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Manchester Southern is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament. It elects one Member of Parliament MP by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was one of the original 32 parliamentary seats.

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Members of Parliament [1]

1944 to 1959

ElectionMemberParty
1944 Wendell Benjamin People's National Party
1949 Lawton Bloomfield Jamaica Labour Party
1955 Winston Jones People's National Party
1959 Constituency abolished

1967 to present

ElectionMemberParty
1967 Arthur Williams Jamaica Labour Party
1972 Douglas Manley People's National Party
1974 (court order) Arthur Williams Jamaica Labour Party
1976 Douglas Manley People's National Party
1980 Arthur Williams Jamaica Labour Party
1983 Lloyd Bent Jamaica Labour Party
1989 Douglas Manley People's National Party
1993 Michael Peart People's National Party
1997 Michael Peart People's National Party
2002 Michael Peart People's National Party
2007 Michael Peart People's National Party
2011 Michael Peart People's National Party
2016 Michael Stewart People's National Party
2020 Robert Chin Jamaica Labour Party

Constituency Boundary

https://ecj.com.jm/boundaries/parishes/constituencies/manchester/manchester-southern/

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References

  1. "Home". Electoral Commission of Jamaica. Retrieved 23 August 2021.