As Trinidad and To­ba­go inch­es clos­er to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the con­stituen­cy of Tu­na­puna, wedged be­tween ur­ban sprawl and rur­al tra­di­tions, emerges as a fo­cal point for the po­lit­i­cal par­ties.

His­tor­i­cal­ly recog­nised as a mar­gin­al seat, the over 27,000 el­i­gi­ble vot­ers of Tu­na­puna have of­ten played a piv­otal role in de­ter­min­ing the na­tion’s gov­ern­ing par­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion, in 2020, Es­mond Forde re­tained the seat for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment by se­cur­ing near­ly 2000 more votes than the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ can­di­date back then David Nakhid.