The current MP is Tova Hamilton, representing the Jamaica Labour Party, who has been in office since the 2020 general election.
The constituency covers five of the nine electoral divisions in the parish of Trelawny – Falmouth and Martha Brae to the north, Duncans to the east, Wakefield to the west, and Sherwood Content to the south.
In the 1944 general elections, he polled 2,759 votes to defeat independent candidates John Maxwell (1,848), Luther Wakeland (619), and Alfred McDonald (277).
[7] Douglas went on to serve two terms and in 1953 was appointed Jamaica's first minister of trade and industry in the Alexander Bustamante-led administration.
Douglas was succeeded by Ellison Wakeland of the JLP who won the seat in the 1959 general election, polling 5,856 votes to the PNP's Cedric Titus (5,677).
[9] The PNP gained its first hold on the seat in the 1972 election on February 29, 1972, when the councillor for the Duncans division, Desmond Leakey, defeated the JLP’s Douglas 5,998 votes to 5,070.
[14] In the 2011 general election, Patrick Atkinson, who had replaced Harris as the PNP's candidate, gained 10,869 votes to 8,548 for the JLP's Meadows, and 57 for Ras Astor Black of the Jamaica Alliance Movement (JAM).