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Place of Birth: Salisbury, Dominica
About Hector John
- Hector John (born 22 October 1970) is a Dominican politician in the United Workers' Party.
- He is the current Leader of the Opposition, the youngest ever to hold that position.
- He was first elected as a Representative to the House of Assembly in 2009. John was born in Salisbury, Dominica.
- He graduated from the St.
- Joseph Campus of the Dominica Grammar School, and then earned a B.A.
- in Information Technology from Monroe College in New York.Hector worked in the banana industry for over 16 years, as a statistics officer and information technology assistant.
- He was active in the Salisbury community as a leader of several organizations, including the Salisbury Catholic Youth Movement and the Salisbury Improvement Committee.John entered politics as a candidate for the Salisbury parliamentary constituency in the 2009 general election, on the ticket of the opposition United Workers' Party.
- John won against the Labour Party candidate Bentley Royer on 18 December 2009, with 817 to 512 votes (60.7% to 38.1%); the overall results left the UWP with only three of the twenty-one seats.John subsequently joined the UWP boycott of the House of Assembly, in protest against alleged election irregularities.
- After John did not attend three consecutive sessions, Speaker of the House Alix Boyd Knights declared his and another UWP seat vacant in April, and a by-election was scheduled for 9 July 2010.
- John again ran and won against Royer for the Salisbury constituency in the by-election, with 772 votes to Royer's 415 (64.4% to 34.6%).John was sworn in as Leader of the Opposition on 19 July 2010.
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