[1] In July 1921, San Fernando Borough Council called a public meeting at Carnegie Library, the result of which was a unanimous request for elected representation.
[1] Within a few years, the British authorities agreed to a partly elected legislative council, although with voting limited to a restricted franchise.
The voting age was 21 for men and 30 for women, and all voters were required to understand spoken English.
[2] The restrictions on candidates were more severe, with candidature limited to men that lived in their constituency, were literate in English, and owned property worth at least $12,000 or from which they received at least $960 in rent a year.
[2] Three of the seven elected members – Arthur Andrew Cipriani, Charles Henry Pierre and Albert Victory Stollmeyer – were supported by the Trinidad Workingmens' Association,[3] as was the losing candidate in Tobago, Isaac Hope.