Senate (Haiti)


The Senate is the upper house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The lower house of the National Assembly is the Chamber of Deputies. The Senate consists of thirty seats, with three members from each of the ten administrative departments. Prior to the creation of the department of Nippes in 2003, there were twenty-seven seats. Senators are elected by popular vote to six-year terms, with one-third elected every two years. There are no term limits for Senators; they may be re-elected indefinitely.
After the elections of 2000, twenty-six of the then twenty-seven seats were held by Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party. The Senate was not in session following the overthrow of Aristide's government in February 2004. An interim government was put in place following the rebellion, and the remaining Senators were not recognised during that time. The Senate was re-established and elections were held on 21 April 2006. The next elections were scheduled to occur in 2008, when one-third of the Senate seats was opened.
In 2015, the Senate was reduced to only 10 members and the chamber of deputies was closed because the elections to replace one-third of the senators and all of the deputies in 2013 were delayed indefinitely causing senators and deputies to finish their term in January 2015 without any replacement. This led to a dysfunctional National assembly. In the 2015 parliamentary elections these two-thirds were to be filled with new elected members, completing the 30 senators.

Latest election

Haitian parliamentary elections, 2015

List of Senate Presidents

Le Président du Sénat
NameTook officeLeft officeParty
César Télémaque31 December 1806February 1807
Jean-Louis BarlatierMarch 1807April 1807
Louis-Auguste DaumecApril 1807May 1807
Théodat TrichetJune 18071807
Guy Joseph Bonnet18084 March 1808
Gabriel David Troy4 March 1808April 1808
Jean-Louis LaroseMay 1808June 1808
Pierre Charles LysJuly 1808August 1808
Philippe Bourjolly-ModéSeptember 180818 November 1808
Louis-Auguste Daumec18 November 1808?
Jean-Louis Larose?April 1811
Louis LerouxMay 18111811
Jean-Auguste Voltaire18121812
Jean-Louis Larose1812?
Pierre Charles Lys18131813
Jean-Auguste Voltaire1813?
Jean-Louis Larose18141814
Louis Leroux1814July 1814
Jean-Louis LaroseAugust 18141814
Jean-Auguste Voltaire1814December 1814
Jean-Louis LaroseDecember 18141815
Pierre Charles Lys18151815
Joseph Neptune1815January 1816
Casimir Célestin PanayotyJanuary 18161816
Jean-Baptiste Bayard1816?
Pierre Simon1817August 1817
Jean-Louis LaroseAugust 1817?
Hilaire Martin? – 18201820 – ?
Amédé Gayot1821?
Noël Viallet? – October 1821October 1821 -?
Antoine Lerebours? – October 1822October 1822 -?
Noël Viallet? – July 1824February 1825 -?
Louis-Auguste Daumec? – April 1825April 1825 – ?
Noël Viallet? – January 1826April 1826
Pierre-Prosper RouanezApril 1826May 1826 – ?
François Sambour18271827 – ?
Fonroë Dubreuil? – 18281828
Jean-François Lespinasse18281828
Louis Gabriel Audigé18281828
François Sambour18281829
Jean-François Lespinasse18291830
Antoine Martinez Valdès18301830
Eustache Frémont18301831
Louis Gabriel Audigé18311831 – ?
Joseph Georges? – 18321832
Louis Gabriel Audigé18321832 – ?
Jean Béchet? – 18331833 – ?
Jean-François Lespinasse? – August 1833August 1833 – ?
Jean-Baptiste Bayard?1834
Joseph GeorgesJune 1834July 1834
Noël VialletJuly 18341835
Charles-Théodore Cupidon1835June 1835
Pierre AndréJuly 1835?
Louis D. Gilles1836August 1836
Eustache FrémontSeptember 1836October 1836
Jean-Pierre OriolNovember 1836?
Jose Joachim Del Monte18371837
Beaubrun Ardouin1837?
Amédé Gayot18381838
Charles Bazelais18381838
Beaubrun Ardouin18381839
David Troy? – March 1846March 1846 – ?
Pierre Louis Bouzi? – 18481848 – ?
André Jean Simon? – September 1849September 1849 -?
Larouchel du Bas-de-Sainte-Anne??
Désormes Ls. Lafontant? – 18521852 – ?
Hilaire-Jean Pierre? – 18591859 – ?
Pierre-Louis Cariès? – 18601860 – ?
François Lacruz? – September 1860September 1860 – ?
José Ignacio Mendoza? – December 1860December 1860 – ?
Saladin Lamour? – August 1862August 1862 – ?
Antoine Laforest? – 18641864 – ?
Michel Dupont? – 18707 June 1874
Dasny Labonté1875?
Louis Audain1876?
Aristide Flambert1877?
François Hippolyte1878July 1878
Darius DenisJuly 18781878
Brunis MaignanSeptember 18781878 – ?
Morin Montasse1879?
Innocent Michel-Pierre1880?
Morin Montasse? – October 18811884
Brunis Maignan18851888
Néré Numa1889?
Massillon A. Aubry1890?
Charles Archin18911891
Dulciné Jean-Louis1891?
Brunis Maignan1892December 1893 – ?
Alexis Dérac? – August 1894September 1894 – ?
Pierre-Antoine Stewart18951896
Cadestin Robert? – August 1897August 1897 – ?
Vaillant Guillaume18981900
Guillaume? – 19011901 – ?
Pétion Pierre-André? – February 1904September 1904 – ?
T. A. Dupiton? – 19061907 – ?
François Paulinus Paulin19091911
Davilmar Theodore19111912
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave19131914 – ?
Stephen Archer1915?
Paul Laraque19161916
Abolished19161918
Antoine Dubost19181918 – ?
Stephen Archer? – 19191920 – ?
Fouchard Martineau? – 19311934 – ?
Louis S. Zéphirin19351940 – ?
Alfred Nemours Auguste19431946
Jean Bélizaire19461949 – ?
Charles Fombrun? – 19511955 – ?
Charles Fombrun9 April 19567 February 1957
Emile Saint-Lot19571957
Hugues Bourjolly19571958 – ?
Antoine Marthold19591961
Abolished1961January 1988
Louis J. NoisinJanuary 1988June 1988
No legislatureJune 1988February 1991
Endrice Raymond19911991FNCD
Déjean Bélizaire? - August 199131 January 1993MNP 28
Firmin Jean-Louis and Thomas Eddy Dupiton31 January 19934 February 1994FNCD
Bernard Sansaricq4 February 1994October 1994
Firmin Jean-LouisOctober 199413 October 1995FNCD
Edgard Leblanc13 October 1995March 2000 – ?OPL
Yvon Neptune28 August 200014 March 2002Fanmi Lavalas
Fourel Célestin27 March 2002August 2003Fanmi Lavalas
Yvon Feuillé?January 2004
No legislatureJanuary 2004May 2006
Joseph Lambert11 May 20062006Lespwa
Kely BastienJanuary 20082011Lespwa
Jean Rodolphe Joazile24 January 20119 January 2012PONT
Simon Dieuseul Desras9 January 201212 January 2015Lavni
Riché Andris12 January 201514 January 2016Alternative
Jocelerme Privert14 January 201614 February 2016INITE
Ronald Larêche14 February 201613 January 2017VÉRITÉ
Youri Latortue13 January 20179 January 2018AAA
Joseph Lambert9 January 201817 January 2019KONA
Carl Murat Cantave17 January 201914 January 2020KID
Pierre François Sildor14 January 2020IncumbentPHTK