Incumbents for Districts 1 and 4 not up for re-election

Former Premier and First Electoral District Representative Andrew Fahie and Fourth Electoral District Representative Mark Vanterpool will not run for re-election this year.

Fahie, the ex-chairman of the Virgin Islands Party and Minister of Finance, along with Ports Authority Director Oleanvine Maynard and her son Kadeem Maynard, were arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents on April 28th, 2022 and charged with conspiring to import more than five kilos of cocaine into the United States and conspiring to launder $700,000.

While Vanterpool has resigned after 24 years as the Representative of the capital, Road Town and its surroundings.

Fahie, a former teacher and third premier of the territory, is currently on one million dollars bail in Florida after spending 46 days in a federal detention centre.\

He now wears an ankle bracelet, and he and his family have surrendered their passports to the federal authorities in the United States.

The Maynards remain in custody.

On November 24, 2022, Fahie resigned as VIP chairman and retired from politics after 24 years.

He was first elected as First Electoral District Representative in 1999 at the age of 28. As a member of the VIP government, he has served as Minister for Health,

Education and Welfare from 2000 to 2003 and Minister for Education and Culture from 2007 to 2011.

In 2016, Fahie became leader of the VIP and three years later, on February 25th, 2019, he led his party to an impressive victory in the general election, breaking the

National Democratic Party’s winning streak. VIP won eight of 13 elected seats in the House of Assembly.

Campaigning to replace Fahie as First Electoral District Representative in the April 24 general elections are VIP Carl Dawnson, Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) Sylvia Romney and independent candidate Chad George.

Fourth Electoral District Representative Mark Vanterpool has brought the curtains down on his career in local politics after a little over two decades.

The National Democratic Party politician was first elected in the Legislative Council of the Virgin Islands to represent the capital, Road Town and its surroundings on May 17th, 1999.

Four years later in 2003, he was re-elected, but this time as a member of VIP.

He returned to the NDP in 2007, but lost his re-election campaign. Four years later in 2011, Vanterpool was re-elected as the Fourth Electoral District on the NDP ticket and appointed Minister for Communications and Works. He was re-elected again in 2015 and 2019.

This year, VIP Luce Hodge-Smith returns after her 2019 defeat to Vanterpool, Sandy Underhill is the NDP candidate, Ian Smith represents PVIM and Rosita Scatliffe is running as the lone independent candidate in the Fourth Electoral District.