Lake Independence (Belize House constituency)

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Lake Independence
Constituency
for the Belize House of Representatives
District Belize
Electorate 5,145 (2012)
Major settlements Belize City (part)
Current constituency
Created 1984
Party      United Democratic Party
Area Representative Mark King

Lake Independence, often known simply as Lake I, is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2012 by Mark King of the United Democratic Party.

Profile

The Lake Independence constituency was one of 10 new seats created for the 1984 general election. It occupies portions of western and southern Belize City, bordering the Belize Rural Central, Freetown, Pickstock, Collet and Port Loyola constituencies.[1]

Area Representatives

Election Area Representative[2] Party
1984 Hubert Elrington UDP
1989 Carlos Diaz PUP
1993 Hubert Elrington UDP
1998 Cordel Hyde PUP
2012 Mark King UDP

Elections

Election Political result Candidate Party Votes % ±%
2012 general election [3]
Electorate: 5,145
Turnout: 3,217 (63.0%) −9.2
UDP gain from PUP
Majority: 172 (5.35%) −4.83
Mark King UDP 1,544 48.0 +4.5
Martin Galvez PUP 1,372 42.65 −11.03
Carlos Diaz Independent 223 6.93 -
2008 general election [4]
Electorate: 5,155
Turnout: 3,722 (72.2%) +0.2
PUP hold
Majority: 379 (10.18%) −17.88
Cordel Hyde PUP 1,998 53.68 −7.63
Vandley Rupert Jenkins UDP 1,619 43.5 +10.25
Gary Lambey NRP 36 0.97 -
Joseph "Seagull" Martinez VIP 36 0.97 -
2003 general election [5]
Electorate: 6,175
Turnout: 4,508 (72.0%) −15.35
PUP hold
Majority: 1,265 (28.06%) −10.71
Cordel Hyde PUP 2,764 61.31 −7.59
Anthony Leslie UDP 1,499 33.25 +3.12
Patrick Rogers Independent 96 2.12 -
Hubert Elrington Independent 88 1.95 -
1998 general election [6]
Electorate: 4,024
Turnout: 3,515 (87.35%) +27.31
PUP gain from UDP
Majority: 1,363 (38.77%) +33.97
Cordel Hyde PUP 2,422 68.9 +21.3
Hubert Elrington UDP 1,059 30.13 −22.27
Jose Sosa PDP 12 0.34 -
Jorge Ernesto Babb NRTCP 7 0.2 -
1993 general election [7][8]
Electorate: 4,139
Turnout: 2,485 (60.04%) −2.61
UDP gain from PUP
Majority: 117 (4.8%) −0.6
Hubert Elrington UDP 1,301 52.4 +6.2
Carlos Diaz PUP 1,184 47.6 −4.0
1989 general election [9][10]
Electorate: 3,376
Turnout: 2,115 (62.65%) −7.15
PUP gain from UDP
Majority: 113 (5.4%) −0.7
Carlos Diaz PUP 1,091 51.6 +5.3
Hubert Elrington UDP 978 46.2 −6.2
1984 general election [11][12]
Electorate: 2,460
Turnout: 1,717 (69.8%) n/a
UDP win
Majority: 105 (6.1%) n/a
Hubert Elrington UDP 723 52.4 -
Carlos Diaz PUP 618 46.3 -

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