House of Assembly (Turks and Caicos Islands)

The House of Assembly has 21 members in total. Formerly, 15 members were elected for a four-year term in single-seat constituencies (of which 11 lay in the Caicos Islands and 4 in the Turks Islands), while 3 members sat ex officio, 3 were appointed members and a speaker was chosen from outside the house.

Although the number of elected representatives to the body was not changed during the 2009-12 suspension of self-government, the composition was changed so that ten of the 15 elected representatives are elected to individual districts, while five are now elected at-large.

Following the suspension of self-government in August 2009, the Governor assembled a Consultative Forum for the Turks and Caicos Islands to advise him on legislation relating to the territory. The forum consisted of the Chief Executive, the Attorney-General, the Permanent Secretary for Finance, and eleven to fifteen representatives of the community, appointed by the Governor. The council could make non-binding recommendations to the Governor about bills that were presented to it and on policies that were referred to it.^[2] The chair of the Consultative Forum was Lillian Missick.^[3] The forum disbanded in November 2012 upon the election of a new House of Assembly following restoration of self-government to the islands.

General election results, 2021

Party		District			At-large			Total seats	+/–
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Progressive National Party	3,572	55.29	9	17,105	56.25	5	14	+9
	People's Democratic Movement	2,888	44.71	1	12,127	39.88	0	1	–9
	Progressive Democratic Alliance	–	–	–	89	0.29	0	0	0
	Independents	–	–	–	1,090	3.58	0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes			–	–		–	–	–	–
Total		6,460	100	10	30,411	100	5	15	-
Registered voters/turnout		8,776	73.61	–	43,880	69.30	–	–	–
Source: Elections Department RTC, gov.tc

• List of speakers of the Turks and Caicos Islands House of Assembly