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Edward Oliver LeBlanc was a Dominican politician who served as the chief minister from January 1961 to 1 March 1967 and as the first premier from 1 March 1967 to 27 July 1974. Born in Vieille Case,a village in the north of the island,LeBlanc attended the local school and studied agriculture at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad. He worked in the civil service and became a member of the Dominica Trade Union. An early member of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP),he served as a representative in the country's Legislative Council representing the constituency of Portsmouth between 1957 and 1958,and as a representative of Dominica in the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation upon its foundation in 1958. LeBlanc left the federation in 1960 to run for election to the national legislature.
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General elections were held in Dominica on 31 January 2000 and saw the Dominica Labour Party led by Rosie Douglas take power defeating the previous government of the United Workers' Party led by Edison James,despite the UWP receiving more votes. The DLP won 10 seats,the UWP 9 seats and the Dominica Freedom Party took 2 seats. Voter turnout was 59.25%. The Dominica Labour Party formed a government in coalition with the Dominica Freedom Party. Voter turnout was 60.2%,the lowest since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1951.
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- 1 2 "Joseph Isaac Nominated for House Speaker | Dominica Vibes News". Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- 1 2 "Dominica". New Parline: the IPU’s Open Data Platform (beta). July 5, 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "CPA POST-ELECTION SEMINAR: DOMINICA REPORT 23-25 SEPTEMBER 2020" (PDF). Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
- ↑ "Joseph Isaac | 2014 General Election | Dominica Elections | The Sun". sundominica.com.
- ↑ "2014 General Elections Results - Electoral Office". www.electoraloffice.gov.dm.
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