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 | Electoral Districts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caicos Islands | ||||||
| 1 | Providenciales (including West Caicos) | Blue Hills | 163.6 | 33,293 | 6 | |
| 2 | Bottle Creek | 144.9 | 2,156 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Conch Bar | 144.2 | 522 | 1 | ||
| 4 | South Caicos (including East Caicos) | 136.8 | 2,063 | 2 | ||
| Turks Islands | ||||||
| 5 | 17.6 | 4,831 | 4 | |||
| 6 | Balfour Town | 9.1 | 108 | - | ||
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 616.2 | 42,973 | 15 | |||
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]
For the November 2012 elections the Electoral District Boundary Commission has delineated 10 Electoral districts:
On August 14, 2012, Governor Roderic Todd signed into law the Electoral Districts (Boundaries Amendment) Ordinance.[9]
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 | |||
| align=left colspan=6 | Source: RTC | ||||