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Ragged Island — District council — direct election

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Ragged Island — District council — direct election
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Bahamas · Family Islands / Grand Bahama

Ragged Island — District council — direct election

The Local Government Act 2024 section 43(1) sets ordinary direct polling for 16 June 2027. All 33 scheduled district councils are registered: 20 directly elected and 13 formed through town committees. Individual town committees, 2025/2022/2017 histories and revised polling-division boundaries remain missing.

Election expectation2027-06-16
Imported event records0
Usable vote comparison cycles0 of 3
Seat comparison cycles0 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

Statutory direct vote: third Wednesday of June 2027, calculated as 16 June. Later amendments, orders and the 2026 parliamentary polling-division redistribution require boundary reconciliation. 2025/2022/2017 returns remain missing.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record BS-D-RAGGED-ISLAND.