The Senate (, ) is the upper house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament. The lower house of the Haitian Parliament is the Chamber of Deputies. The Senate consists of thirty seats, with three members from each of the ten administrative departments. Prior to the creation of the department of Nippes in 2003, there were twenty-seven seats. Senators are elected by popular vote to six-year terms, with one-third elected every two years. There are no term limits for senators; they may be re-elected indefinitely.

After the elections of 2000, twenty-six of the then twenty-seven seats were held by Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party. The Senate was not in session following the overthrow of Aristide's government in February 2004. An interim government was put in place following the rebellion, and the remaining senators were not recognised during that time. The Senate was re-established and elections were held on 21 April 2006. The next elections were scheduled to occur in 2008, when one-third of the Senate seats was opened.

In 2015, the Senate was reduced to only 10 members and the chamber of deputies was closed because the elections to replace one-third of the senators and all of the deputies in 2013 were delayed indefinitely causing senators and deputies to finish their term in January 2015 without any replacement. This led to a dysfunctional National assembly. In the 2015 parliamentary elections these two-thirds were filled with new elected members, completing the 30 senators.

In January 2020, the number of lawmakers retaining their Senate seats was again reduced to 10 as President Jovenel Moïse failed to hold elections in time to replace the others, whose terms expired before his assassination. Following the expiration of the terms of these remaining senators on 10 January 2023, Haiti has not elected members of either chamber of its Parliament.

Latest election + 2015 Haitian parliamentary electionsPartySenators1st Round2nd RoundTotalPlateforme Vérité (VERITE) 0 3 3Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID) 0 3 3Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK) 0 6 6Struggling People's Organization (OPL) 0 1 1Fanmi Lavalas (FL) 0 1 1Haiti in Action (AAA) 1 0 1Pont 0 1 1Platfòm Pitit Desalin 0 1 1Ligue Dessalinienne (LIDE) 1 0 1Total 2 12 14Seats not awarded yet9Seats not up in 2015 elections9Total seats30Sources: , ,

Presidents of the Senate Le Président du Sénat

Name Took office Left office PartyCésar Télémaque31 December 1806February 1807Jean-Louis BarlatierMarch 1807April 1807Louis-Auguste DaumecApril 1807May 1807Théodat TrichetJune 18071807Guy Joseph Bonnet18084 March 1808Gabriel David Troy4 March 1808April 1808Jean-Louis LaroseMay 1808June 1808Pierre Charles LysJuly 1808August 1808Philippe Bourjolly-ModéSeptember 180818 November 1808Louis-Auguste Daumec18 November 1808?Jean-Louis Larose?April 1811Louis LerouxMay 18111811Jean-Auguste Voltaire18121812Jean-Louis Larose1812?Pierre Charles Lys18131813Jean-Auguste Voltaire1813?Jean-Louis Larose18141814Louis Leroux1814July 1814Jean-Louis LaroseAugust 18141814Jean-Auguste Voltaire1814December 1814Jean-Louis LaroseDecember 18141815Pierre Charles Lys18151815Joseph Neptune1815January 1816Casimir Célestin PanayotyJanuary 18161816Jean-Baptiste Bayard1816?Pierre Simon1817August 1817Jean-Louis LaroseAugust 1817?Hilaire Martin? – 18201820 – ?Amédé Gayot1821?Noël Viallet? – October 1821October 1821–?Antoine Lerebours? – October 1822October 1822–?Noël Viallet? – July 1824February 1825–?Louis-Auguste Daumec? – April 1825April 1825 – ?Noël Viallet? – January 1826April 1826Pierre-Prosper RouanezApril 1826May 1826 – ?François Sambour18271827 – ?Fonroë Dubreuil? – 18281828Jean-François Lespinasse18281828Louis Gabriel Audigé18281828François Sambour18281829Jean-François Lespinasse18291830Antoine Martinez Valdès18301830Eustache Frémont18301831Louis Gabriel Audigé18311831 – ?Joseph Georges? – 18321832Louis Gabriel Audigé18321832 – ?Jean Béchet? – 18331833 – ?Jean-François Lespinasse? – August 1833August 1833 – ?Jean-Baptiste Bayard?1834Joseph GeorgesJune 1834July 1834Noël VialletJuly 18341835Charles-Théodore Cupidon1835June 1835Pierre AndréJuly 1835?Louis D. Gilles1836August 1836Eustache FrémontSeptember 1836October 1836Jean-Pierre OriolNovember 1836?Jose Joachim Del Monte18371837Beaubrun Ardouin1837?Amédé Gayot18381838Charles Bazelais18381838Beaubrun Ardouin18381839David Troy? – March 1846March 1846 – ?Pierre Louis Bouzi? – 18481848 – ?André Jean Simon? – September 1849September 1849–?Larouchel du Bas-de-Sainte-Anne??Désormes Ls. Lafontant? – 18521852 – ?Hilaire-Jean Pierre? – 18591859 – ?Pierre-Louis Cariès? – 18601860 – ?François Lacruz? – September 1860September 1860 – ?José Ignacio Mendoza? – December 1860December 1860 – ?Saladin Lamour? – August 1862August 1862 – ?Antoine Laforest? – 18641864 – ?Dasny Labonté? – 18661866 – ?Michel Dupont? – 18707 June 1874Dasny Labonté1875?Louis Audain1876?Aristide Flambert1877?François Hippolyte1878July 1878Darius DenisJuly 18781878Brunis MaignanSeptember 18781878 – ?Morin Montasse1879?Innocent Michel-Pierre1880?Morin Montasse? – October 18811884Brunis Maignan18851888Néré Numa1889?Massillon A. Aubry1890?Charles Archin18911891Dulciné Jean-Louis1891?Brunis Maignan1892December 1893 – ?Alexis Dérac? – August 1894September 1894 – ?Pierre-Antoine Stewart18951896Cadestin Robert? – August 1897August 1897 – ?Vaillant Guillaume18981900Guillaume? – 19011901 – ?Pétion Pierre-André? – February 1904September 1904 – ?D. Jean Louis? – 19051905 – ?T. A. Dupiton? – 19061907 – ?Stephen Archer? – 19081908 – ?François Paulinus Paulin19091911Joseph Davilmar Théodore19111912Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave19131914 – ?Stephen Archer1915?Paul Laraque19161916Abolished19161918Antoine Dubost19181918 – ?Stephen Archer? – 19191922Fouchard Martineau? – 19311934 – ?Louis S. Zéphirin19351940 – ?Alfred Auguste Nemours19411946Jean Bélizaire19461949 – ?Charles Fombrun ? – 19511955 – ?Charles Fombrun9 April 19567 February 1957Emile Saint-Lot19571957Hugues Bourjolly19571958 – ?Antoine Marthold19591961Abolished1961January 1988Louis J. NoisinJanuary 1988June 1988No legislatureJune 1988February 1991Endrice Raymond19911991FNCDDéjean Bélizaire? - August 199131 January 1993MNP 28Firmin Jean-Louis and Thomas Eddy Dupiton31 January 19934 February 1994FNCDBernard Sansaricq4 February 1994October 1994Firmin Jean-LouisOctober 199413 October 1995FNCDEdgard Leblanc Fils13 October 1995March 2000 – ?OPLYvon Neptune28 August 200014 March 2002Fanmi LavalasFourel Célestin27 March 2002January 2004Fanmi LavalasYvon FeuilléJanuary 20048 September 2004Fanmi LavalasNo legislature8 September 200411 May 2006Joseph Lambert11 May 200618 January 2008LespwaKely Bastien18 January 200828 April 2011LespwaJean Rodolphe Joazile28 April 20119 January 2012PONTSimon Dieuseul Desras9 January 201212 January 2015LavniRiché Andris12 January 201514 January 2016AlternativeJocelerme Privert14 January 201614 February 2016INITERonald Larêche14 February 201613 January 2017VÉRITÉYouri Latortue13 January 20179 January 2018AAAJoseph Lambert9 January 201817 January 2019KONACarl Murat Cantave17 January 201914 January 2020KIDPierre François Sildor14 January 202012 January 2021 PHTKJoseph Lambert12 January 202110 January 2023KONAVacant10 January 2023Present

See also List of current members of the Parliament of Haiti List of members of the Senate (Haiti)

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Further reading

About parliament – Senate, Inter-Parliamentary Union