2021 Turks and Caicos Islands general election

2021 Turks and Caicos Islands general election

19 February 2021
15 of the 21 seats in the House of Assembly
First party Second party   Leader Washington Misick Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson Party PNP PDM Last election 5 seats 10 seats Seats won 14 1 Seat change 9 9
Premier before election Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson PDM Elected Premier Washington Misick PNP

General elections were held in the Turks and Caicos Islands on 19 February 2021 to elect members of the House of Assembly.[1] The result was a landslide victory for the Progressive National Party, which won 14 of the 15 seats in the House.

Electoral system

At the time of the election, the House of Assembly has 21 members : 15 elected members, four appointed members and two ex officio members.

The 15 elected members were elected by two methods; ten were elected from single-member constituencies, with five elected on an at-large basis, with voters able to vote for up to five candidates at the national level.[2]

The four appointed members include one nominated by the Premier, one nominated by the Leader of the Opposition and two members appointed by the Governor.[3] In addition, the Attorney General and the Speaker are ex officio members.

Results

Party		District			At-large			Total seats	+/–
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Progressive National Party	3,572	55.29	9	17,111	56.34	5	14	+9
	People's Democratic Movement	2,888	44.71	1	12,082	39.78	0	1	–9
	Progressive Democratic Alliance				89	0.29	0	0	0
	Independents				1,090	3.59	0	0	0
Nominated members								4	0
Ex officio members								2	0
Total		6,460	100.00	10	30,372	100.00	5	21	0
Valid votes		6,460	100.00
Invalid/blank votes		0	0.00
Total votes		6,460	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		8,581	75.28
Source: Elections Department, gov.tc

By constituency

Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes
1	Grand Turk North	Otis Chuck Morris		Progressive National Party	362
		Temard Rudardo Butterfield		People's Democratic Movement	239
2	Grand Turk South and Saltcay	Edwin Astwood		People's Democratic Movement	414
		Leshun Sebastian Missick		Progressive National Party	297
3	South Caicos	John Jamael Malcolm		Progressive National Party	190
		Patrease Thomas		People's Democratic Movement	109
4	Middle and North Caicos	Arlington Alexander Musgrove		Progressive National Party	293
		Ralph Lewis Higgs		People's Democratic Movement	220
5	Leeward (Providenciales)	Akierra Missick		Progressive National Party	460
		Gertrude Forbes		People's Democratic Movement	249
6	The Bight (Providenciales)	Matthew Timothy Stubbs		Progressive National Party	367
		Audric Skippings		People's Democratic Movement	299
7	Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill (Providenciales)	Samuel Ernest Been		Progressive National Party	487
		Douglas Parnell		People's Democratic Movement	411
8	Blue Hills (Providenciales)	Randy Dexter Howell		Progressive National Party	333
		Goldray Ewing		People's Democratic Movement	318
9	Five Cays (Providenciales)	Rachel Marshall Taylor		Progressive National Party	510
		Sean Rickard Astwood		People's Democratic Movement	369
10	Wheeland (Providenciales)	Kyle Knowles		Progressive National Party	273
		Vaden Delroy Williams		People's Democratic Movement	270
All Island District 5 elected at-large
		Washington Misick		Progressive National Party	3,594
		Erwin Jay Saunders		Progressive National Party	3,478
		Josephine Connolly		Progressive National Party	3,464
		Jamell Rayan Robionson		Progressive National Party	3,418
		Shaun David Malcolm		Progressive National Party	3,151
		Robert A. Been		People's Democratic Movement	2,572
		Karen Evadne Malcolm		People's Democratic Movement	2,491
		Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson		People's Democratic Movement	2,470
		Derek Hugh Taylor		People's Democratic Movement	2,352
		Maxovonno Thomas		People's Democratic Movement	2,242
		Jacqueline Almartha Lightbourne		Independent	300
		Courtney Mancur Missick		Independent	280
		George Lightbourne		Independent	162
		Lekensay K.D. Missick		Independent	107
		Winston McLaughlin		Progressive Democratic Alliance	89
		Jermain Richardson Fulford		Independent	85
		Alicia Kaye Swann		Independent	81
		Lucky Shemock Forbes		Independent	75
Source: Elections Department, RTC

References

1. "House Of Assembly". Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
2. Basic election ballot rules released^[usurped] TCI News Now, 3 September 2012
3. House of Assembly Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Government of the Turks & Caicos Islands