On November 4, 2026, Belize’s Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) announced that the country’s years-overdue redistricting initiative will not be completed until 2027, after a series of constitutional and procedural roadblocks derailed earlier timelines. The EBC first finalized a full set of redistricting recommendations and formally submitted the report to the National Assembly back in July 2023, but those proposals never moved forward to formal enactment. Commission officials explained that conflicting language embedded in Sections 89 and 90 of Belize’s national constitution has created a legal impasse: the existing legal framework requires the country to maintain a fixed cap of 31 electoral divisions, but the population shifts of the past decade have created stark, unfair voter imbalances across constituencies that cannot be fully resolved under the current constitutional wording. While the EBC has already finished compiling updated, verified national voter data, showing a current total of roughly 212,000 registered electors nationwide, and completed all preliminary technical mapping work, it cannot move to draft formal new boundary proposals until the constitutional review of the two conflicting clauses is finalized. Any revised electoral boundaries that eventually win National Assembly approval will only come into force for the next general election held after the new districting rules are formally enacted, leaving the current unequal constituency structure in place for the near term.