Bermuda Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Bermuda

Type: British dependent territory

Capital: Hamilton

Political subdivisions: 9 parishes

Legal system: English law

Branches: Executive Council (cabinet) appointed by governor, led by government leader; bicameral legislature with an appointed Senate and a 40-member directly elected House of Assembly; Supreme Court

Government leaders: Viscount

DUNROSSIL, Governor (since 1983); John William David SWAN, Premier (since 1982)

Suffrage: universal adult over age 21

Elections: at least once every five years; last general election October 1985

Political parties and leaders: United Bermuda Party (UBP), John W. D. Swan; Progressive Labor Party (PLP), Frederick Wade; National Liberal Party, Gilbert Darrell; PLP Members for Change (informal)

Voting strength: 1985 elections—UBP 31 House of Assembly seats; PLP, 7; National Liberal Party, 2

Communists: negligible

Other political or pressure groups:

Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU), headed by Ottiwell Simmons

Member of: INTERPOL, WHO

NOTE: The information regarding Bermuda on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bermuda 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bermuda 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.