How to find and contact your Bermuda MP

Bermuda has 36 seats in the House of Assembly, one per constituency, and plenty of residents could not say which one they live in, let alone who holds it. That costs nothing day to day, right up until something changes in your parish and you want to write to the person who represents you.

Finding your MP starts with your parish, not your memory

Bermuda’s constituencies are named after and drawn within its nine parishes, but not evenly: Pembroke holds six, Paget two. That is why guessing rarely works, even after twenty years in the same house. Look the constituency up by address or parish rather than trying to recall a name from the last election.

writethem.bm: look up your MP by parish, then write to them

writethem.bm is a free Bermuda-built directory that does this lookup directly: find your MP by parish, see their contact details, and write to them from the same page. It also includes the Hansard, the official record of what was actually said and voted on in the House of Assembly, so you can check where your MP has stood on an issue before you write to them about it, rather than writing blind.

What makes a message land

An MP’s inbox carries a lot of general commentary. A few things make a message easier to act on, and more likely to get a reply written by a person:

Say what constituency you are in, early. An MP’s first job is representing the people in their own constituency, so establishing that you are one of them changes how the message is read.

Be specific about the issue. “I’m concerned about traffic” can only really be answered in general terms. “The junction at [specific location] has had three near-misses this month and needs a stop sign” gives them something to take to a department.

Ask for something concrete. A question you want answered, a position you want them to take, a meeting you want scheduled. A message with no ask is easy to file away.

Keep it to one issue. A message covering five unrelated concerns reads as a list to work through eventually, not something urgent.

Checking the Hansard before you write

If your message concerns something the House of Assembly has already debated, roads, planning, a specific piece of legislation, the Hansard record on writethem.bm lets you check what was actually said, not just what was reported secondhand. This is useful for two reasons: you can reference the actual debate in your message, which signals you have done the reading, and you can confirm your MP’s stated position before assuming what it is.

Beyond a single message

Writing once is useful for a specific issue. If something in your constituency is an ongoing concern, planning decisions, a recurring infrastructure problem, following the Hansard for topics that matter to you means you find out when the issue comes up in the House, rather than after a decision has already been made.

Start by finding your constituency and MP on writethem.bm, or read more about how the tool works.