Next Trinidad and Tobago general election

Next Trinidad and Tobago general election

By 2025
All 41 seats in the House of Representatives 21 seats needed for a majority
Leader Keith Rowley Kamla Persad-Bissessar Party PNM UNC Last election 49.05%, 22 seats 47.14%, 19 seats Current seats 22 19 Seats needed 2
Incumbent Prime Minister Keith Rowley PNM

General elections will be held in Trinidad and Tobago by 2025 to elect 41 members to the 13th Trinidad and Tobago Republican Parliament. It will be the 100th anniversary of general elections in the country.

Electoral system

The 41 members of the House of Representatives are elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies. Registered voters must be 18 years and over, must reside in an electoral district/constituency for at least two months prior to the qualifying date, be a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago or a Commonwealth citizen residing legally in Trinidad and Tobago for a period of at least one year.

If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government, with its leader as Prime Minister. If the election results in no single party having a majority, then there is a hung parliament. In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a minority government or a coalition government.

Parties and candidates

Political parties registered with the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) can contest the general election as a party.

The leader of the party commanding a majority of support in the House of Representatives is the person who is called on by the president to form a government as Prime Minister, while the leader of the largest party or coalition not in government becomes the Leader of the Opposition.

Opinion polls

The North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) based in New York (led by political analyst Vishnu Bisram), pollster Nigel Henry's Solution by Simulation and pollster Louis Bertrand's H.H.B (H.H.B) & Associates have commissioned opinion polling for the next general election sampling the electorates' opinions.

Seat projections

Date	Pollster	Sample size	PNM	UNC	COP	Other	Legislative majority
9 Sep 2024	NACTA/Newday	490	25	16		0	5
17 Jun 2024		Local Government By-Elections: PNM wins Lengua/Indian Walk, breaking the tie for the seat it had with the UNC for the district and giving them control of a majority of councillors in Trinidad, UNC retains control of Quinam/Morne Diablo
14 August 2023		PNM ties in number of councillors and corporations won with the UNC in the 2023 Trinidadian local elections
12 August 2023		The Tobago People's Party is formed comprising all ex-PDP Tobago House of Assembly members, besides PDP leader Watson Duke, leaving Duke as the sole PDP member of the THA
26 Jun 2023		UNC and NTA form an alliance to contest the 2023 Trinidadian local elections
20 Jan 2023		2023 Trinidad and Tobago presidential election; Christine Kangaloo is elected president suceeding, Paula-Mae Weekes
24 Apr 2022		2022 Tobago Council of the PNM election; Ancil Dennis succeeds Tracy Davidson-Celestine as PNM Tobago leader
6 Dec 2021		January 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election: PDP wins a historic landslide victory, ending 21 consecutive years of PNM rule, Farley Chavez Augustine replaces Ancil Dennis as Chief Secretary of Tobago
25 Jan 2021		PNM and PDP win an equal number of seats in the January 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election
10 Aug 2020	2020 general election		22	19		0	3