Legislative Council of Saint Helena


The Legislative Council of Saint Helena has 15 members, 12 members elected for a four-year term by popular vote and 3 members ex officio. Members of the Council are referred to as Councillors and sometimes use the suffix "MLC", while the council itself is often referred to as "LegCo" by islanders officials.

Election summary

The twelve elected members of the 2017-2021 Legislative Council are:
  1. Russell Keith Yon
  2. Corinda Sebastiana Stuart Essex *
  3. Derek Franklin Thomas *
  4. Brian William Isaac *
  5. Lawson Arthur Henry *
  6. Cyril Kenneth Leo
  7. Clint Richard Beard
  8. Anthony Arthur Green
  9. Cruyff Gerard Buckley *
  10. Kylie Marie Hercules
  11. Gavin George Ellick *
  12. Christine Lilian Scipio-O’Dean *

    Electoral divisions

is divided into eight districts, each with a community centre. The districts also serve as statistical subdivisions and electoral areas. Currently, all twelve elected MLCs represent the entire island as one constituency. Beforehand, there were two constituencies – the East and the West, and each constituency had six Elected Members. Prior to that there were eight constituencies. The four most populated districts each sent two representatives to the Legislative Council. The remaining districts each sent one representative each.
DistrictArea
km.2		Area
mi.2		Pop.
1998		Pop.
2008		Pop.
2016		Pop./km2
2016
Alarm Forest5.42.128927638370.4
Blue Hill36.814.21771531584.3
Half Tree Hollow1.60.61,140901984633.2
Jamestown3.91.5884716629161.9
Levelwood14.85.737631636925.0
Longwood33.412.996071579023.6
Sandy Bay16.16.225420519312.0
Saint Paul's11.44.490879584374.0

Speakers of the Legislative Council