General elections were held in Saint Helena on 13 October 2021 to elect the 12 members of the Legislative Council. They were the first elections after a March 2021 referendum on changing the governance system of Saint Helena from a committee system to a ministerial system. Following the election, the island's first

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

, Julie Thomas, was elected by members of the Legislative Council on its first session on 25 October.Inaugural Meeting of Legislative Council – Councillor Julie Thomas elected as Chief Minister
Government of Saint Helena

Electoral system

The 12 seats in the Legislative Council were elected by

plurality-at-large Plurality block voting, also known as plurality-at-large voting, block vote or block voting (BV) is a non- proportional voting system for electing representatives in multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of sea ...

voting, with voters allowed to cast up to 12 votes.General election 2017
St Helena Government, 25 July 2017 There are no registered political parties, so all candidates ran as independents.

Results

References

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