Belize Rural South

Belize Rural South
Constituency for the Belize House of Representatives
District	Belize
Electorate	7,100 (2012)
Major settlements	San Pedro Town
Current constituency
Created	1961
Party	United Democratic Party
Area Representative	Manuel Heredia

Belize Rural South is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2003 by Manuel Heredia of the United Democratic Party.

Profile

The Belize Rural South constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. Out of the 13 Belize District constituencies it is one of three located outside the Belize City limits. Belize Rural South consists of the offshore cayes (islands) of Belize District, including Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker and St. George's Caye. San Pedro Town on Ambergris Caye is the constituency's main settlement.

Ever since the creation of Belize Rural Central in 1993, the name "Belize Rural South" has been something of a misnomer, as the constituency lies primarily to the north and east of the Belize District mainland.^[1] In 2012 it reported an electorate of 7,100, larger than any other Belize District constituency.

Area Representatives

Election		Area Representative[2]	Party
	1961	Louis Sylvestre	PUP
	1989	Glenn Godfrey	PUP
	1998	Patty Arceo	PUP
	2003	Manuel Heredia	UDP

Elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
2012 general election [3] Electorate: 7,100 Turnout: 4,987 (70.24%) −3.71		UDP hold Majority: 453 (9.08%) −16.26		Manuel Heredia	UDP	2,479	49.71	−11.8
				Patty Arceo	PUP	2,026	40.63	+4.46
				"Bobby" Robert Lopez	VIP	332	6.66	-
				William "Mike" Campbell	Independent	24	0.48	-
2008 general election [4] Electorate: 5,470 Turnout: 4,045 (73.95%) −6.68		UDP hold Majority: 1,025 (25.34%) +21.7		Manuel Heredia	UDP	2,488	61.51	+10.09
				Murlene "Mel" Spain	PUP	1,463	36.17	−11.61
				Ernesto Caliz	NRP	54	1.33	-
2003 general election [5] Electorate: 3,712 Turnout: 2,993 (80.63%) −10.47		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 109 (3.64%) −10.88		Manuel Heredia	UDP	1,539	51.42	+8.93
				Patty Arceo	PUP	1,430	47.78	−9.23
1998 general election [6] Electorate: 2,653 Turnout: 2,417 (91.1%) +10.45		PUP hold Majority: 351 (14.52%) +2.12		Patty Arceo	PUP	1,378	57.01	+0.81
				Manuel Heredia	UDP	1,027	42.49	−1.31
1993 general election [7][8] Electorate: 2,218 Turnout: 1,789 (80.65%) +12.08		PUP hold Majority: 221 (12.4%) −19.2		Glenn Godfrey	PUP	1,005	56.2	−8.6
				Santiago Castillo	UDP	784	43.8	+10.6
1989 general election [9][10] Electorate: 3,350 Turnout: 2,297 (68.57%) −1.53		PUP hold Majority: 727 (31.6%) +14.0		Glenn Godfrey	PUP	1,489	64.8	+7.2
				Rudolph Thompson	UDP	762	33.2	−6.8
1984 general election [11][12] Electorate: 2,471 Turnout: 1,732 (70.1%) −17.84		PUP hold Majority: 305 (17.6%) −8.1		Louis Sylvestre	PUP	997	57.6	−4.2
				Jose Marin	UDP	692	40.0	+3.9
1979 general election [13] Electorate: 2,280 Turnout: 2,005 (87.94%) +17.18		PUP hold Majority: 25.7% (−5.9)		Louis Sylvestre	PUP		61.8	−2.2
				Gaspar Lara	UDP		36.1	+3.7
1974 general election [14] Electorate: 1,491 Turnout: 1,055 (70.76%) +0.34		PUP hold Majority: 31.6% (−26.3)		Louis Sylvestre	PUP		64.0	−13.9
				Harry Lawrence	UDP		32.4	-
1969 general election [15] Electorate: 1,369 Turnout: 964 (70.42%) +7.77		PUP hold Majority: 57.9% (+14.5)		Louis Sylvestre	PUP		77.9	+7.6
				Allan Anderson	NIP		20.0	−6.9
1965 general election [16] Electorate: 1,229 Turnout: 770 (62.65%) −11.59		PUP hold Majority: 43.4% (−22.3)		Louis Sylvestre	PUP		70.3	−11.0
				Phillip Gillett	NIP		26.9	+11.3
1961 general election [17] Electorate: 1,052 Turnout: 781 (74.24%) n/a		PUP win Majority: 65.7% (n/a)		Louis Sylvestre	PUP		81.3	-
				Todd Brown	NIP		15.6	-

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