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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 ...
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. A.
Leader of the Opposition: N.H ... 2017; 2020; 2025; Political parties. Progressive Labour Party (PLP) One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
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 ...
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.
He joined the Bermuda Union Of Teachers but quickly realised that he was more likely to effect change through wider island politics. [ 1 ] The formation of the PLP in 1962, with its call for major reforms, inspired Wade to join the party, where he became secretary of the party's Devonshire Parish branch.
United Bermuda Party: 1968: 2 Sir Edward Richards (1908–1991) 29 December 1971 18 April 1973: 1 year, 110 days United Bermuda Party: 1972: First Black Bermudian Premier: Premiers (1973–present) 1 Sir Edward Richards (1908–1991) 18 April 1973: 29 December 1975 2 years, 255 days United Bermuda Party — 2 John Sharpe (1921–1999) 29 ...