title: Elections in Saint Lucia
text: # Elections in Saint Lucia
  
  Saint Lucia elects on the national level a legislature. The Legislature has two chambers. The House of Assembly has 17 members, elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies. The Senate has 11 appointed members. Saint Lucia has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
  
  ## Latest election
  
  | | Saint Lucia Labour Party | 43,799 | 50.14 | 13 | +7 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | United Workers Party | 37,481 | 42.91 | 2 | –9 |
  | | National Green Party | 271 | 0.31 | 0 | New |
  | | Independents | 5,807 | 6.65 | 2 | +2 |
  | Total | Total | 87,358 | 100.00 | 17 | 0 |
  | Valid votes | Valid votes | 87,358 | 98.10 | | |
  | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 1,694 | 1.90 | | |
  | Total votes | Total votes | 89,052 | 100.00 | | |
  | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 174,332 | 51.08 | | |
  | Source: Electoral Department ||||||
  
  ## Central Castries by-election
  
  Independent candidate Richard Frederick won the Castries Central seat at a by-election on 13 March 2006. Frederick defeated the incumbent Sarah Flood-Beaubrun and Saint Lucia Labour Party candidate Victor La Corbiniere.
  
  