Freetown is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2003 by Francis Fonseca of the People's United Party. Fonseca served as PUP leader and Leader of the Opposition from 2011 to 2016.
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The Freetown constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. The constituency hugs the Caribbean Sea shoreline on the northwest outskirts of Belize City, also taking in some of the city center. It borders the Belize Rural Central, Lake Independence, Pickstock, Fort George and Caribbean Shores constituencies.Belize election maps, Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive. (accessed 20 November 2014)
Freetown was represented by longtime People's United Party leader and Prime Minister George Cadle Price from 1961 to 1984, when he was upset by the United Democratic Party's Derek Aikman, a relative political newcomer. Aikman was one of two UDP area representatives who defected to the newly created National Alliance for Belizean Rights party in early 1992.
A by-election was held in January 1993 after Aikman was expelled from the House for bankruptcy. At that election the seat returned to PUP control.From the Publisher, Amandala. (accessed 22 November 2014)
Area representatives ElectionArea representativeElections Results, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 20 November 2014)Party 1961 George Cadle Price PUP 1965 George Cadle Price PUP 1969 George Cadle Price PUP 1974 George Cadle Price PUP 1979 George Cadle Price PUP 1984 Derek Aikman UDP1992 NABR 1993 by-election Jorge Espat PUP 1993 Jorge Espat PUP 1998 Jorge Espat PUP 2003 Francis Fonseca PUP 2008 Francis Fonseca PUP 2012 Francis Fonseca PUP 2015 Francis Fonseca PUP 2020 Francis Fonseca PUP 2025 Francis Fonseca PUP
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