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The Leader of the Opposition is seen as an alternate Premier-in-waiting and leads Bermuda's Opposition and Shadow Cabinet. The current holder of the post of Leader of the Opposition is The Hon. N. H. Cole Simons, JP, MP [1]
From 1968 — Bermuda's first party-based election — to 1998, the United Bermuda Party (UBP) controlled Parliament. In 1998, it was supplanted by the slightly older PLP. Most UBP members merged with a breakaway party called the Bermuda Democratic Alliance in 2011 to form the OBA. The PLP and OBA currently hold all of the seats in the House of ...
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Pages in category "Leaders of the Opposition (Bermuda)" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Sir John William David Swan KBE (born 1935 in Bermuda) is a former Bermudian political figure, a real estate developer and a philanthropist. He served as Premier of Bermuda from 1982 to 1995; Ewart Frederick Brown, Jr (born 1946 in Bermuda) was the ninth Premier of Bermuda and former leader of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) from 2006 to ...
Marc A. Bean (born 19 February 1974) is a Bermudian politician, and the former Leader of the Opposition. Bean was a Member of Bermuda's Parliament since winning a by-election in 2010, securing the seat of Warwick South Central for the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party (PLP). Previously, Bean had served in the Bermuda Senate.
The Senate of Bermuda is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Bermuda.The Senate consists of eleven members appointed by the governor for five-year terms—five senators are recommended by the premier, three by the leader of the opposition, and three are appointed at the discretion of the governor.
Elections in Bermuda have been taking place since 1620. Bermuda's current electoral system, with a lower house elected by all Bermudian status -holders, each casting a single vote, voting in single-member districts on the first-past-the-post method, came into effect with the 1968 constitution.