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Caribbean Electoral Systems

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

Country	Electoral System	Type	Number of Reps.
Anguilla	first-past-the-post	plurality	11
Antigua and Barbuda	first-past-the-post	plurality	17
Aruba	first-past-the-post	plurality	21
The Bahamas	first-past-the-post	plurality	38
Barbados	first-past-the-post	plurality	30
Belize	first-past-the-post	plurality	29
Bermuda	block	plurality	40
British Virgin Islands	first-past-the-post	plurality	9
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	two-round system	majority	42
Guyana	party list	proportional	53
Haiti	two-round system	majority	83
Jamaica	first-past-the-post	plurality	63
Martinique	two-round system	majority	45
Montserrat	first-past-the-post	plurality	7
Netherlands Antilles	party list	proportional	27
Puerto Rico	first-past-the-post	plurality	53
Saint Kitts and Nevis	first-past-the-post	plurality	11
Saint Lucia	first-past-the-post	plurality	17
Saint 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
United States Virgin Islands	block	plurality	15

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Some of this material has been adapted from the U.S. Department of State publication, Principles of Democracy.

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