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Elections in Barbados are held to choose members to fill elective offices in the House of Assembly. Elections are held on Election Day. These general elections do not have fixed dates, but must be called within five years of the opening of parliament following the last election.[1] A former minister of the DLP, Warwick Franklin summed up the general elections process in Barbados as saying it is really just, "30 by-elections on the same day."
Barbadian election rules are bound by certain parts of the local Constitution, various other separate legislation, and other regulations or administrative rules,[2] or Regulations made by the Commission.[3]
The politics in recent years are two-party, dominated by the centre-left Barbados Labour Party and the social-democratic Democratic Labour Party. Presently, it is difficult for other parties to achieve electoral success.
^Constitution: Section 61
^Representation of the People's Act 1985
^The Electoral Boundaries Commission (Review of Boundaries) Order, 1990
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