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[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

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):^[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]

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.^[9]

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	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

• ISO 3166-2 Subdivision codes for the Turks and Caicos Islands

Notes

1. The Islands area and population data retrieved from the 2012 census

References

1. https://www.gov.tc/
2. Geo-Ref.net
3. "TCI Physical Characteristics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2011. 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 19 April 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
6. "ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT - TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 2017 REGISTER OF ELECTORS". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
7. "Nominated Candidates For General Election 2016". www.gov.tc. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
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 19 April 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

External links

• List of ISO 3166-2 codes in the Turks and Caicos Islands
• Census 2012 Data Archived 13 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine