Belizean general election, 2015

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All 31 seats in the Belize House of Representatives
16 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party
		PUP
Leader	Dean Barrow	Francis Fonseca
Party	UDP	PUP
Leader since	30 August 1998 (1998-08-30)	3 November 2011 (2011-11-03)
Leader's seat	Queen's Square	Freetown
Last election	17 seats	14 seats
Seats before	19 seats	12 seats
Seats won	19	12
Seat change	2	2

Popular vote by constituency. As Belize uses the FPTP electoral system, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each constituency. Click the map for more details.

Prime Minister before election

Dean Barrow
UDP

Subsequent Prime Minister

Dean Barrow
UDP

General elections were held in Belize on 4 November 2015 to elect members of the House of Representatives. On 28 September 2015 Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that he had advised the Governor-General to dissolve the National Assembly and to fix Wednesday 4 November 2015 as the date for the next general elections.

Barrow's United Democratic Party increased its majority from 17 seats to 19 seats. While the People's United Party won 12 seats.

The prior general election was held on 7 March 2012, and the previous National Assembly opened on 21 March 2012. According to Section 84 of the Constitution of Belize, the National Assembly must be dissolved "five years from the date when the two Houses of the former National Assembly first met" unless dissolved sooner by the Governor-General of Belize upon the advice of the prime minister. A general election must be called within three months of a dissolution, which meant the latest possible date for the next Belizean general election was 21 June 2017.

In March 2015 UDP leader and Prime Minister Dean Barrow ruled out the possibility of a snap election later in 2015 despite his party's recent interim electoral successes.

In early September 2015 Barrow indicated the election would be called in early 2016, however no firm date had been set at the time.

The poll is the second consecutive snap election in Belize held closer to four years rather than five. Both Barrow and the opposition People's United Party support lowering the maximum term of the National Assembly to four years.

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