Cyprian Lansiquot

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 Mondesir United Workers Party 2,132 51.00
(x)Cyprian Lansiquot Saint Lucia Labour Party 2,042 48.85
Kensley Peter Independent 6 0.14
Total valid votes 4,180
Spoiled ballots 81
Total votes casts 4,261 60.35
Total electorate 7,060
2001 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries[6]
(x)Cyprian Lansiquot Saint Lucia Labour Party 2,061 58.65
Keith Mondesir National Alliance 1,198 34.09
Petra Desir United Workers Party 255 7.26
Total valid votes 3,514
Spoiled ballots 116
Total votes casts 3,630
1997 Saint Lucian general election
Anse-la-Raye/Canaries[7]
Cyprian Lansiquot Saint Lucia Labour Party 2,813 65.69
Joseph Lawrence United Workers Party 1,469 34.31
Total valid votes 4,282
Spoiled ballots 58
Total votes casts 4,340

References
  1. "Calls to the bar," Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2010, p. 32; Rae Anthony, "Raising the bar for Christmas" Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, 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 Archived 13 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.
  6. Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results Archived 2011-09-01 at the Wayback Machine (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.
  7. Sources: Constituencies '87–2001 Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (results) and Saint Lucia General Election Results Archived 2011-09-01 at the Wayback Machine (names), Saint Lucia Government Statistics Department, accessed 26 June 2011.


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