The Freetown constituency was created for the 1961 general election as part of a major nationwide redistricting.

It borders the Belize Rural Central, Lake Independence, Pickstock, Fort George and Caribbean Shores constituencies.

[1] Freetown was represented by longtime People's United Party leader and Prime Minister George Cadle Price from 1961 to 1984, when he was upset by the United Democratic Party's Derek Aikman, a relative political newcomer.

Aikman was one of two UDP area representatives who defected to the newly created National Alliance for Belizean Rights party in early 1992.

A by-election was held in January 1993 after Aikman was expelled from the House for bankruptcy.