Corozal Bay (Belize House constituency)

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Corozal Bay
Constituency
for the Belize House of Representatives
District Corozal
Electorate 6,237 (2012)
Major settlements Corozal Town (part)
Current constituency
Created 1984
Party      United Democratic Party
Area Representative Pablo Marin

Corozal Bay is an electoral constituency in the Corozal District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2008 by Pablo Marin of the United Democratic Party.

Profile

The Corozal Bay constituency was one of 10 new seats created for the 1984 general election. By far the smallest of the four constituencies in the Corozal District geographically, Corozal Bay consists of most of the district's capital, Corozal Town.[1]

Area Representatives

Election Area Representative[2] Party
1984 Israel Alpuche UDP
1989 Juan Vildo Marin PUP
2008 Pablo Marin UDP

Elections

Election Political result Candidate Party Votes % ±%
2012 general election [3]
Electorate: 6,237
Turnout: 4,652 (74.59%) −3.06
UDP hold
Majority: 148 (3.18%) −16.31
Pablo Marin UDP 2,340 50.3 −9.06
Gregorio "Papas" Garcia PUP 2,192 47.12 +7.25
Carlos Javier Sawers VIP 50 1.07 -
2008 general election [4]
Electorate: 5,352
Turnout: 4,156 (77.65%) +0.71
UDP gain from PUP
Majority: 810 (19.49%) +13.03
Pablo Marin UDP 2,467 59.36 +14.34
Juan Vildo Marin PUP 1,657 39.87 −11.61
2003 general election [5]
Electorate: 5,274
Turnout: 4,058 (76.94%) −10.73
PUP hold
Majority: 262 (6.46%) −18.7
Juan Vildo Marin PUP 2,089 51.48 −10.72
Carlos Castillo UDP 1,827 45.02 +7.98
Roy Rodriguez Independent 86 2.12 -
1998 general election [6]
Electorate: 4,031
Turnout: 3,534 (87.67%) +3.8
PUP hold
Majority: 889 (25.16%) +18.16
Juan Vildo Marin PUP 2,198 62.2 +8.7
Willard Levy UDP 1,309 37.04 −9.46
1993 general election [7][8]
Electorate: 3,868
Turnout: 3,244 (83.87%) +7.61
PUP hold
Majority: 197 (7.0%) +3.7
Juan Vildo Marin PUP 1,526 53.5 +3.0
Paulino Montalvo UDP 1,329 46.5 −0.7
1989 general election [9][10]
Electorate: 3,336
Turnout: 2,544 (76.26%) −0.13
PUP gain from UDP
Majority: 84 (3.3%) −6.1
Juan Vildo Marin PUP 1,285 50.5 +7.8
Israel Alpuche UDP 1,201 47.2 −9.2
1984 general election [11][12]
Electorate: 2,563
Turnout: 1,958 (76.39%) n/a
UDP win
Majority: 9.4% (n/a)
Israel Alpuche UDP 56.4 -
Gregorio Garcia PUP 42.7 -

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