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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Issue

Criteria for Boundary Appointment


Election Parts

  • Electoral System and Boundary Delimitation

Criteria

  • Each vote was of equal weight
  • The apportionment criteria were publicly available and included details such as the number of residents, number of registered voters, number of actual voters, or a combination thereof
  • Where variances occurred between the number of voters in various constituencies, they were small
Summaries
  • Elections must be held by equal suffrage.
  • The electoral system should endeavor to ensure equal suffrage by according each voter and vote equal weight.
  • The process of boundary delimitation should respect equal suffrage.
  • Equal suffrage is best achieved by assigning the same number of voters to each representative.
  • Equal suffrage may be achieved through boundary assignment based on a specific apportionment criterion, which may consider the number of residents, number of resident nationals (including minors), number of registered voters, number of actual voters, or a combination thereof.
  • While true equality in delimitation may not always be possible, variances should rarely exceed 10 percent.
  • Boundary assignment may account for geographical criteria or administrative or historical boundary lines.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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