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Toco/Sangre Grande

Trinidad and Tobago parliamentary constituency

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ134286957 ↗
Source-derived summary

Toco/Sangre Grande is a parliamentary constituency in Trinidad and Tobago.

Geography

The constituency name refers to the village of Toco and the Sangre Grande region in the north east of Trinidad. It was known as Toco/Manzanilla until 2007.

It had an electorate of 30,149 as of 2015.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Toco/Sangre Grande” as trinidad and Tobago parliamentary constituency. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Toco, Sangre and Grande.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Toco, Sangre and Grande providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Toco/Sangre Grande”, the useful work is to connect “trinidad and Tobago parliamentary constituency” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q134286957. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Toco/Sangre Grande” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.