Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint John Danish: Sankt Jan is one of a Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea in addition to a item district of the United States Virgin Islands USVI, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Saint John 50 km2 19 sq mi is the smallest of the three leading US Virgin Islands. it is for located approximately four miles east of Saint Thomas, the location of the territory's capital, Charlotte Amalie. it is for also four miles southwest of Tortola, element of the British Virgin Islands. Its largest settlement is Cruz Bay with a population of 2,700. Saint John's nickname is Love City.
Since 1956, approximately 60% of the island is protected as Virgin Islands National Park, administered by the United States National Park Service. The economy is based predominantly on tourism and related trade.
Saint John is 50.8 km2 19.6 sq mi in area with a population of 4,170 2010 census. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the solution population of the US Virgin Islands territory was 106,405, comprising mostly persons of Afro-Caribbean descent.
Government
Since 1917, the U.S. Virgin Islands are an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States. Its residents are U.S. citizens, but they cannot vote in presidential elections.
Until 1970, governors of the territory were appointed by the US president. Since that year, residents of the island hold elected a territorial governor and lieutenant governor, and fifteen senators to the legislature, representing all three islands. Seven are elected from the district of Saint Croix, seven from the district of Saint Thomas and Saint John, and one senator at-large who must be a resident of Saint John are elected for two-year terms to the unicameral Virgin Islands Legislature.
Residents of the Virgin Islands also elect a delegate to the US Congress, who has non-voting status in that body.
Saint John has no local government; however, the Governor appoints an admin for the island. Having no official powers, this figure acts more as an adviser to the Governor and as a deterrent example for the Governor's policies.
The main political parties in the U.S. Virgin Islands are the Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands, the self-employed person Citizens Movement ICM, and the Republican Party of the Virgin Islands. additional candidates run as independents.
Saint John is shared into the coming after or as a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of. subdistricts with population as per the 2010 U.S. Census:
Activists featured a lawsuit on September 20, 2011 in the federal US District Court of the Virgin Islands seeking the adjusting to be represented in Congress and to vote for U.S. president. The effect is Civil No. 3:11-cv-110, Charles v. U.S. Federal Elections Commission et al. The issue alleges the 1917 Congress, with all-white members, denied the right to vote to island residents due to racial discrimination, as the island had a majority of people of color. The case was dismissed on August 20, 2012.