Belize Rural North

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Belize Rural North
Constituency
for the Belize House of Representatives
Belize constituencies, Belize Rural North.svg
District Belize
Electorate5,937 (2015)
Major settlements Maskall, Lucky Strike
Current constituency
Created1961
Party  People's United Party
Area Representative Marconi Leal

Belize Rural North is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2020 by Marconi Leal of the People's United Party.

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Profile

The Belize Rural North 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, consisting of the northern half of the Belize District mainland. Altun Ha, a major Mayan ruin, is located in the constituency. [1]

Area representatives

ElectionArea representative [2] Party
1961 Fred Hunter PUP
1965 Fred Hunter PUP
1969 Fred Hunter PUP
1974 Fred Hunter PUP
1979 Fred Hunter PUP
1984 Sam Rhaburn UDP
1989 Sam Rhaburn UDP
1993 Maxwell Samuels PUP
1998 Maxwell Samuels PUP
2003 Maxwell Samuels PUP
2008 Edmond Castro UDP
2012 Edmond Castro UDP
2015 Edmond Castro UDP
2020 Marconi Leal PUP

Elections

ElectionPolitical resultCandidatePartyVotes%±%
2012 general election [3]
Electorate: 5,404
Turnout: 3,761 (69.6%) 7.85
UDP hold
Majority: 515 (13.7%) 14.94
Edmond Castro UDP 2,10355.928.07
Arthur Saldivar PUP 1,58842.22+6.87
Rufus X PNP 491.3-
2008 general election [4]
Electorate: 4,879
Turnout: 3,779 (77.45%) 3.55
UDP gain from PUP
Majority: 1,082 (28.64%) +21.4
Edmond Castro UDP 2,41863.99+17.78
Earl "Bob Rancho" Perez PUP 1,33635.3518.1
2003 general election [5]
Electorate: 3,342
Turnout: 2,707 (81.0%) 5.62
PUP hold
Majority: 196 (7.24%) +1.34
Maxwell Samuels PUP 1,44753.45+1.3
Felix Sutherland UDP 1,25146.210.04
1998 general election [6]
Electorate: 2,526
Turnout: 2,188 (86.62%) +16.89
PUP hold
Majority: 129 (5.9%) +5.7
Maxwell Samuels PUP 1,14152.15+2.05
Denton Belisle UDP 1,01246.253.65
Estevan Perrera PDP 221.01-
Reni Coleman NABR 80.36-
1993 general election [7] [8]
Electorate: 2,699
Turnout: 1,882 (69.73%) +2.78
PUP gain from UDP
Majority: 4 (0.2%) 2.6
Maxwell Samuels PUP 94350.1+4.1
Sam Rhaburn UDP 93949.91.1
1989 general election [9] [10]
Electorate: 2,469
Turnout: 1,653 (66.95%) 5.89
UDP hold
Majority: 46 (2.8%) 9.1
Sam Rhaburn UDP 80648.87.1
Maxwell Samuels PUP 76046.0+2.6
Rufus X Independent 653.9-
1984 general election [11] [12]
Electorate: 2,106
Turnout: 1,534 (72.84%) 18.11
UDP gain from PUP
Majority: 193 (11.9%) +9.8
Sam Rhaburn UDP 85855.9+7.8
Fred Hunter PUP 66543.46.8
1979 general election [13]
Electorate: 1,690
Turnout: 1,537 (90.95%) +21.56
PUP hold
Majority: 2.1% (23.6)
Fred Hunter PUP 50.20.3
Lionel Tillett UDP 48.1-
1974 general election [14]
Electorate: 1,359
Turnout: 943 (69.39%) 2.44
PUP hold
Majority: 25.7% (2.8)
Fred Hunter PUP 50.511.8
William Gillett Independent 24.8-
Leslie Day UDP -
1969 general election [15]
Electorate: 1,278
Turnout: 918 (71.83%) +7.22
PUP hold
Majority: 28.5% (11.1)
Fred Hunter PUP 62.35.5
Roy Canton NIP 33.8+5.6
1965 general election [16]
Electorate: 1,585
Turnout: 1,024 (64.61%) 9.43
PUP hold
Majority: 39.6% (+2.8)
Fred Hunter PUP 67.8+5.6
Elwyn Pitts NIP 28.2+17.9
1961 general election [17]
Electorate: 1,406
Turnout: 1,041 (74.04%) n/a
PUP win
Majority: 36.8% (n/a)
Fred Hunter PUP 62.2-
Arthur Wade CDP 25.4-
Marcelo Casasola NIP 10.3-

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