Cayo South

Cayo South
Constituency for the Belize House of Representatives
District	Cayo
Electorate	6,905 (2012)
Major settlements	Valley of Peace, Armenia
Current constituency
Created	1961
Party	People's United Party
Area Representative	Julius Espat

Cayo South is an electoral constituency in the Cayo District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2012 by Julius Espat of the People's United Party.

Profile

The Cayo South constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. The largely rural constituency consists of approximately two-thirds of the Cayo District, stretching north and east from the Guatemalan border in the west up to the border with the Orange Walk District in the north. Cayo South is geographically the largest constituency in the country. ^[1]

Prior to 2008 Cayo South included the Belizean capital city, Belmopan, after which the city was represented by its own constituency.

Area representatives

Election		Area representative [2]	Party
	1961	Santiago Perdomo	PUP
	1965	Santiago Perdomo	PUP
	1969	Santiago Perdomo	PUP
	1974	Santiago Perdomo	PUP
	1979	Sam Waight	PUP
	1984	Sam Waight	PUP
	1989	Sam Waight	PUP
	1993	Sam Waight	PUP
	1998	Agripino Cawich	PUP
	2003	Agripino Cawich	PUP
	2003 by-election	John Saldivar	UDP
	2008	Ramon Witz	UDP
	2012	Julius Espat	PUP
	2015	Julius Espat	PUP
	2020	Julius Espat	PUP
	2025	Julius Espat	PUP

Elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
2025 general election [3] Electorate: 8,244 Turnout: 5,177 (62.80%) −11.62		PUP hold Majority: 3,966 (76.61%) +19.55		Julius Espat	PUP	4,476	86.46	+7.93
				June Young	UDP	510	9.85	−11.62
				Jose Antonio Samayoa	UDP	67	1.29	−20.18
2020 general election [4] Electorate: 7,069 Turnout: 5,261 (74.42%) +5.76		PUP hold Majority: 2,958 (57.06%) +35.22		Julius Espat	PUP	4,071	78.53	+19.65
				Ramon Francisco Witz	UDP	1,113	21.47	−15.57
2015 general election [5] Electorate: 7,442 Turnout: 5,108 (68.64%) −6.96		PUP hold Majority: 1,116 (21.84%) +3.79		Julius Espat	PUP	3,008	58.88	+0.43
				Ralph Huang	UDP	1,892	37.04	−3.36
				Andrew Williams	BPP	77	1.51	-
				John Banner	Independent	57	1.12	-
2012 general election [6] Electorate: 6,905 Turnout: 5,220 (75.6%) −1.7		PUP gain from UDP Majority: 942 (18.05%) +6.6		Julius Espat	PUP	3,051	58.45	+17.94
				Ramon Witz	UDP	2,109	40.4	−12.02
2008 general election [7] Electorate: 5,871 Turnout: 4,538 (77.3%) +4.67		UDP hold Majority: 520 (11.45%) +9.74		Ramon Witz	UDP	2,379	52.42	+1.94
				Charles Galvez	PUP	1,859	40.97	−7.8
				Richard Smith	NBA	159	3.5	-
				Hubert Enriquez	VIP	96	2.12	-
October 2003 by-election [8] Electorate: 8,814 Turnout: 6,402 (72.63%) −2.72		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 110 (1.71%) +1.33		John Saldivar	UDP	3,232	50.48	+1.31
				Joaquin Cawich	PUP	3,122	48.77	−0.78
2003 general election [9] Electorate: 8,344 Turnout: 6,278 (75.35%) −12.23		PUP hold Majority: 24 (0.38%) −32.12		Agripino Cawich	PUP	3,111	49.55	−12.69
				John Saldivar	UDP	3,087	49.17	+19.43
1998 general election [10] Electorate: 5,186 Turnout: 4,542 (87.58%) +18.44		PUP hold Majority: 1,476 (32.5%) +26.1		Agripino Cawich	PUP	2,827	62.24	+9.64
				John Saldivar	UDP	1,351	29.74	−16.46
				Ismael "Miley" Garcia	Independent	272	5.99	-
				Melvin Hulse Sr.	NABR	43	0.95	-
				Rodolfo (Dopo) Lopez	PDP	14	0.31	-
1993 general election [11] [12] Electorate: 3,795 Turnout: 2,624 (69.14%) −5.32		PUP hold Majority: 167 (6.4%) −15.2		Sam Waight	PUP	1,379	52.6	−7.2
				Melvin Hulse Sr.	UDP	1,212	46.2	+8.0
				Curnell Garbutt	Independent	33	1.3	-
1989 general election [13] [14] Electorate: 3,199 Turnout: 2,382 (74.46%) −1.21		PUP hold Majority: 515 (21.6%) +19.5		Sam Waight	PUP	1,425	59.8	+9.8
				Phillip Brackett	UDP	910	38.2	−9.7
1984 general election [15] [16] Electorate: 2,277 Turnout: 1,723 (75.67%) −14.21		PUP hold Majority: 36 (2.1%) −9.9		Sam Waight	PUP	861	50.0	−5.2
				Harold Flowers	UDP	825	47.9	+4.7
1979 general election [17] Electorate: 3,181 Turnout: 2,859 (89.88%) +16.46		PUP hold Majority: 12.0% (−11.1)		Sam Waight	PUP		55.2	−4.6
				Teodosio Ochoa	UDP		43.2	+6.5
1974 general election [18] Electorate: 2,310 Turnout: 1,696 (73.42%) −0.51		PUP hold Majority: 23.1% (+12.1)		Santiago Perdomo	PUP		59.8	+9.8
				Pedro Mena	UDP		36.7	-
1969 general election [19] Electorate: 1,565 Turnout: 1,157 (73.93%) +2.84		PUP hold Majority: 11.0% (−12.4)		Santiago Perdomo	PUP		50.0	−9.9
				Pedro Mena	NIP		39.0	+2.5
				Miguel Ruiz	Independent		8.8	-
1965 general election [20] Electorate: 1,771 Turnout: 1,259 (71.09%) −10.85		PUP hold Majority: 23.4% (−7.9)		Santiago Perdomo	PUP		59.9	−1.4
				Pedro Mena	NIP		36.5	+30.7
1961 general election [21] Electorate: 1,174 Turnout: 962 (81.94%) n/a		PUP win Majority: 31.3% (n/a)		Santiago Perdomo	PUP		61.3	-
				Eduardo Espat	CDP		30.0	-
				Pedro Mena	NIP		5.8	-

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