Saint Lucia

Population Statistics

163,922

Total Population

24,588

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

22 September 2011

Signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of Saint Lucia (1978)

Updated: June 2015

Section 33. subsection 2 states:

(a) Every Commonwealth citizen of the prescribed age who possesses such qualifications relating to residence or domicile in Saint Lucia as Parliament may prescribe shall, unless he is disqualified by Parliament from registration as a voter for the purpose of electing members of the House, be entitled to be registered as such a voter in accordance with the provisions of any law in that behalf, and no other person may be so registered,

(b) Every person who is registered as aforesaid in any constituency shall, unless he is disqualified by Parliament from voting in that constituency in any election of member so the House, be entitled so to vote, in accordance with the provisions of any law in that behalf, and no other person may so vote.

 

Excerpts from Constitution of Saint Lucia (1978)