February 26 is Local Government Elections

Jamaicans will go to the polls on Monday, February 26, for the 2024 Local Government Elections.

Nomination Day is Thursday, February 8.

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, made the announcement during an address at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James on Thursday (February 1).

During the polls, to be contested in 228 electoral divisions, Councillors and Mayors are elected to develop, manage, and maintain infrastructure and public facilities islandwide.

Local government elections were last held in 2016, with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) taking the majority of the Municipal Corporations.

Since then, the elections, which are constitutionally due every four years, have been postponed on three occasions since November 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.