Cayo Central

Cayo Central
Constituency for the Belize House of Representatives
District	Cayo
Electorate	7,180 (2012)
Major settlements	Santa Elena
Current constituency
Created	1984
Party	People's United Party
Area Representative	Alex Balona

Cayo Central is an electoral constituency in the Cayo District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2020 by Alex Balona of the People's United Party (PUP).

Profile

The Cayo Central constituency was one of 10 new seats created for the 1984 general election. Cayo Central consists of an area in north-central Cayo District including Georgeville and the Santa Elena section of western San Ignacio. ^[1]

Cayo Central is a bellwether constituency in Belize. Since its creation the party which won the constituency went on to win the general election overall.

Area representatives

Election		Area representative [2]	Party
	1984	Eduardo Juan	UDP
	1989	Dan Silva	PUP
	1993	Eduardo Juan	UDP
	1998	Dan Silva	PUP
	2003	Mario Castellanos	PUP
	2008	Rene Montero	UDP
	2012	Rene Montero	UDP
	2015	Rene Montero	UDP
	2020	Alex Balona	PUP

Elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
2012 general election [3] Electorate: 7,180 Turnout: 5,072 (70.64%) −3.9		UDP hold Majority: 44 (0.86%) −26.62		Rene Montero	UDP	2,522	49.72	−11.66
				Collet Emmanuel Montejo	PUP	2,478	48.86	+14.96
2008 general election [4] Electorate: 6,316 Turnout: 4,708 (74.54%) −5.93		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 1,294 (27.48%) +23.81		Rene Montero	UDP	2,890	61.38	+14.74
				Mario Castellanos	PUP	1,596	33.9	−16.41
				Gilroy "Rick" Requena	VIP	29	0.62	-
				Nazim Juan	Independent	29	0.62	-
2003 general election [5] Electorate: 6,022 Turnout: 4,845 (80.47%) −10.95		PUP hold Majority: 178 (3.67%) −5.07		Mario Castellanos	PUP	2,438	50.31	−3.3
				Rene Montero	UDP	2,260	46.64	+1.77
				Eduardo Juan	Independent	63	1.3	-
				Ivan Roberts	Independent	26	0.54	-
1998 general election [6] Electorate: 4,107 Turnout: 3,755 (91.42%) +16.99		PUP gain from UDP Majority: 328 (8.74%) +5.74		Dan Silva	PUP	2,013	53.61	+5.11
				Eduardo Juan	UDP	1,685	44.87	−6.63
				John Mena	NABR	37	0.99	-
1993 general election [7] [8] Electorate: 3,934 Turnout: 2,928 (74.43%) −2.24		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 88 (3.0%) −2.1		Eduardo Juan	UDP	1,508	51.5	+5.3
				Dan Silva	PUP	1,420	48.5	−2.8
1989 general election [9] [10] Electorate: 3,249 Turnout: 2,491 (76.67%) −5.76		PUP gain from UDP Majority: 125 (5.1%) −0.8		Dan Silva	PUP	1,277	51.3	+7.8
				Eduardo Juan	UDP	1,152	46.2	−3.2
1984 general election [11] [12] Electorate: 2,539 Turnout: 2,093 (82.43%) n/a		UDP win Majority: 122 (5.9%) n/a		Eduardo Juan	UDP	1,033	49.4	-
				Assad Shoman	PUP	911	43.5	-

References

1. Belize election maps, Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive. (accessed 20 November 2014)
2. Elections Results, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 20 November 2014)
3. GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS 2012, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
4. 2008 General Elections Final Results , Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
5. 2003 General Elections final results, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
6. General Elections 1998, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
7. General Elections 1993, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
8. 1993 Parliamentary Elections, Political Database of the Americas. (accessed 22 November 2014)
9. General Elections 1989, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
10. 1989 Parliamentary Elections, Political Database of the Americas. (accessed 22 November 2014)
11. General Elections 1984, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
12. 1984 Parliamentary Elections, Political Database of the Americas. (accessed 22 November 2014)