{"id":70,"date":"2025-03-13T01:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2025-03-13T01:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:02:11","slug":"general-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"General Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of 12:20 p.m. on March 12, 2025, voter turnout in Belize&#8217;s general elections reached 28.38%, with 55,912 ballots cast. Female voters accounted for 51.29% of the ballots, while male voters represented 48.71%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By midday, the divisions with the highest voter engagement were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Albert<\/strong>: 43.88%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Queen&#8217;s Square<\/strong>: 42.32%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lake Independence<\/strong>: 40.12%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mesopotamia<\/strong>: 39.41%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Freetown<\/strong>: 37.29%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Collet<\/strong>: 37.05%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Toledo West<\/strong>: 36.75%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cayo North<\/strong>: 32.97%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, the divisions with the lowest turnout were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Stann Creek West<\/strong>: 17.15%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dangriga<\/strong>: 17.70%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These figures are expected to rise as the day progresses, with polling stations remaining open until 6:00 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As of 12:20 p.m. on March 12, 2025, voter turnout in Belize&#8217;s general elections reached 28.38%, with 55,912 ballots cast. Female voters accounted for 51.29% of the ballots, while male voters represented 48.71%. By midday, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/?p=70\" title=\"General Elections\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorebelizeplaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}