Cyprian Lansiquot Explained

Cyprian Lansiquot is a Saint Lucian lawyer and politician. He was a Labour Party member of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006 and served as a parliamentary secretary.

Private career

Lansiquot has a diploma and a post-graduate diploma in agriculture from the University of the West Indies and has worked as an agricultural officer. He received a law degree from the University of Wolverhampton in 2004, was called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2010, and joined the Saint Lucia Bar Association the following month.[1]

Politician

Lansiquot was elected for the Anse-la-Raye/Canaries constituency in the 1997 national elections, in which the Labour Party won a majority government. In May 1997, he was appointed by incoming prime minister Kenny Anthony as parliamentary secretary to the minister of communications, works, transport and public utilities.[2] He held this position for the next five years, having won a second parliamentary mandate in 2001, and later served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries from 2002 to 2006.[3]

Lansiquot fended off a high-profile challenge by trade union leader David Demacque for the Anse-la-Raye/Canaries Labour nomination in early 2006.[4] The Labour Party was defeated in that year's general election, and Lansiquot narrowly lost his seat to Keith Mondesir of the United Workers Party.

Electoral record

2006 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries[5]
Keith MondesirUnited Workers Party2,13251.00
(x)Cyprian LansiquotSaint Lucia Labour Party2,04248.85
Kensley PeterIndependent60.14
Total valid votes4,180
Spoiled ballots81
Total votes casts4,26160.35
Total electorate7,060
2001 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries[6]
(x)Cyprian LansiquotSaint Lucia Labour Party2,06158.65
Keith MondesirNational Alliance1,19834.09
Petra DesirUnited Workers Party2557.26
Total valid votes3,514
Spoiled ballots116
Total votes casts3,630
1997 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries[7]
Cyprian LansiquotSaint Lucia Labour Party2,81365.69
Joseph LawrenceUnited Workers Party1,46934.31
Total valid votes4,282
Spoiled ballots58
Total votes casts4,340

Notes and References

  1. "Calls to the bar," Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2010, p. 32; Rae Anthony, "Raising the bar for Christmas", The Voice, 23 December 2010, accessed 26 June 2011.
  2. "New cabinet sworn in," BBC Monitoring Service: Latin America, 28 May 1997.
  3. "St Lucia - Prime minister names new cabinet," BBC Monitoring Americas: Political, 11 December 2001, 16:16; "PEOPLE IN POWER - ST LUCIA," CIRCA: Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs, 19 September 2002, p. 1.
  4. Jason Sifflet, "Labour running off course?", Saint Lucia Star, 19 March 2010.
  5. Source: Anse-la-Raye/Canaries constituency election results - 11 Dec 2006, Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.
  6. Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.
  7. Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.

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