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The Parliament of Jamaica has two chambers:

Jamaica effectively has a two-party system: there are two dominant political parties, and it is difficult for other parties to achieve electoral success.

The two parties were founded in 1938 and 1943 and first contested the 1944 election.

Though the years are fixed due to the five-year term of the prime minister, the date of the election is traditionally announced by the ruling party one month in advance.

Recently, there has been debate over whether this "flexible date" system is the best for Jamaica, or whether the government should switch to a fixed date system.

The first election

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The most recent elections held in Jamaica were the Local Government Elections of 2024, held on February 26, 2024.^{[citation needed]}

The next elections are the 2025 General Elections.^{[citation needed]}

Election reform

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In 2008, Prime Minister Bruce Golding acknowledged at a Conference for the Association for Caribbean Electoral Organizations that there were a number of areas of concern in h

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