Corozal North

Corozal North
Constituency for the Belize House of Representatives
District	Corozal
Electorate	6,233 (2012)
Major settlements	Corozal Town (part), Patchacan
Current constituency
Created	1961
Party	United Democratic Party
Area Representative	Hugo Amilcar Patt

Corozal North is an electoral constituency in the Corozal District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2012 by Hugo Amilcar Patt of the United Democratic Party.

Profile

The Corozal North constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. It is the northernmost constituency in the country, running along the Mexican border on the Hondo River. Settlements in the constituency include Paraíso, Patchacan and a portion of Corozal Town.^[1]

Area Representatives

Election		Area Representative[2]	Party
	1961	Santiago Ricalde	PUP
	1974	Vildo Marin	PUP
	1979	Valdemar Castillo	PUP
	2008	Nemencio Acosta	UDP
	2012	Hugo Amilcar Patt	UDP

Elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
2012 general election [3] Electorate: 6,233 Turnout: 5,152 (82.66%) −2.48		UDP hold Majority: 209 (4.05%) −5.76		Hugo Amilcar Patt	UDP	2,673	51.88	−2.82
				Valdemar Castillo	PUP	2,464	47.83	+2.94
2008 general election [4] Electorate: 5,432 Turnout: 4,625 (85.14%) −2.42		UDP gain from PUP Majority: 454 (9.81%) +9.58		Nemencio Acosta	UDP	2,530	54.7	+5.86
				Valdemar Castillo	PUP	2,076	44.89	−4.18
2003 general election [5] Electorate: 3,987 Turnout: 3,491 (87.56%) −6.8		PUP hold Majority: 8 (0.23%) −25.26		Valdemar Castillo	PUP	1,713	49.07	−13.19
				Nemencio Acosta	UDP	1,705	48.84	+12.07
				Felipe Tzul	Independent	56	1.6	-
1998 general election [6] Electorate: 3,052 Turnout: 2,880 (94.36%) +10.33		PUP hold Majority: 734 (25.49%) +7.29		Valdemar Castillo	PUP	1,793	62.26	+3.16
				Guadalupe Longsworth	UDP	1,059	36.77	−4.13
1993 general election [7][8] Electorate: 3,413 Turnout: 2,868 (84.03%) −2.28		PUP hold Majority: 524 (18.2%) +8.2		Valdemar Castillo	PUP	1,696	59.1	+4.7
				Guadalupe Longsworth	UDP	1,172	40.9	−3.5
1989 general election [9][10] Electorate: 2,922 Turnout: 2,522 (86.31%) +1.56		PUP hold Majority: 252 (10.0%) +9.5		Valdemar Castillo	PUP	1,371	54.4	+4.8
				Richard Quan	UDP	1,119	44.4	−4.7
1984 general election [11][12] Electorate: 2,157 Turnout: 1,828 (84.75%) −6.45		PUP hold Majority: 0.5% (−7.8)		Valdemar Castillo	PUP		49.6	−3.8
				Richard Quan	UDP		49.1	+4.0
1979 general election [13] Electorate: 3,843 Turnout: 3,505 (91.2%) +17.78		PUP hold Majority: 8.3% (+7.5)		Valdemar Castillo	PUP		53.4	+8.6
				Javier Castillo	UDP		45.1	-
1974 general election [14] Electorate: 2,310 Turnout: 1,696 (73.42%) +2.32		PUP hold Majority: 0.8% (−43.1)		Vildo Marin	PUP		44.8	−15.8
				Edwardo Tillett	CUF		44.0	-
				Santiago Ricalde	Independent		7.4	-
				Ernest Hall	Independent		2.4	-
1969 general election [15] Electorate: 1,617 Turnout: 1,149 (71.1%) +2.54		PUP hold Majority: 43.9% (−1.4)		Santiago Ricalde	PUP		60.6	−9.8
				Gualberto Martinez Jr.	NIP		16.7	−8.4
1965 general election [16] Electorate: 1,797 Turnout: 1,232 (68.56%) −8.9		PUP hold Majority: 45.3% (−16.5)		Santiago Ricalde	PUP		70.4	−9.5
				Gualberto Martinez Sr.	NIP		25.1	+7.0
1961 general election [17] Electorate: 1,473 Turnout: 1,141 (77.46%) n/a		PUP win Majority: 61.8% (n/a)		Santiago Ricalde	PUP		79.9	-
				Gualberto Martinez	NIP		18.1	-

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