HAMILTON, Bermuda — A by-election to fill the vacant Pembroke Central seat that was held by the late Progressive Labour Party (PLP) legislator, Walton Brown, will be held on November 21, the Parliamentary Registrar has confirmed.
Brown, who had been the parliamentary representative for the Pembroke Central constituency since 2012, died suddenly at home on October 8, aged 59.
Brown, a former cabinet minister who ended his parliamentary career as a backbencher, defeated Andrew Simons of the One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) in Pembroke Central in July 2017 by 540 votes to 283 as the PLP stormed to a landslide victory at the general election, winning 24 of the 36 seats in the House of Assembly.
The PLP later added another seat in a by-election, increasing its House majority over the OBA to 14.
Curtis Dickinson, now Minister of Finance, won last year’s by-election in Warwick North East after the OBA’s Jeff Baron stepped down.
So far neither party has named a candidate for next month’s poll. (CMC)
