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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

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Home » Resources » Electoral Systems in the Caribbean

ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IN THE CARIBBEAN

The electoral system used in Barbados for election to the House of Assembly is the single member constituency with simple majority, also known as the first-past-the-post system.

Here is a list of the electoral systems used by other Caribbean states.

Country	Electoral System	Type	Number of reps.
Antigua and Barbuda	first-past-the-post	plurality	17
Aruba (Netherlands)	first-past-the-post	plurality	21
Bahamas	first-past-the-post	plurality	49
Barbados	first-past-the-post	plurality	30
Belize	first-past-the-post	plurality	29
Bermuda	block	plurality	40
Cayman Islands	first-past-the-post	plurality	19
Cuba	two-round system	majority	589
Dominica	first-past-the-post	plurality	31
Dominican Republic	party list	proportional	120
Grenada	first-past-the-post	plurality	15
Guadeloupe (France)	two-round system	majority	42
Guyana	party list	proportional	53
Haiti	two-round system	majority	83
Jamaica	first-past-the-post	plurality	60
Martinique (France)	two-round system	majority	45
Montserrat	first-past-the-post	plurality	7
Netherlands Antilles	party list	proportional	27
Puerto Rico (USA)	first-past-the-post	plurality	53
St. Kitts and Nevis	first-past-the-post	plurality	11
St. Lucia	first-past-the-post	plurality	17
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	first-past-the-post	plurality	15
Suriname	party list	proportional	51
Trinidad and Tobago	first-past-the-post	plurality	36
Turks and Caicos Islands	first-past-the-post	plurality	13
Virgin Islands (UK)	first-past-the-post	plurality	9
Virgin Islands (USA)	block	plurality	15

source: http://worldpolicy.org/globalrights/democracy/types.html