{"id":5622,"date":"2026-10-13T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:00:40","slug":"imbert-says-proposed-boundaries-leave-major-differences-in-voters-per-local-government-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=5622","title":{"rendered":"Imbert Says Proposed Boundaries Leave Major Differences In Voters Per Local Government District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Martin North\/East MP Colm Imbert has questioned what he described as wide variations in the number of electors assigned to districts under the Government\u2019s proposed municipal boundary changes.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting figures during an Opposition press conference, Imbert said some proposed electoral districts would contain roughly 4,000 electors while others would have more than 8,000 or 9,000.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the proposed new Couva Corporation as having approximately 57,000 electors, averaging about 9,500 per district, while Port of Spain would have approximately 50,000 electors with about 4,000 per district.<\/p>\n<p>He also referenced proposed voter numbers for St Augustine, Siparia, Tunapuna, Arima, San Fernando and other corporations.<\/p>\n<p>Imbert argued that the differences raised questions about the rationale used to design the new municipal structure.<\/p>\n<p>He linked those disparities to the PNM\u2019s broader allegation that the changes were driven primarily by electoral considerations rather than administrative efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The figures and interpretation were presented by Imbert during the Opposition\u2019s criticism of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbert says proposed districts range widely in voter numbers across Trinidad\u2019s municipal corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}