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This is a list of women that have been elected as members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Representatives of Jamaica from 1944 to present. [1] [2] # Name
Jamaica is the first English-speaking country in the Caribbean to achieve universal adult suffrage and grant women the right to be elected to Parliament. [1] Between 1944 and 2020, a total of 47 women have been elected as members of the House of Representatives.
The Parliament of Jamaica (Jamaican Patois: Paaliment a Jumieka) is the legislative branch of the government of Jamaica. It consists of three elements: The Crown (represented by the Governor-General ), the appointed Senate and the directly elected House of Representatives .
This is a list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Jamaica. Speaker is the presiding officer of House of Representatives of Jamaica. Annual salary of the ...
She served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007-2011). On 12 July 2011, Dalrymple-Philibert was elected the 15th Speaker of the House of Representatives, succeeding Delroy Chuck, who had been appointed Minister of Justice. [5] She became only the second woman to occupy this position after Violet Neilson of the PNP (1997-2003).
Lisa Rene Shanti Hanna (born 20 August 1975) [1] is a Jamaican politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1993, [2] becoming the third Jamaican to win the title. A member of the opposition People's National Party, Hanna currently serves as Member of Parliament for Saint Ann South East, and was Jamaica's Minister of Youth and Culture from 2012–2016.
She was first elected to the House of Representatives from the Saint Andrew South Eastern constituency in the 2002 general election, polling 4,959 votes to 4,100 for Philip Henriques of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and 127 for Peter Townsend of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). [7]
Pages in category "Members of the House of Representatives of Jamaica" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .