Our random calls on residents of this Sandys district turned up only disillusioned voters.

Harry Patchett, 54, is so disillusioned he has no idea whether he will be voting in the July 24 poll. He has been living in district 35 with his wife and 16 year old son for five years having moved in just after the PLP's 1998 victory.

"Everything seems fine," he said when asked if he had any parochial concerns.

But, like many voters in the area he has plenty of national concerns - the "scandalous" state of education, rumours of corruption at Housing Corporation, Berkeley... the list goes on.

"I'm sure the UBP got up to just as much as I suspect the PLP has done. They're just better at covering up and they probably had more friends in the media. I'm sure they took care of their friends."

The incumbents, Dennis Lister and Eugene Cox had not " really made an impression".

He lives on Pinetree Lane, an "upper middle class" neighbourhood.

"I'm not exposed to the trash and the drug dealing, and the profanity," he said when asked to explain why the "youth hanging out till all hours of the night" issue doesn't bother him.

Walter Charlton, 50, is married with three children - aged nine, 18 and 26, and has lived in the area for 18 years.

A field service engineer for a computer company, he considers himself middle class and feels lucky to have made the last down payment on his own home.

"My mood is basically 'damn if I do damned if I don't'. My candidate I think is going to be Donald Duck," he said.

"I lost my faith in the UBP, I've got no confidence in the PLP. It leaves me in between a rock and a hard place."

Like others we spoke to he said he hadn't seen any of his representatives in recent years.

"The last MP that I saw on the property was Colin Pearman."

Asked what he would say if he saw his MP this election season, he said : "Seeing is believing and I'd tell them that I'd like to know what the hell's going on. If it's PLP 'come clean on the Housing Corporation'. If it's the UBP 'have they changed their hats or are they still snub nosed - better than everyone else, extremely wealthy people talking they turn their nose up to you and they think they are better than you'."

Mr. Charlton told us that he had always voted consistently for one party but this election is the first time he is considering not voting.

Topping the list of his concerns is affordable housing.

"I've got a 26 year old who works and I can't get him out of the house. He could probably afford $1200 but you try to find a place for $1,200 a month that's half way decent."

The district contains 1,059 voters, according to the Boundaries Commission report. This district is about half of the old Sandys North with a sliver of Sandys South added.

"It looks like all of the other Sandys constituencies in a sense. It's very strong in a community sense, it's a very close knit community and if you stay in touch with that you are aware of what is going on in the community," said ruling party incumbent Dennis Lister.

UPB candidate Anthony Steede refused to speak to The Royal Gazette when asked to discuss the constituency and his political ambitions.