2022 Santa Dominican general election

The 2022 Santa Dominican general election took place on the 7 June 2022 in order to elect the members of the Santa Dominican House of Commons. The snap election was called by Prime Minister Thomas Laurent after the coalition between his Labour Party and the Green Party broke down, leaving Mr. Laurent with a minority government. Prime Minister Laurent called the election in the hopes that he would secure a majority government for the Labour Party, the first since the 2013 general election win. His main rival was the leader of the opposition Dennis Hagen of the Conservative Party, and minor figures such as Sebastian Peres of the Liberal Party, hoping to bring the party back to live.

The Tory leader Dennis Hagen prevailed, winning a parliamentary majority for the Conservative Party, and Dennis Hagen became the next prime minister of Santa Dominica. Initial polling suggested that the Labour Party was on track for a majority government, and thus the results of this election were a slight surprise. This election sees the return of two very large parties in parliament, with a small group of minority parties. This election produced the closest popular vote in Santa Dominican electoral history, with only 23,266 votes separating the two major parties nationally out of a total of more than 1.7 million votes cast. Dennis Hagen became the first Conservative prime minister since Rosa Anand, and the first protestant prime minister since Tabetha Roberts who came to power in 1997. He also became the first prime minister of Norwegian heritage, and the first Conservative prime minister ever to come from Santa Dominica City Prefecture.