1979 Belizean general election

none July 2020 Belize Flag_of_Belize_(1950-1981).svg parliamentary 50,091 89.78% ( 19.20pp) 1974 Belizean general election 1974 1984 Belizean general election 1984 All 18 seats in the House of Representatives 10 21 November 1979 George Cadle Price.jpg George Cadle Price People's United Party 52.66%, 12 seats 13 1 23,309 52.44% 0.26 pp United Democratic Party (Belize) Dean Lindo United Democratic Party (Belize) 38.93%, 6 seats 5 1 21,045 47.35% 8.47 pp Belize general election 1979 - Results by Constituency.svg Results by constituency Premier George Cadle Price George Cadle Price People's United Party People's United Party General elections were held in Belize, then a self-governing British Crown colony, on 21 November 1979.Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen 2005 Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I 104 978-0-19-928357-6 The result was a victory for the ruling People's United Party, which ran on a platform of seeking independence from Britain as soon as possible; it won 13 of the 18 seats,https://elections.gov.bz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GENERAL-ELECTIONS-1979.pdf General Election Results: 24th November 1979 Elections and Boundaries Department 8 May 2026 giving it a mandate for independence. Background Belize had been a crown colony of Britain, named British Honduras, since 1862.https://2009-2017.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/belize/122529.htm Belize (04/09) United States Department of State 8 May 2026 In 1964, it was granted full self-governance. In 1978, a new voter registration system was implemented, including a Voter Identification Card, the voting age was lowered to 18, and the Election and Boundaries Commission was established; this election was the first after these developments.https://www.belize-glessimaresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2021/01/Evolution-of-Governance-of-Belize-Public-Meeting-1765-to-National-Assembly-1981.pdf Evolution of Governance in Belize I. Myrtle Palacio January 2021 8 May 2026 The People's United Party (PUP) went into the election with a 13–5 majority, having picked up a seat after the previous election when Toledo District Area Representative Vicente Choco crossed the floor from the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) in 1975.Ramos Adele http://amandala.com.bz/news/bombshell-mahmud-resigns/ Bombshell: Mahmud resigns! Amandala 25 November 2014 4 December 2014 The PUP ran on a platform of seeking independence as soon as possible, while its main rival, the UDP, wanted to delay it pending a resolution of the Guatemalan claim to the colony.https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/frd/frdcstdy/gu/guyanabelizecoun00merr_0/guyanabelizecoun00merr_0.pdf Guyana and Belize: country studies Tim Merrill January 1992 Federal Research Division, Library of Congress 253 9 May 2026https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Africana/TMZMAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Belize+1979+election&pg=PA420&printsec=frontcover Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Kwame Anthony Appiah Henry Louis Gates Jr. Oxford University Press 2005 Second 420 978-0-19-517-055-9 8 May 2026https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1398989/1/Vernon_PhD_Thesis-July-2013-Big%20Game-Small%20Town%20redacted.pdf Big Game, Small Town: Clientelism and Democracy in the Modern Politics of Belize (1954 to 2011) Dylan Gregory Vernon 2013 61-62 8 May 2026 Results Voter turnout was nearly 90%.https://elections.gov.bz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GENERAL-ELECTIONS-1979.pdf General Elections 1979 Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission 19 November 2014 Although the popular vote total was close, the PUP won 13 of the 18 seats, enabling George Cadle Price to retain the office of Premier of Belize and giving him a mandate for independence (which was achieved less than two years later, on 21 September 1981). Price, the leader of the PUP, won the Freetown constituency by defeating Manuel Esquivel 1628 to 1514. The PUP's percentage of the vote temporarily halted the party's declining hold on the voters, but in 1984 the decline resumed, and it suffered its first election defeat in thirty years.https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Who_and_what_in_Belizean_Elections/QMQOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Belize+1979+election&dq=Belize+1979+election&printsec=frontcover Who and What in Belizean Elections: 1954–1993 Myrtle Palacio Glessima Research 1993 11 8 May 2026 File:Belize House of Representatives 1979.svg People's United Party 23309 13 +1 United Democratic Party 21045 5 –1 Toledo Progressive Party 96 0 New 0 521 50091 Elections and Boundaries Department References Belize Category:General elections in Belize General Belize Belize Category:November 1979 in North America