Margaret Hector

Margaret Hector (died 2013) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician from the National Alliance for Reconstruction.

Career Before entering politics, Hector worked as a waitress. She was elected in the 1986 Trinidad and Tobago general election for the constituency of Diego Martin West. She remains the only non-People's National Movement candidate to win the seat. In the National Alliance for Reconstruction administration she served as Parliamentary Secretary of Health, Welfare and the Status of Women and as a Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister. She was succeeded by future prime minister Keith Rowley in the 1991 general election.

Personal life Margaret Hector died in 2013. Her daughter Avonelle Hector contested Diego Martin West for the Congress of the People (COP) in the 2015 Trinidad and Tobago general election. The organisation engages in humanitarian efforts.