The Freetown constituency was created for the
1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting. The constituency hugs the
Caribbean Sea shoreline on the northwest outskirts of
Belize City, also taking in some of the city center. It borders the
Belize Rural Central,
Lake Independence,
Pickstock,
Fort George and
Caribbean Shores constituencies. Freetown was represented by longtime
People's United Party leader and
Prime Minister George Cadle Price from 1961 to 1984, when he was upset by the
United Democratic Party's Derek Aikman, a relative political newcomer. Aikman was one of two UDP area representatives who defected to the newly created
National Alliance for Belizean Rights party in early 1992. A by-election was held in January 1993 after Aikman was expelled from the House for bankruptcy. At that election the seat returned to PUP control. ==Area representatives==