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]
| Nr | Administrative District[2] |
Headquarters | Area (km2) | Population[a] | Electoral Districts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caicos Islands | |||||
| 1 | Providenciales (including West Caicos) | Blue Hills | 163.6 | 33,293 | 6 |
| 2 | North Caicos | Bottle Creek | 144.9 | 2,156 | 2 |
| 3 | Middle Caicos | Conch Bar | 144.2 | 522 | 1 |
| 4 | South Caicos (including East Caicos) | Cockburn Harbour | 136.8 | 2,063 | 2 |
| Turks Islands | |||||
| 5 | Grand Turk | Cockburn Town | 17.6 | 4,831 | 4 |
| 6 | Salt Cay | Balfour Town | 9.1 | 108 | - |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | Cockburn Town | 616.2 | 42,973 | 15 | |
(the area figures were determined from information in "TCI Physical Characteristics")[3]
Electoral Districts
editFor 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):[4][5][6][7]
| Electoral District | Official Description | Representative as of 2004-10-13 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turks Islands | ||||||||
| Electoral District One | West Road, Grand Turk | Dwayne Taylor | ||||||
| Electoral District Two | Overback, Grand Turk | Floyd Basil Hall | ||||||
| Electoral District Three | Backsalina-North, Grand Turk | Oswald O. Skippings | ||||||
| Electoral District Four | Backsalina-South, Grand Turk1) | Derek Hugh Taylor | ||||||
| Caicos Islands | ||||||||
| Electoral District Five | South Caicos South, South Caicos2) | McAllister Eugene Hanchell | ||||||
| Electoral District Six | South Caicos North, South Caicos | Norman B. Saunders | ||||||
| Electoral District Seven | Middle Caicos | Jeffrey Christoval Hall | ||||||
| Electoral District Eight | North Caicos- East, North Caicos | Michael Eugene Misick | ||||||
| Electoral District Nine | North Caicos- West, North Caicos3) | Clarence W. Selver | ||||||
| Electoral District Ten | The Bight, Providenciales | Karen Delancy | ||||||
| Electoral District Eleven | Blue Hills, Providenciales | Vaden Delroy Williams | ||||||
| Electoral District Twelve | Five Cays, Providenciales | Lillian Robinson Been | ||||||
| Electoral District Thirteen | Cheshire Hall, Providenciales | Galmo Williams | ||||||
| Electoral District Fourteen | Leeward, Providenciales 4) | |||||||
| Electoral District Fifteen | Wheeland 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[8]
For the November 2012 elections the Electoral District Boundary Commission has delineated 10 Electoral districts:
- Grand Turk North - former West Road and Overback
- Grand Turk South - former North and South Back Salina, and Salt Cay
- South Caicos, East Caicos, Little and Big Ambergris Cays
- Middle and North Caicos, and Parrot Cay
- Leeward, Providenciales, Pine Cay, Little and Big Water Cays, and East Cays, including Dellis Cay
- The Bight, Providenciales
- Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill, Providenciales
- Blue Hills, Providenciales
- Five Cays, Providenciales
- 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.[9]
2016 election results by constituency
editBy the time of the 2016 House of Assembly elections, there were 10 electoral districts ("constituencies") and the results were as follows:
| Constituency | Candidate | Party | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Turk North | George Lightbourne | PNP | 305 | |
| Derek Rolle | PDM | 273 | |||
| Kwame Odinga Smith | PDA | 21 | |||
| 2 | Grand Turk South and Saltcay | Edwin Astwood | PDM | 399 | |
| Arthur Lightbourne | PNP | 276 | |||
| Noel Terrence Skippings | PDA | 66 | |||
| Valerie Jennings | Independent | 12 | |||
| 3 | South Caicos | Ruth Blackman | PNP | 146 | |
| McAllister Eusene Hanchell | Independent | 97 | |||
| Keno Shamado Forbes | PDM | 70 | |||
| Christopher Emanuel Hall | PDA | 6 | |||
| 4 | Middle and North Caicos | Ralph Higgs | PDM | 262 | |
| Mark Fulford | PNP | 201 | |||
| 5 | Leeward (Providenciales) | Akierra Missick | PNP | 376 | |
| Ezra Ringo Tyrone Taylor | PDM | 289 | |||
| Calsada Carolie Johnson | PDA | 17 | |||
| 6 | The Bight (Providenciales) | Porsha Stubbs-Smith | PNP | 285 | |
| George C.D. Pratt | PDM | 284 | |||
| Dozzlie McLom Delancy | PDA | 38 | |||
| 7 | Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill (Providenciales) | Douglas Parnell | PDM | 451 | |
| Amanda Misick | PNP | 347 | |||
| Charles Delancy | PDA | 43 | |||
| 8 | Blue Hills (Providenciales) | Mixmillian Goldray Ewing | PDM | 366 | |
| Claudine Ewing-Pratt | PNP | 267 | |||
| Ciclyn Been | PDA | 37 | |||
| 9 | Five Cays (Providenciales) | Sean Rickard Astwood | PDM | 470 | |
| Rachel Marshall Taylor | PNP | 269 | |||
| Bobbie Chambers | PDA | 15 | |||
| 10 | Wheeland (Providenciales) | Vaden Delroy Williams | PDM | 305 | |
| Dameko Canez Dean | PNP | 173 | |||
| Hudson James Parker | Independent | 23 | |||
| All Island District 5 elected at-large | |||||
| Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson | PDM | 3,024 | |||
| Josephine Connolly | PDM | 3,019 | |||
| Derek Hugh Taylor | PDM | 2,740 | |||
| Karen Evadne Malcolm | PDM | 2,725 | |||
| Washington Misick | PNP | 2,335 | |||
| Robert A. Been | PDM | 2314 | |||
| Rufus Ewing | PNP | 2234 | |||
| John Malcolm | PNP | 2011 | |||
| Ricardo Don-Hue Gardner | PNP | 1901 | |||
| Sheba Latrice Wilson | PNP | 1861 | |||
| Michael Misick | Independent | 1629 | |||
| Jasmin Walkin | Independent | 834 | |||
| Sabrina Elizebeth Green | Independent | 675 | |||
| Oswald Skippings | PDA | 549 | |||
| Clarence Wesley Selver | Independent | 301 | |||
| Samuel Iotis Harvey | PDA | 255 | |||
| Courtney Missick | Independent | 240 | |||
| Damian Wilson | Independent | 206 | |||
| Shirley Louise Clarke-Calcano | PDA | 178 | |||
| Herbert Andrew Swann jr. | PDA | 135 | |||
| Oscar O’Brien Forbes | Independent | 67 | |||
| Source: RTC | |||||
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ The Islands area and population data retrieved from the 2012 census
References
edit- ^ https://www.gov.tc/
- ^ Geo-Ref.net
- ^ "TCI Physical Characteristics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Electoral Districts of the Turks and Caicos Islands". Caribbean Elections. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Governor signs Electoral Districts (Boundaries Amendment) Ordinance into law". 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT - TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 2017 REGISTER OF ELECTORS". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ "Nominated Candidates For General Election 2016". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ "Salt Cay tourist information". Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Governor signs Electoral Districts (Boundaries Amendment) Ordinance into law". 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
External links
edit- List of ISO 3166-2 codes in the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Census 2012 Data Archived 13 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine