Districts of the Turks and Caicos Islands

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.

Nr	Administrative District	Headquarters	Area (km²)	Population[lower-alpha 1]	Electoral Districts
Caicos Islands
1	Providenciales (including West Caicos)	Providenciales	163.6	23,769	6
2	North Caicos	Bottle Creek	144.9	1,443	2
3	Middle Caicos	Conch Bar	144.2	168	1
4	South Caicos (including East Caicos)	Cockburn Harbour	136.8	1,139	2
Turks Islands
5	Grand Turk	Grand Turk	17.6	4,831	4
6	Salt Cay	Salt Cay	9.1	108	-
	Turks and Caicos Islands	Grand Turk	616.3	31,458	15

(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 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[7]

Turks and Caicos 2012 Electoral Districts

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.[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:

Constituency		Candidate		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
4	Middle and North Caicos	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

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Notes

The Islands area and population data retrieved from the 2012 census

References

https://www.gov.tc/
"TCI Physical Characteristics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25. 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 2013-04-19. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
"ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT - TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 2017 REGISTER OF ELECTORS". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
"Nominated Candidates For General Election 2016". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
"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 2013-04-19. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

External links

List of ISO 3166-2 codes in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Census 2012 Data

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[2] The Islands area and population data retrieved from the 2012 census

[1] ttps://www.gov.tc/

[3] "TCI Physical Characteristics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[4] "Electoral Districts of the Turks and Caicos Islands". Caribbean Elections. Retrieved 4 February 2019.

[5] "Governor signs Electoral Districts (Boundaries Amendment) Ordinance into law". 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-04-19. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[6] "ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT - TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 2017 REGISTER OF ELECTORS". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 2019-05-27.

[7] "Nominated Candidates For General Election 2016". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 2019-05-27.

[8] "Salt Cay tourist information". Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

[9] "Governor signs Electoral Districts (Boundaries Amendment) Ordinance into law". 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-04-19. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

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