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Districts of the Turks and Caicos Islands

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The Turks and Caicos Islands are divided into five administrative districts (one in the Turks Islands and four in the Caicos Islands), and the Island of Grand Turk; four of these are headed by District Commissioners, and Providenciales District is run by the Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Premier in Providenciales. The Island of Grand Turk is directly administered by the TCI Government.[1]

Map of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
NrAdministrative DistrictHeadquartersArea (km2)Population[a]Electoral Districts
Caicos Islands
1Providenciales (including West Caicos)Providenciales163.623,7696
2North CaicosBottle Creek144.91,4432
3Middle CaicosConch Bar144.21681
4South Caicos (including East Caicos)Cockburn Harbour136.81,1392
Turks Islands
5Grand TurkCockburn Town17.64,8314
6Salt CaySalt Cay9.1108-
Turks and Caicos IslandsCockburn Town616.331,45815

(the area figures were determined from information in "TCI Physical Characteristics")[2]

Electoral Districts

For the legislative council, the Turks and Caicos Islands are divided into fifteen Electoral Districts (four in the Turks Islands and eleven in the Caicos Islands):[3][4][5][6]

Electoral DistrictOfficial DescriptionRepresentative as of 2004-10-13
Turks Islands
Electoral District OneWest Road, Grand TurkDwayne Taylor
Electoral District TwoOverback, Grand TurkFloyd Basil Hall
Electoral District ThreeBacksalina-North, Grand TurkOswald O. Skippings
Electoral District FourBacksalina-South, Grand Turk1) Derek Hugh Taylor
Caicos Islands
Electoral District FiveSouth Caicos South, South Caicos2) McAllister Eugene Hanchell
Electoral District SixSouth Caicos North, South CaicosNorman B. Saunders
Electoral District SevenMiddle CaicosJeffrey Christoval Hall
Electoral District EightNorth Caicos- East, North CaicosMichael Eugene Misick
Electoral District NineNorth Caicos- West, North Caicos3) Clarence W. Selver
Electoral District TenThe Bight, ProvidencialesKaren Delancy
Electoral District ElevenBlue Hills, ProvidencialesVaden Delroy Williams
Electoral District TwelveFive Cays, ProvidencialesLillian Robinson Been
Electoral District ThirteenCheshire Hall, ProvidencialesGalmo Williams
Electoral District FourteenLeeward, Providenciales 4) 
Electoral District FifteenWheeland and West caicos
1) including Salt Cay
2) including Big Ambergris Cay and Little Ambergris Cay
3) including Parrot Cay
4) including Pine Cay and Water Cay

An official web site mentions two additional electoral districts on Providenciales, namely Long Bay Hills and Richmond Hill, but without giving district numbers[7]

Turks and Caicos 2012 Electoral Districts

For the November 2012 elections the Electoral District Boundary Commission has delineated 10 Electoral districts:

  1. Grand Turk North - former West Road and Overback
  2. Grand Turk South - former North and South Back Salina, and Salt Cay
  3. South Caicos, East Caicos, Little and Big Ambergris Cays
  4. Middle and North Caicos, and Parrot Cay
  5. Leeward, Providenciales, Pine Cay, Little and Big Water Cays, and East Cays, including Dellis Cay
  6. The Bight, Providenciales
  7. Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill, Providenciales
  8. Blue Hills, Providenciales
  9. Five Cays, Providenciales
  10. Wheeland and North West and North Central, Providenciales, and West Caicos.

On August 14, 2012, Governor Roderic Todd signed into law the Electoral Districts (Boundaries Amendment) Ordinance.[8]

2016 election results by constituency

By the time of the 2016 House of Assembly elections, there were 10 electoral districts ("constituencies") and the results were as follows:

ConstituencyCandidatePartyVotes
1Grand Turk NorthGeorge LightbournePNP305
Derek RollePDM273
Kwame Odinga SmithPDA21
2Grand Turk South and SaltcayEdwin AstwoodPDM399
Arthur LightbournePNP276
Noel Terrence SkippingsPDA66
Valerie JenningsIndependent12
3South CaicosRuth BlackmanPNP146
McAllister Eusene HanchellIndependent97
Keno Shamado ForbesPDM70
Christopher Emanuel HallPDA6
4Middle and North CaicosRalph HiggsPDM262
Mark FulfordPNP201
5Leeward (Providenciales)Akierra MissickPNP376
Ezra Ringo Tyrone TaylorPDM289
Calsada Carolie JohnsonPDA17
6The Bight (Providenciales)Porsha Stubbs-SmithPNP285
George C.D. PrattPDM284
Dozzlie McLom DelancyPDA38
7Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill (Providenciales)Douglas ParnellPDM451
Amanda MisickPNP347
Charles DelancyPDA43
8Blue Hills (Providenciales)Mixmillian Goldray EwingPDM366
Claudine Ewing-PrattPNP267
Ciclyn BeenPDA37
9Five Cays (Providenciales)Sean Rickard AstwoodPDM470
Rachel Marshall TaylorPNP269
Bobbie ChambersPDA15
10Wheeland (Providenciales)Vaden Delroy WilliamsPDM305
Dameko Canez DeanPNP173
Hudson James ParkerIndependent23
All Island District
5 elected at-large
Sharlene Cartwright-RobinsonPDM3,024
Josephine ConnollyPDM3,019
Derek Hugh TaylorPDM2,740
Karen Evadne MalcolmPDM2,725
Washington MisickPNP2,335
Robert A. BeenPDM2314
Rufus EwingPNP2234
John MalcolmPNP2011
Ricardo Don-Hue GardnerPNP1901
Sheba Latrice WilsonPNP1861
Michael MisickIndependent1629
Jasmin WalkinIndependent834
Sabrina Elizebeth GreenIndependent675
Oswald SkippingsPDA549
Clarence Wesley SelverIndependent301
Samuel Iotis HarveyPDA255
Courtney MissickIndependent240
Damian WilsonIndependent206
Shirley Louise Clarke-CalcanoPDA178
Herbert Andrew Swann jr.PDA135
Oscar O’Brien ForbesIndependent67
Source: RTC

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References

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