PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- CONCACAF President Jack Warner has been re-elected to the Trinidadian Parliament, retaining his Chaguanas West seat as part of the United National Congress coalition that also elected the country's first female Prime Minister on Monday.

Warner defeated Ronald Heera of the People's National Movement for the seat and as chairman of the UNC is expected to claim a cabinet post in the administration of Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

Persad-Bissessar's UNC-led People's Partnership coalition won 29 seats in the 41-seat legislature with 53 percent of the vote, ousting the government of the PNM's Patrick Manning, who has held the post of Prime Minister for 13 of the past 17 years.