What is 2020 Belizean general election?
{{Copyedit|for=Lots of capitalization errors|date=August 2024}} The '''2020 Belizean general election''' elected the members of the [[House of Representatives of Belize|House of Representatives]] in the [[National Assembly of Belize|National Assembly]]. On 14 March 2017, [[Prime Minister of Belize]], [[Dean Barrow]] stated that he would call for early elections in November 2019. But in March 2018, Barrow pushed back and set it for 13 February 2020. On 22 May 2019, Barrow insisted that there would be no [[General election]] before 1 November 2020 in [[Belize]]. ==Date== ===Deadline=== The [[deadline]] for nominations was 21 October 2020, with political campaigning lasting for four weeks until Polling day on 11 November 2020. On the Day of the Election, Polling across the [[Country]] opened from 7 am, and closed at 10 pm. It was the third to be held in [[November]] since [[1979]]. ===Eligibility=== [[Individual]]s eligible to vote have to be [[registered to vote]] by [[Midnight]] on 26 September 2020. To be eligible to vote, [[Individual]]s had to be aged 18 or over; residing as a [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] [[citizen]] at an address in [[Belize]], or a Belizean [[citizen]] [[overseas]] who registered to [[Vote]] in the last 15 years and not [[legally]] excluded (on grounds of detainment in [[Prison]], a [[Mental hospital]], or on the [[run]] from [[Law enforcement]]) or disqualified from [[Voting]]. Anyone who qualified as an [[Anonymous elector]] will have until midnight on 26 October to [[Register]]. ===Previous election=== The [[previous general election]] was held on 4 November 2015, and the new [[National Assembly of Belize|National Assembly]] was opened on 13 November 2015, which was also the date that the first sitting of the [[National Assembly of Belize]] began after the [[2015 Belizean general election]]. According to Section 84 of the [[Constitution of Belize]], the [[National Assembly of Belize]] ([[House of Representatives of Belize|House of Representatives]] and [[Senate of Belize|S