Saint James North Western

Saint James North Western 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. It was one of the 32 constituencies fixed in the new constitution granted to Jamaica in 1944.^[1]^[2] The constituency has featured in all 16 contested Parliamentary General Elections from 1944 to 2016.^[3] The current MP is the Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, representing the Jamaica Labour Party, who has been in office since 2002.^[4]

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	Member	Party
1944	Iris Collins	Jamaica Labour Party
1949	Alan Coombs	People's National Party
1955	Alan Coombs	People's National Party
1959	Alan Coombs	People's National Party
1962	Herbert Eldemire	Jamaica Labour Party
1967	Howard Cooke	People's National Party
1972	Howard Cooke	People's National Party
1976	Howard Cooke	People's National Party
1980	Kenneth Baugh	Jamaica Labour Party
1983^[4]	Kenneth Baugh	Jamaica Labour Party
1989	Carl Miller	People's National Party
1993	Carl Miller	People's National Party
1997	Francis Tulloch	People's National Party
2002	Horace Chang	Jamaica Labour Party
2007	Horace Chang	Jamaica Labour Party
2011	Horace Chang	Jamaica Labour Party
2016	Horace Chang	Jamaica Labour Party
2020	Horace Chang	Jamaica Labour Party

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JLP	Horace Chang	6,189	76.2	11.7
	PNP	George Hamilton	1,931	23.8	10.9
Turnout			8,120
Registered electors
	JLP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JLP	Horace Chang	7,014	64.5	9.8
	PNP	Henry McCurdy	3,771	34.7	10.1
Turnout			10,879	39.7	5.3
Registered electors			27,375		10.9
	JLP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JLP	Horace Chang	6,077	54.7	2.3
	PNP	Henry McCurdy	4,977	44.8	2.4
Turnout			11,113	45.0	6.7
Registered electors			24,687		3.0
	JLP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JLP	Horace Chang	7,482	57.0	1.0
	PNP	Henry McCurdy	5,569	42.4	1.2
Turnout			13,139	51.7	1.1
Registered electors			25,440		0.6
	JLP hold

Saint James North Western

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1944 to Present

Elections

Elections from 2000 to Present

Elections from 1980 to 1999

Elections from 1960 to 1979

Elections from 1944 to 1959

See also

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JLP	Horace Chang	7,570	56.0	12.5
	PNP	Gordon Brown	5,731	43.6	8.0
Turnout			13,519	52.8	2.7
Registered electors			25,600		7.7
	JLP gain from PNP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PNP	Francis Tulloch	7,943	51.6	3.0
	JLP	Horace Chang	6,691	43.5	1.1
	NDM	Pat Austin	551	3.6
	Independent	Kingsley Headley	41	0.3
	Independent	Hope Thelwell	28	0.2
Turnout			19,381	55.5	4.8
Registered electors			27,719		51.1
	PNP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PNP	Carl Miller	5,071	54.6	3.9
	JLP	Charles Sinclair	4,146	44.6	3.8
Turnout			9,295	50.7	21.7
Registered electors			18,347		11.2
	PNP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PNP	Carl Miller	8,753	58.5
	JLP	Charles Sinclair	6,108	40.8
Turnout			14,959	72.4
Registered electors			20,656		8.1
	PNP gain from JLP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JLP	Kenneth Baugh	10,265	62.5	24.7
	PNP	Howard Cooke	5,993	36.5	25.3
Turnout			16,438	86.0	35.3
Registered electors			19,113		29.3
	JLP gain from PNP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PNP	Howard Cooke	7,231	61.8	11.8
	JLP	Geoffrey Roach	4,424	37.8	1.8
Turnout			11,695	50.7	27.7
Registered electors			14,781		20.7
	PNP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PNP	Howard Cooke	7,062	73.6	13.0
	JLP	Hewart Henriques	2,492	26.0	13.1
Turnout			9,593	78.4	9.6
Registered electors			12,243		40.2
	PNP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PNP	Howard Cooke	4,654	60.6	12.7
	JLP	Donat G. Crichton	3,003	39.1	11.1
Turnout			7,686	88.0	18.9
Registered electors			8,735		69.0
	PNP gain from JLP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JLP	Herbert Eldemire	9,766	50.2
	PNP	Howard Cooke	9,332	47.9
	Independent	Allan G.S. Coombs	262	1.4
Turnout			19,475	69.1
Registered electors			28,170
	JLP gain from PNP