Barbados is a unitary parliamentary republic. The country has been a republic since 2021, having been a constitutional (parliamentary) monarchy before that.
The lower house of its bicameral parliament ('House of Assembly') is directly elected, with electoral system inherited from the British, by first-preference plurality (FPP, aka first-past-the-post, FPTP) in single-member (single-seat) districts. The relavance of tactical voting is therefore very high and the results are highly disproportional: the system has produced a completely one-party parlament (0 opposition members) on several occasions.
This is the description of the electoral system of Barbados as of 2026.04.23 on Electoral Knowledgebase. Sources and further information on this topic: