{"iso":"TT","name":"Trinidad and Tobago","flag":"\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf9","vote":"House of Representatives \u00b7 baseline forecast","model":"baseline","updated":"2025-04-28","source":"2025 election result, official count","credit":"General election results as published by the Elections and Boundaries Commission, official count","shares":{"UNC":54.0,"PNM":36.2,"PF":3.4,"TPP":2.2},"polls":[],"parties":{"UNC":{"name":"United National Congress","color":"#ffd400"},"PNM":{"name":"People's National Movement","color":"#D71A16"},"PF":{"name":"Patriotic Front","color":"#9f6560"},"TPP":{"name":"Tobago People's Party","color":"#008BE4"}},"primer":{"system":"Unitary parliamentary republic","head_of_state":"President Christine Kangaloo","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar","legislature":"Parliament \u00b7 a 41-seat elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate","electoral_system":"First past the post in single-member constituencies.","government_now":"Kamla Persad-Bissessar's United National Congress won 26 of 41 seats at the April 2025 election, returning her to the premiership.","context":"The 2025 vote ejected the People's National Movement, which fell to 13 seats and became the opposition. Power has long alternated between the UNC and the PNM.","sources":"Open encyclopedic records of officeholders, parliament and elections \u00b7 checked 2 Jul 2026"},"parties_info":{"UNC":["United National Congress","","Centre-left party with a mainly Indo-Trinidadian base; led by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, it won the April 2025 election and now governs."],"PNM":["People's National Movement","","Centre-right party with a mainly Afro-Trinidadian base; the country's oldest party, in power 2015-2025 and now the main opposition."],"PF":["Patriotic Front","","Small reform-and-accountability party founded in 2019 by Mickela Panday, daughter of former PM Basdeo Panday; won no seats in 2025."],"TPP":["Tobago People's Party","","Tobago-based regionalist party seeking greater island autonomy, led by Farley Augustine; won both Tobago seats in 2025."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"House of Representatives","as_of":"2025 election","total":41,"seats":{"UNC":26,"PNM":13,"TPP":2,"PF":0}},"region_winners":{"Diego Martin Regional Corporation":"PNM","Port of Spain":"PNM","Arima":"PNM","Penal-Debe Regional Corporation":"UNC","Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo":"UNC","Chaguanas":"UNC","Princes Town":"UNC","Tobago":"TPP"},"region_meta":{"election":"2025 general election (28 April 2025)","source":"Official results as published by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC)","note":"The 41 single-member constituencies do not nest cleanly inside these municipal map units, so only regional corporations whose seats were uniformly won by one party are shaded: the UNC took the central and deep-south corporations, the PNM held Diego Martin, Port of Spain and Arima, and the Tobago People's Party won both Tobago seats; mixed units such as San Juan\u2013Laventille, San Fernando, Tunapuna-Piarco and Sangre Grande are left unshaded (partial coverage)."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2030","title":"Trinidad and Tobago general election","chamber":"House of Representatives","type":"expected"}}