Belize Rural North

Belize Rural North
Constituency for the Belize House of Representatives
District	Belize
Electorate	5,404 (2012)
Major settlements	Maskall, Lucky Strike
Current constituency
Created	1961
Party	United Democratic Party
Area Representative	Edmond Castro

Belize Rural North is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2008 by Edmond Castro of the United Democratic Party.

Profile

The Belize Rural North constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. Out of the 13 Belize District constituencies it is one of three located outside the Belize City limits, consisting of the northern half of the Belize District mainland. Altun Ha, a major Mayan ruin, is located in the constituency.^[1]

Area Representatives

Election		Area Representative[2]	Party
	1961	Fred Hunter	PUP
	1984	Sam Rhaburn	UDP
	1993	Maxwell Samuels	PUP
	2008	Edmond Castro	UDP

Elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
2012 general election [3] Electorate: 5,404 Turnout: 3,761 (69.6%) −7.85		UDP hold Majority: 515 (13.7%) −14.94		Edmond Castro	UDP	2,103	55.92	−8.07
				Arthur Saldivar	PUP	1,588	42.22	+6.87
				Rufus X	PNP	49	1.3	-
2008 general election [4] Electorate: 4,879 Turnout: 3,779 (77.45%) −3.55		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 1,082 (28.64%) +21.4		Edmond Castro	UDP	2,418	63.99	+17.78
				Earl "Bob Rancho" Perez	PUP	1,336	35.35	−18.1
2003 general election [5] Electorate: 3,342 Turnout: 2,707 (81.0%) −5.62		PUP hold Majority: 196 (7.24%) +1.34		Maxwell Samuels	PUP	1,447	53.45	+1.3
				Felix Sutherland	UDP	1,251	46.21	−0.04
1998 general election [6] Electorate: 2,526 Turnout: 2,188 (86.62%) +16.89		PUP hold Majority: 129 (5.9%) +5.7		Maxwell Samuels	PUP	1,141	52.15	+2.05
				Denton Belisle	UDP	1,012	46.25	−3.65
				Estevan Perrera	PDP	22	1.01	-
				Reni Coleman	NABR	8	0.36	-
1993 general election [7][8] Electorate: 2,699 Turnout: 1,882 (69.73%) +2.78		PUP gain from UDP Majority: 4 (0.2%) −2.6		Maxwell Samuels	PUP	943	50.1	+4.1
				Sam Rhaburn	UDP	939	49.9	−1.1
1989 general election [9][10] Electorate: 2,469 Turnout: 1,653 (66.95%) −5.89		UDP hold Majority: 46 (2.8%) −9.1		Sam Rhaburn	UDP	806	48.8	−7.1
				Maxwell Samuels	PUP	760	46.0	+2.6
				Rufus X	Independent	65	3.9	-
1984 general election [11][12] Electorate: 2,106 Turnout: 1,534 (72.84%) −18.11		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 193 (11.9%) +9.8		Sam Rhaburn	UDP	858	55.9	+7.8
				Fred Hunter	PUP	665	43.4	−6.8
1979 general election [13] Electorate: 1,690 Turnout: 1,537 (90.95%) +21.56		PUP hold Majority: 2.1% (−23.6)		Fred Hunter	PUP		50.2	−0.3
				Lionel Tillett	UDP		48.1	-
1974 general election [14] Electorate: 1,359 Turnout: 943 (69.39%) −2.44		PUP hold Majority: 25.7% (−2.8)		Fred Hunter	PUP		50.5	−11.8
				William Gillett	Independent		24.8	-
				Leslie Day	UDP			-
1969 general election [15] Electorate: 1,278 Turnout: 918 (71.83%) +7.22		PUP hold Majority: 28.5% (−11.1)		Fred Hunter	PUP		62.3	−5.5
				Roy Canton	NIP		33.8	+5.6
1965 general election [16] Electorate: 1,585 Turnout: 1,024 (64.61%) −9.43		PUP hold Majority: 39.6% (+2.8)		Fred Hunter	PUP		67.8	+5.6
				Elwyn Pitts	NIP		28.2	+17.9
1961 general election [17] Electorate: 1,406 Turnout: 1,041 (74.04%) n/a		PUP win Majority: 36.8% (n/a)		Fred Hunter	PUP		62.2	-
				Arthur Wade	CDP		25.4	-
				Marcelo Casasola	NIP		10.3	-

References

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