Jamaica votes: Local Government Elections to be held February 26, 2024.

 

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).

In an address at Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James on Thursday, Minister McKenzie said "the time has come" for our citizens to choose the next set of councillors to represent them at the local level.

"We of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are confident that the majority of Jamaicans will continue to believe in the policies and the programmes of this great Jamaica Labour Party," declared McKenzie.

He said under the Andrew Holness-led Administration, local Government has been transformed.

"Nobody can question the competence, the commitment of this Andrew Holness-led Government in executing policies and programmes using local government as that vehicle of expression," McKenzie said.

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.