2022 Barbadian general election

General elections were held in Barbados on 19 January 2022 to elect the 30 members of the House of Assembly. The ruling Barbados Labour Party won all 30 seats for the second consecutive election.

19 January 2022

30 seats in the House of Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority

	First party

Leader	Mia Mottley
Party	BLP
Leader since	26 February 2013
Leader's seat	St. Michael North East
Last election	73.47%, 30 seats
Seats won	30
Seat change
Popular vote	78,720
Percentage	69.03%
Swing	4.44pp

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Mia Mottley
BLP

Elected Prime Minister

Mia Mottley
BLP

Politics of Barbados


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This was the 12th national election held since independence from the United Kingdom in 1966, the 16th since the institution of universal suffrage in 1950, and the first since Barbados became a republic in 2021. For the first time, both the ruling Barbados Labour Party and its historical rival the Democratic Labour Party were led by women.

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