section_path: History/Second return to opposition (2015–2025)/2015 general election
section_name: 2015 general election
paragraph_text: 2015 general election
  
  In the 2015 general elections, the party won 18 of the 41 seats in the elections to form the main Opposition party in the 11th parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. Persad-Bissessar was appointed Leader of the Opposition by President Anthony Carmona on 21 September 2015.