List of Parliaments of Trinidad and Tobago
This is a list of Parliaments in Trinidad and Tobago.
| Diagram | Assembly sessions |
Election | From: To:[1] |
Governing party | Prime Minister | Official opposition party |
Leader of the Opposition Party |
Speakers of the House[2] Date Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Independent Parliament | 10th general | 29 December 1961 - 25 August 1966 |
People's National Movement | Eric Williams | Democratic Labour Party | Rudranath Capildeo (1961-1963) |
Clytus Arnold Thomasos (29 December 1961) | |
| 2nd Independent Parliament | 11th general | 25 November 1966 - 22 April 1971 |
People's National Movement | Eric Williams | Democratic Labour Party | Rudranath Capildeo (1966-1967) Vernon Jamadar (1969) |
Clytus Arnold Thomasos | |
| 3rd Independent Parliament | 12th general | 18 June 1971 - 19 June 1976 |
People's National Movement | Eric Williams | Democratic Labour Party | Vernon Jamadar (1971) Alloy Lequay (1972-1976) |
Clytus Arnold Thomasos | |
| 1st Republican Parliament | 13th general | 24 September 1976 - 18 September 1981 |
People's National Movement | Eric Williams | United Labour Front | Basdeo Panday (1976) |
Clytus Arnold Thomasos | |
| 2nd Republican Parliament | 14th general | 27 November 1981 - 29 November 1986 |
People's National Movement | George Chambers | Organisation for National Reconstruction | Karl Hudson-Phillips | Matthew Ramcharan (27 November 1981) | |
| 3rd Republican Parliament | 15th general | 12 January 1987 - 19 November 1991 |
National Alliance for Reconstruction | A. N. R. Robinson | People's National Movement | George Chambers | Nizam Mohammed (12 January 1987) | |
| 4th Republican Parliament | 16th general | 13 January 1992 - 6 October 1995 |
People's National Movement | Patrick Manning | United National Congress | Basdeo Panday | Occah Seepaul (12 January 1987) | |
| 5th Republican Parliament | 17th general | 27 November 1995 - 3 November 2000 |
United National Congress and National Alliance for Reconstruction (Government of National Unity comprising the following) |
Basdeo Panday | People's National Movement | Patrick Manning | Hector McClean (27 November 1995) | |
| 6th Republican Parliament | 18th general | 12 January 2001 - 9 October 2001 |
United National Congress | Basdeo Panday | People's National Movement | Patrick Manning | Rupert Griffith (12 January 2001) | |
| 7th Republican Parliament | 19th general | 5 April 2002 - 28 August 2002 |
People's National Movement | Patrick Manning (Appointed by The President in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Act - Chapter 1:01 Section 76 (1)[3]) |
United National Congress | Basdeo Panday | Rupert Griffith | |
| 8th Republican Parliament | 20th general | 17 October 2002 - 28 September 2007 |
People's National Movement | Patrick Manning | United National Congress | Basdeo Panday | Barendra Sinanan (17 October 2002) | |
| 9th Republican Parliament | 21st general | 17 December 2007 - 8 April 2010 |
People's National Movement | Patrick Manning | United National Congress - Alliance | Basdeo Panday (10 September 2006 – 24 January 2010) Kamla Persad-Bissessar (24 January 2010) |
Barendra Sinanan (17 December 2007) | |
| 10th Republican Parliament | 22nd general | 18 June 2010 - 17 June 2015 |
People's Partnership[4] | Kamla Persad-Bissessar | People's National Movement | Patrick Manning (19 December 1986 – 26 May 2010) Keith Rowley (26 May 2010) |
Wade Mark (18 June 2010) | |
| 11th Republican Parliament | 21st general | 23 September 2015 - 3 July 2020 |
People's National Movement | Keith Rowley | People's Partnership Coalition | Kamla Persad-Bissessar | Bridgid Annisette-George (23 September 2015) | |
| 12th Republican Parliament | 22nd general | 28 August 2020 - present |
People's National Movement | Keith Rowley | United National Congress | Kamla Persad-Bissessar | Bridgid Annisette-George (28 August 2020) | |
See also
References
- From the day that the writs were returned to the day that the legislature was dissolved.
- http://www.ttparliament.org/officers.php?mid=73
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,121362.html
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