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'{{Infobox legislature | name = House of Assembly | native_name = | native_name_lang = | transcription_name = | legislature = | coa_pic = | coa_res = 110px | coa_alt = | foundation = | house_type = Unicameral | body = | houses = | leader1_type = [[List of speakers of the Turks and Caicos Islands House of Assembly|Speaker]] | leader1 = Gordon Burton | party1 = [[Progressive National Party (Turks and Caicos Islands)|PNP]] | election1 = 5 March 2021 | leader2_type = [[Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands|Premier]] | leader2 = [[Washington Misick]], [[Progressive National Party (Turks and Caicos Islands)|PNP]] | party2 = [[People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands)|PDM]] | election2 = | leader3_type = [[Leader of the Opposition]] | leader3 = [[Edwin Astwood]], [[People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands)|PDM]] | party3 = | election3 = | members = '''21'''<br />15 elected members<br />4 appointed<br />2 [[Ex officio member|ex officio]] | house1 = | house2 = | structure1 = Îles Turques-et-Caïques Assemblée 2021.svg | structure1_res = 250px | structure1_alt = | structure2 = | structure2_res = | structure2_alt = | political_groups1 = '''Government (14)''' * {{Color box|#FFDD02|border=silver}} [[Progressive National Party (Turks and Caicos Islands)|PNP]] (14) '''Opposition (1)''' * {{Color box|#124D87|border=silver}} [[People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands)|PDM]] (1) '''Others (5)''' * {{colorbox|#000000|border=silver}} Appointees (4) * {{colorbox|#FFFFFF|border=silver}} [[Ex officio member|Ex officio]] (2) | political_groups2 = | committees1 = | committees2 = | joint_committees = | voting_system1 = | voting_system2 = | last_election1 = [[2021 Turks and Caicos Islands general election|19 February 2021]] | last_election2 = | previous_election1 = | previous_election2 = | next_election1 = [[2026 Turks and Caicos Islands general election|2026]] | session_room = | session_res = 250px | session_alt = | meeting_place = [[Cockburn Town]], [[Turks and Caicos Islands]] | website = | footnotes = | motto = }} {{Politics of Turks and Caicos}} The '''House of Assembly''' is the [[legislature]] of the [[British Overseas Territory]] of the [[Turks and Caicos Islands]]. The name of the house was changed from the '''Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands''' to its present name following the implementation of the new constitution on 9 August 2006. In August 2009, the United Kingdom suspended the Turks and Caicos' self-government after allegations of ministerial corruption. The prerogative of the ministerial government and the House of Assembly were vested in the islands' governor until a [[Turks and Caicos Islands general election, 2012|general election]] was held in November 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-turkscaicos-idUSTRE57D3TE20090814 |title=Britain suspends Turks and Caicos government |access-date=2021-12-14 }}</ref> ==Composition== The House of Assembly has 21 members in total. Formerly, 15 members were elected for a four-year term in single-seat [[constituency|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]]. ==Consultative Forum (2009-2012)== 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 of the Turks and Caicos Islands|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.tc/portal/page/portal/G2G/CabinetDepartments/Consultative%20Forum |title=Archived copy |website=www.gov.tc |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419070157/http://www.gov.tc/portal/page/portal/G2G/CabinetDepartments/Consultative%20Forum |archive-date=19 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The chair of the Consultative Forum was Lillian Missick.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukota.org/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-02-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006112445/http://ukota.org/ |archive-date=2016-10-06 }}</ref> The forum disbanded in November 2012 upon the election of a new House of Assembly following restoration of self-government to the islands. ==Election results== '''General election results, 2021''' {| class=wikitable style=text-align:right |- |align=center colspan=15|[[File:Îles_Turques-et-Caïques_Assemblée_2021.svg]] |- !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !colspan=3|District !colspan=3|At-large !rowspan=2|Total<br />seats !rowspan=2|+/– |- !Votes !% !Seats !Votes !% !Seats |- |bgcolor={{party color|Progressive National Party (Turks and Caicos Islands)}}| ||align=left|[[Progressive National Party (Turks and Caicos Islands)|Progressive National Party]]||3,572||55.29||9||17,105||56.25||5||14||+9 |- |bgcolor={{party color|People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands)}}| ||align=left|[[People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands)|People's Democratic Movement]]||2,888||44.71||1||12,127||39.88||0||1||–9 |- |bgcolor=#009B4D| ||align=left|Progressive Democratic Alliance||–||–||–||89||0.29||0||0||0 |- |bgcolor={{party color|Independent (politician)}}| ||align=left|Independents||–||–||–||1,090||3.58||0||0||0 |- |align=left colspan=2|Invalid/blank votes|| ||–||–|| ||–||–||–||– |- |align=left colspan=2|'''Total'''||'''6,460'''||'''100'''||'''10'''||'''30,411'''||'''100'''||'''5'''||'''15'''||- |- |align=left colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout|| 8,776|| 73.61||–|| 43,880|| 69.30||–||–||– |- |align=left colspan=10|Source: [https://gov.tc/elections Elections Department] [https://www.rtc89fm.com/vote-2021.html RTC], [https://www.gov.tc/stats/statistics/economic/42-elections gov.tc] |} ==See also== *[[List of speakers of the Turks and Caicos Islands House of Assembly]] ==References== {{reflist|30em}} {{Turks and Caicos topics}} {{UK legislatures}} {{Legislatures of the Americas}} {{National unicameral legislatures}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Turks And Caicos Islands House Of Assembly}} [[Category:House of Assembly (Turks and Caicos Islands)| ]] [[Category:Legislatures of British Overseas Territories]] [[Category:Politics of the Turks and Caicos Islands]] [[Category:Unicameral legislatures|Turks and Caicos Islands]] {{legislature-stub}} {{TurksCaicos-stub}}'