980 Arthur Williams Jamaica Labour Party
1983 Lloyd Bent Jamaica Labour Party
1989 Douglas Manley People's National Party
1993 Michael Peart People's National Party