Saint Andrew South Western is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament. It elects one Member of Parliament MP by the

first past the post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...

system of election. The constituency was created in 1959. It is currently represented by the Dr Angela Brown-Burke of the PNP. Since the mid 1970s Saint Andrew South Western has been an extremely safe seat for the

People's National Party The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by independence campaigner Osmond Theodore Fairclough. It holds 14 of the 63 seats in the House of Representatives, as 96 of the 227 local go ...

, which has won it by overwhelming margins in every election since except for the PNP-boycotted 1983 election.

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