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paragraph_text: General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 28 April 2025 to elect all 41 members of the House of Representatives. President Christine Kangaloo, on the advice of Prime Minister Stuart Young, dissolved parliament and issued the writs for election on 18 March 2025.
  
  This was the first election after the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) redrew the boundaries for 16 constituencies, and renamed five of them. Seventeen political parties and three independents contested the election.
  
  The United National Congress won 26 seats, forming a majority government, with its leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar becoming Prime Minister for the second time since she was elected leader in 2010. The governing People's National Movement led by former Prime Minister Keith Rowley and Stuart Young as Prime Ministerial candidate won 13 seats, losing power and becoming the opposition. The Tobago People's Party led by Tobago House of Assembly Chief Minister Farley Augustine won both Tobago seats. According to party organiser Barry Padarath, it was the best result for the United National Congress since the party's foundation.
  
  In the aftermath of the election, Young resigned as PNM party chairman on April 30, and Rowley announced his intention to resign as political leader of the PNM on May 1. Kamla Persad-Bissessar and John Jeremie were sworn in as Prime Minister and Attorney General respectively on May 1.