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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.
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.
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| 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 | |||||||||
| Constituency | Candidate | Party | Votes | ||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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