Districts of the Turks and Caicos Islands: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 18:29, 9 September 2012

Administrative Districts

The Turks and Caicos Islands are divided into six administrative districts (two in the Turks Islands and four in the Caicos Islands), headed by District Commissioners (the area figures were determined by information in

[1]):

No.	Administrative District	Capital	Area (km²)	Population (Census 2012 prelim.)	Electoral Districts
Caicos Islands
1	Providenciales and West Caicos	Blue Hills	163.6	23,769	6
2	North Caicos	Bottle Creek	144.9	1,443	1
3	Middle Caicos	Conch Bar	144.2	168	-
4	South Caicos and East Caicos	Cockburn Harbour	136.8	1,139	1
Turks Islands
5	Grand Turk	Cockburn Town	17.6	4,831	2
6	Salt Cay	Balfour Town	9.1	108	-
	Turks and Caicos Islands	Cockburn Town	616.3	31,458	10

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):

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, Providenciales⁴⁾	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
¹⁾including Salt Cay
²⁾including Big Ambregris 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 [2].

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.[3]

External links

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

@@ Line 15: / Line 15: @@
 | align="right" | 1 || [[Providenciales]] and [[West Caicos]] || Blue Hills || align="right" | 163.6 || align="right" | 23,769|| align="right" | 6
 |-style="background: #FFF;"
-| align="right" | 2 || [[North Caicos]] || Bottle Creek || align="right" | 144.9 || align="right" | 1,443|| align="right" | 2
+| align="right" | 2 || [[North Caicos]] || Bottle Creek || align="right" | 144.9 || align="right" | 1,443|| align="right" | 1
 |-style="background: #FFF;"
-| align="right" | 3 || [[Middle Caicos]] || Conch Bar || align="right" | 144.2 || align="right" | 168|| align="right" | 1
+| align="right" | 3 || [[Middle Caicos]] || Conch Bar || align="right" | 144.2 || align="right" | 168|| align="right" | -
 |-style="background: #FFF;"
-| align="right" | 4 || [[South Caicos]] and [[East Caicos]] || [[Cockburn Harbour]] || align="right" | 136.8 || align="right" | 1,139|| align="right" | 2
+| align="right" | 4 || [[South Caicos]] and [[East Caicos]] || [[Cockburn Harbour]] || align="right" | 136.8 || align="right" | 1,139|| align="right" | 1
 |-style="background: #EEE;"
 | colspan="9" align="center" | '''Turks Islands'''
 |-style="background: #FFF;"
-| align="right" | 5 || [[Grand Turk Island|Grand Turk]] || [[Cockburn Town]] || align="right" | 17.6 || align="right" | 4,831|| align="right" | 4
+| align="right" | 5 || [[Grand Turk Island|Grand Turk]] || [[Cockburn Town]] || align="right" | 17.6 || align="right" | 4,831|| align="right" | 2
 |-style="background: #FFF;"
 | align="right" | 6 || [[Salt Cay, Turks Islands|Salt Cay]] || Balfour Town || align="right" | 9.1 || align="right" | 108|| align="right" | -
 |-style="background: #CCC;"
-| | || | '''[[Turks and Caicos Islands]]''' ||  | Cockburn Town ||  align="right" | 616.3 ||  align="right" | 31,458|| align="right" | 15
+| | || | '''[[Turks and Caicos Islands]]''' ||  | Cockburn Town ||  align="right" | 616.3 ||  align="right" | 31,458|| align="right" | 10
 |}