General elections were held in Barbados on 2 September 1976. The result was a victory for the Barbados Labour Party, which won 17 of the 24 seats, defeating...
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first-past-the-post constituencies. This was also the first election in modern Barbadian history to be contested by only two political parties, not including...
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History of Barbados (redirect from Barbadian history)
spearheading the creation of CARIFTA and CARICOM. The DLP lost the 1976 Barbadian general election to the BLP under Tom Adams. Adams adopted a more conservative...
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General elections were held in Barbados on 18 June 1981. The result was a victory for the ruling Barbados Labour Party, which won 17 of the 27 seats....
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Barbados (section General information)
spearheading the creation of CARIFTA and CARICOM. The DLP lost the 1976 Barbadian general election to the BLP under Tom Adams. Adams adopted a more conservative...
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election 1976 Quebec general election 1976 Toronto municipal election 1976 Antigua and Barbuda general election 1976 Barbadian general election 1976 Jamaican...
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Mia Mottley (category 20th-century Barbadian politicians)
and Domestic Violence. Following the BLP's victory in the 1994 Barbadian general election, Mottley was appointed as the minister of education, youth affairs...
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Tom Adams (politician) (redirect from Tom Adams (Barbadian politician))
1985), known as Tom Adams, was a Barbadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Barbados from 1976 until 1985. The only son of Sir Grantley...
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Monarchy of Barbados (redirect from Barbadian Monarchy)
governor-general of Barbados—was distinct to his or her position as monarch of any other realm, including the United Kingdom. Only Barbadian ministers...
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Barbadian general election, 1971 Barbadian general election, 1976 Barbadian general election, 1981 Barbadian general election, 1986 Barbadian general...
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Henry de Boulay Forde (category 20th-century Barbadian lawyers)
death, and Bernard St. John's premiership ended with the 1986 Barbadian general election he would assume leadership of the BLP in 1986 and the position...
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Government of Barbados (redirect from Barbadian Government)
the supreme law of the nation. The Attorney General heads the independent judiciary. Historically, Barbadian law was based entirely on English common law...
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Politics of Barbados (redirect from Barbadian politics)
2022 Barbadian General Election The parishes of Barbados are usually further divided into one or more constituencies for candidates seeking election to...
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Leadership Election. Thompson unsuccessfully led the Democratic Labour Party in elections in 1994 and 1999. Shortly after the 1994 Barbadian general election, Thompson...
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general elections in which the NDP lost all of their seats. After the vote of no-confidence of Sandiford succeeded and triggered the 1994 Barbadian general...
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The governor-general of Barbados was the representative of the Barbadian monarch from independence in 1966 until the establishment of a republic in 2021...
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Santia Bradshaw (category Barbadian politicians)
Santia Josette Omara Bradshaw (born 13 March 1976) is a Barbadian politician. She is a cabinet minister in the cabinet of Mia Mottley. Bradshaw is the...
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summed up the general elections process in Barbados as saying it is really just, "30 by-elections on the same day." Barbadian election rules are bound...
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Verla De Peiza (category Barbadian lawyers)
Senator, then reappointed after the 2013 Barbadian general election. She served until 2018. In the 2018 general election, she ran in the Christ Church West...
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Dominant-party system (category Elections)
seat in the House of Assembly in the 2018 and 2022 general election 2022 Barbadian general election: Mia Mottley: 69.03%, 30 of 30 seats in the House of...
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Freundel Stuart (category Barbadian Queen's Counsel)
Noel Lynch in the 2003 Barbadian general election. He contested in St. Michael South again in the 2008 Barbadian general election and defeated Noel Lynch...
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Owen Arthur (category Barbadian economists)
Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian...
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Grantley Herbert Adams (category Barbadian lawyers)
Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC (28 April 1898 – 28 November 1971) was a Barbadian politician. He served as the inaugural premier of Barbados from 1953 to...
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This is a timeline of Barbadian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Barbados and its predecessor states...
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House of Assembly of Barbados (redirect from Barbadian House of Assembly)
sits roughly 40–45 days a year and is presided over by a Speaker. The Barbadian House of Assembly chamber is located in the east-wing of The Public Buildings...
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Buivid (born 1962), Russian contemporary artist Vita Chambers (born 1993), Barbadian-Canadian singer and songwriter Vita Gollancz (1926 – 2009), British painter...
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Billie Miller (category Barbadian women diplomats)
Dame Billie Antoinette Miller, DA, OOC (born 8 January 1944) is a Barbadian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister. Miller is a member of the...
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establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2005, it was common for Barbadian prime ministers to be nominated to the British Privy Council, whose large...
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Representatives and Vermont Senate Sir Frederick Smith (Barbadian barrister) (1924–2016), Attorney General of Barbados and Chief Justice of Turks and Caicos...
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was a Barbadian politician who served as the third prime minister of Barbados from 1985 to 1986. To date, he is the shortest serving Barbadian prime minister...
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