Jamaica
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Thomas
Tavares-Finson
(Male)
Year of birth
1953
Additional information
Elected on 10 March 2016, re-elected on 15 Sep. 2020.
Secretary general
Secretary General
Valrie
Curtis
(Female)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 23 July 2021.
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
13
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
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See historical data for this field.
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Grace Imani Duncan-Price (Female)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
74
Oldest member
Navel Foster Clarke (Male)
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Elections > Election results
Results
Members elected, by sex
Number of men elected
13
Number of women elected
8
Percentage of women elected
The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of women elected in the election and the number of seats at stake at the election.
38.1%
Number of women after election or renewal, by mode of designation
Women Appointed
8
New legislature
Total number of men after the election
The total number of male parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
13
Total number of women after the election
The total number of female parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
8
First Speaker of the new legislature
First Speaker of the new legislature
First name of the Speaker of the new legislature following the election or renewal.
Tom
Tavares-Finson
(Male)
Date of election
15.09.2020
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
Date of independence
For countries that become independent after 1940
1962
Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1962
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Notes
Suffrage: Additional Notes on right of suffrage
Prior to independence after a long period of direct British colonial rule, Jamaica gained a degree of local political control in the late 1930s, and held its first election under full universal adult suffrage on 20 November 1944. This right was confirmed at independence.
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election
Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
1962
Notes
Stand for Election: Additional Notes on right to stand for election
Prior to independence after a long period of direct British colonial rule, Jamaica gained a degree of local political control in the late 1930s, and held its first election under full universal adult suffrage on 20 November 1944. This right was confirmed at independence.
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
1967
First woman speaker
Year of first woman speaker
Date at which, for the first time in the country's parliamentary history, a woman became Presiding Officer of Parliament or of one of its Houses.
1984