Fort George (Belize House constituency)

Fort George
Constituency for the Belize House of Representatives
District	Belize
Electorate	3,133 (2012)
Major settlements	Belize City (part)
Current constituency
Created	1961
Party	People's United Party
Area Representative	Said Musa

Fort George is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 1989 by former Prime Minister of Belize Said Musa of the People's United Party. Musa also represented the constituency from 1979 to 1984.

Profile

The Fort George constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. The constituency is based in the easternmost areas of Belize City along the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Pickstock and Albert constituencies. It is connected to the latter by the Belize City Swing Bridge.^[1]

Area Representatives

Election		Area Representative[2]	Party
	1961	Alexander Hunter	PUP
	1974	Dean Lindo	UDP
	1979	Said Musa	PUP
	1984	Dean Lindo	UDP
	1989	Said Musa	PUP

Elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
2012 general election [3] Electorate: 3,133 Turnout: 1,941 (61.95%) −7.88		PUP hold Majority: 487 (25.09%) +9.05		Said Musa	PUP	1,202	61.93	+4.29
				George Gough	UDP	715	36.84	−4.76
2008 general election [4] Electorate: 3,195 Turnout: 2,231 (69.83%) −4.93		PUP hold Majority: 358 (16.04%) −39.14		Said Musa	PUP	1,286	57.64	−18.23
				George Gough	UDP	928	41.6	+20.91
2003 general election [5] Electorate: 2,068 Turnout: 1,546 (74.76%) −15.67		PUP hold Majority: 853 (55.18%) +5.41		Said Musa	PUP	1,173	75.87	+1.28
				Carlos Walker	UDP	320	20.69	−4.13
				Francis Gegg	Independent	38	2.46	-
1998 general election [6] Electorate: 1,693 Turnout: 1,531 (90.43%) +34.36		PUP hold Majority: 762 (49.77%) +13.17		Said Musa	PUP	1,142	74.59	+6.29
				Derek Aikman	UDP	380	24.82	−6.9
1993 general election [7][8] Electorate: 2,832 Turnout: 1,588 (56.07%) −6.76		PUP hold Majority: 580 (36.6%) +11.4		Said Musa	PUP	1,084	68.3	+6.2
				Michael Godoy	UDP	504	31.7	−5.2
1989 general election [9][10] Electorate: 2,833 Turnout: 1,780 (62.83%) −3.78		PUP gain from UDP Majority: 449 (25.2%) +21.5		Said Musa	PUP	1,105	62.1	+14.5
				Dean Lindo	UDP	656	36.9	−14.4
1984 general election [11][12] Electorate: 2,294 Turnout: 1,528 (66.61%) −22.31		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 57 (3.7%) −6.8		Dean Lindo	UDP	784	51.3	+4.3
				Said Musa	PUP	727	47.6	−4.5
1979 general election [13] Electorate: 1,562 Turnout: 1,389 (88.92%) +20.85		PUP gain from UDP Majority: 10.5% (+5.3)		Said Musa	PUP		52.1	+5.5
				Dean Lindo	UDP		47.0	−4.8
1974 general election [14] Electorate: 1,287 Turnout: 876 (68.07%) −12.81		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 5.2% (+2.2)		Dean Lindo	UDP		51.8	-
				Said Musa	PUP		46.6	−4.3
1969 general election [15] Electorate: 1,229 Turnout: 994 (80.88%) +8.95		PUP hold Majority: 3.0% (−6.8)		Alexander Hunter	PUP		50.9	−3.4
				Dean Lindo	NIP		47.9	+3.4
1965 general election [16] Electorate: 1,767 Turnout: 1,271 (71.93%) −14.22		PUP hold Majority: 9.8% (−21.9)		Alexander Hunter	PUP		54.3	−5.9
				Helen Taylor	NIP		44.5	+16.0
1961 general election [17] Electorate: 1,422 Turnout: 1,225 (86.15%) n/a		PUP win Majority: 31.7% (n/a)		Alexander Hunter	PUP		60.2	-
				Herbert Fuller	NIP		28.5	-
				Denbeigh Jeffery	CDP		10.8	-

References

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