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Simpson-Miller replaced Patterson as prime minister on 30 March 2006, becoming the first female head of government of the nation [13] and the third in the Anglophone Caribbean, following Eugenia Charles of Dominica and Janet Jagan of Guyana. In organising the cabinet following her swearing-in, she assumed the portfolio of defence minister.
Iris Collins was the first woman elected to Parliament (1944). Rose Leon was the first woman cabinet member (1953). Portia Simpson-Miller is Jamaica's first woman prime minister (2006-2007) and (2011-2016). Women in Jamaica gained the right to vote in 1919, but that right was subject to property and income requirements. [3]
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Prime Minister; Reign start Reign end Duration 1 Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022) 6 August 1962 8 September 2022 60 years, 33 days Windsor: Bustamante Sangster Shearer Manley Seaga Manley Patterson Simpson-Miller Golding Holness Simpson-Miller Holness 2 King Charles III (born 1948) 8 September 2022 Incumbent: 2 years, 145 days Windsor: Holness
General elections were held in Jamaica on 16 October 2002. [1] The result was a victory for the People's National Party, which won 34 of the 60 seats, whilst voter turnout was 59%. [1] PNP leader P. J. Patterson retained his position as Prime Minister, becoming the first political
On 26 February 2006, Portia Simpson-Miller was elected as Patterson's successor, becoming the first female president of the PNP, and became the first female Prime Minister of Jamaica. The PNP lost the August 2007 election to the JLP by a narrow margin of 32 seats to 28, with a turnout of 61.46%. [ 30 ]
Patterson stepped down on 26 February 2006, and was replaced by Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica's first female Prime Minister. The turnout slowly declined during this period of time, from 67.4% in 1993 to 59.1% in 2002. [74]
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva —appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.