Cyprian Lansiquot

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Cyprian Lansiquot is a Saint Lucian lawyer and politician. He was a Labour Party member of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006 and served as a parliamentary secretary.

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Private career

Lansiquot has a diploma and a post-graduate diploma in agriculture from the University of the West Indies and has worked as an agricultural officer. He received a law degree from the University of Wolverhampton in 2004, was called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2010, and joined the Saint Lucia Bar Association the following month.^[1]

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Politician

Lansiquot was elected for the Anse-la-Raye/Canaries constituency in the 1997 national elections, in which the Labour Party won a majority government. In May 1997, he was appointed by incoming prime minister Kenny Anthony as parliamentary secretary to the minister of communications, works, transport and public utilities.^[2] He held this position for the next five years, having won a second parliamentary mandate in 2001, and later served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries from 2002 to 2006.^[3]

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Lansiquot fended off a high-profile challenge by trade union leader David Demacque for the Anse-la-Raye/Canaries Labour nomination in early 2006.^[4] The Labour Party was defeated in that year's general election, and Lansiquot narrowly lost his seat to Keith Mondesir of the United Workers Party.

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Electoral record

2006 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries^[5]
Total valid votes		4,180
Keith Mondesir	United Workers Party	2,132	51.00
(x)Cyprian Lansiquot	Saint Lucia Labour Party	2,042	48.85
Kensley Peter	Independent	6	0.14
Spoiled ballots		81
Total votes casts		4,261	60.35
Total electorate		7,060

2001 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries^[6]
Total valid votes		3,514
(x)Cyprian Lansiquot	Saint Lucia Labour Party	2,061	58.65
Keith Mondesir	National Alliance	1,198	34.09
Petra Desir	United Workers Party	255	7.26
Spoiled ballots		116
Total votes casts		3,630

1997 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries^[7]
Total valid votes		4,282
Cyprian Lansiquot	Saint Lucia Labour Party	2,813	65.69
Joseph Lawrence	United Workers Party	1,469	34.31
Spoiled ballots		58
Total votes casts		4,340

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References

↑ "Calls to the bar," Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2010, p. 32; Rae Anthony, "Raising the bar for Christmas" Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine , The Voice, 23 December 2010, accessed 26 June 2011.
↑ "New cabinet sworn in," BBC Monitoring Service: Latin America, 28 May 1997.
↑ "St Lucia - Prime minister names new cabinet," BBC Monitoring Americas: Political, 11 December 2001, 16:16; "PEOPLE IN POWER - ST LUCIA," CIRCA: Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs, 19 September 2002, p. 1.
↑ Jason Sifflet, "Labour running off course?", Saint Lucia Star, 19 March 2010.
↑ Source: Anse-la-Raye/Canaries constituency election results - 11 Dec 2006 Archived 13 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.
↑ Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.
↑ Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.

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[1] "Calls to the bar," Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2010, p. 32; Rae Anthony, "Raising the bar for Christmas" Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine , The Voice, 23 December 2010, accessed 26 June 2011.

[2] "New cabinet sworn in," BBC Monitoring Service: Latin America, 28 May 1997.

[3] "St Lucia - Prime minister names new cabinet," BBC Monitoring Americas: Political, 11 December 2001, 16:16; "PEOPLE IN POWER - ST LUCIA," CIRCA: Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs, 19 September 2002, p. 1.

[4] Jason Sifflet, "Labour running off course?", Saint Lucia Star, 19 March 2010.

[5] Source: Anse-la-Raye/Canaries constituency election results - 11 Dec 2006 Archived 13 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.

[6] Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.

[7] Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.