Trinidad and Tobago Parliament constituencies

The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament currently has 41 Parliamentary constituencies across the constituent islands, each electing a single Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Representatives by the plurality (first past the post) system of election, ordinarily every five years. Voting last took place in all 41 of those constituencies at the Trinidad and Tobago general election on 7 September 2015, and these results have been counted and verified.

Map of the constituencies of Trinidad and Tobago, as of 2010.

The number of seats rose from 36[1] at the 2007 general election after proposals made by the Elections and Boundary Commission were adopted through statutory instruments. Constituencies in Tobago remained unchanged.

Parliamentary constituencies in the Trinidad and Tobago

The current members of Parliament are listed below based on the results of the 2015 General elections:

No.	Constituency	Number of Polling Divisions (2015)[2]	Electorate (2015)[2]
1	Arima	40	25,555
2	Arouca/Maloney	24	26,320
3	Barataria/San Juan	41	25,530
4	Caroni Central	33	27,884
5	Caroni East	26	27,602
6	Chaguanas East	32	25,487
7	Chaguanas West	30	27,703
8	Couva North	39	29,284
9	Couva South	41	28,499
10	Cumuto/Manzanilla	51	28,152
11	D'Abadie/O'Meara	32	29,074
12	Diego Martin Central	42	29,350
13	Diego Martin North/East	42	28,067
14	Diego Martin West	48	29,348
15	Fyzabad	39	27,022
16	La Brea	38	25,197
17	La Horquetta/Talparo	29	26,026
18	Laventille East/Morvant	37	27,809
19	Laventille West	27	26,451
20	Lopinot/Bon Air West	29	26,563
21	Mayaro	45	27,940
22	Naparima	42	26,526
23	Oropouche East	20	27,298
24	Oropouche West	28	24,347
25	Point Fortin	48	25,505
26	Pointe-à-Pierre	31	24,577
27	Port of Spain North/St. Ann's West	59	24,122
28	Port of Spain South	64	23,777
29	Princes Town	34	26,473
30	Moruga/Tableland	35	27,913
31	San Fernando East	45	24,968
32	San Fernando West	57	24,492
33	Siparia	27	27,920
34	St. Ann's East	27	28,446
35	St. Augustine	40	27,223
36	St. Joseph	43	27,651
37	Tabaquite	38	28,216
38	Tobago East	32	21,980
39	Tobago West	35	26,150
40	Toco/Sangre Grande	41	30,148
41	Tunapuna	36	26,650
Total		1547	1,099,245

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