| 词条 | Legislative Council of Saint Helena | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Legislative Council of Saint Helena has 15 members, 12 members elected for a four-year term by popular vote and 3 members ex officio (appointed by the Governor). Members of the Council are referred to as Councillors and sometimes use the suffix "MLC" (Member of the Legislative Council), while the council itself is often referred to as "LegCo" by islanders officials. Election summary{{main article|Saint Helena general election, 2017}}The twelve elected members of the 2017-2021 Legislative Council are[1]:
An asterisk (*) denotes a sitting incumbent MLC who was duly re-elected. Electoral divisionsSaint Helena is divided into eight districts,[2] each with a community centre. The districts also serve as statistical subdivisions and electoral areas. Currently, all twelve elected MLCs represent the entire island as one constituency. Beforehand, there were two constituencies (electoral districts) – the East and the West, and each constituency had six Elected Members. Prior to that there were eight constituencies. The four most populated districts (i.e., Half Tree Hollow, Jamestown, Longwood, and St Paul’s) each sent two representatives to the Legislative Council. The remaining districts (i.e., Alarm Forest, Blue Hill, Levelwood, and Sandy Bay) each sent one representative each.[3]
Speakers of the Legislative Council
See also
References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/general-election-2017-results/|title=GENERAL ELECTION 2017 – RESULTS|publisher=St. Helena Government|accessdate=7 August 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626193104/http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/general-election-2017-results/|archivedate=7 August 2017}} {{Saint Helena elections}}{{Africa legislatures}}{{National unicameral legislatures}}{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2011}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Legislative Council Of Saint Helena}}{{UK legislatures}}{{Legislature-stub}}{{SaintHelena-stub}}2. ^St Helena Independent, 3 October 2008 page 2 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sams.sh/sentinel/Sentinel_170817.pdf|title=The Parliament of St Helena - A peep into St Helena’s evolving systems of government. (page 14) |publisher=South Atlantic Media Services, Ltd.|date=17 August 2017|access-date=27 August 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Census-Report-2008.pdf |format=PDF |title=2008 Population Census of St Helena |publisher=St Helena Government |date= |access-date=21 September 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/2016-st-helena-census/ |title=Census 2016- Summary Data |publisher=St Helena Government |date= |access-date=21 September 2016}} 5 : Legislatures of British Overseas Territories|Organisations based in Saint Helena|Politics of Saint Helena|Unicameral legislatures|Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha law |
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