Districts of the Turks and Caicos Islands
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[edit] 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 (Estimate 2006) |
Electoral Districts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caicos Islands | ||||||||
| 1 | Providenciales and West Caicos | Blue Hills | 163.6 | 22642 | 4 | |||
| 2 | North Caicos | Bottle Creek | 144.9 | 1895 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Middle Caicos | Conch Bar | 144.2 | 468 | 1 | |||
| 4 | South Caicos and East Caicos | Cockburn Harbour | 136.8 | 1579 | 2 | |||
| Turks Islands | ||||||||
| 5 | Grand Turk | Cockburn Town | 17.6 | 5567 | 4 | |||
| 6 | Salt Cay | Balfour Town | 9.1 | 186 | - | |||
| Turks and Caicos Islands | Cockburn Town | 616.3 | 32337 | 13 | ||||
[edit] Electoral Districts
For the legislative council, the Turks and Caicos Islands are divided in to 13 Electoral Districts (four in the Turks Islands and nine 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 or commissioners[2].
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