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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

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.


Obligations

  • Equal Suffrage

Election Parts

  • Electoral System and Boundary Delimitation

Issues

  • Criteria for Boundary Appointment

Criteria

  • 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

Quotes

  • Equal voting power: seats must be evenly distributed between the constituencies.It entails a clear and balanced distribution of seats among constituencies on the basis of one of the following allocation criteria: population, number of resident nationals (including minors), number of registered voters, and possibly the number of people actually voting. An appropriate combination of these criteria may be envisaged.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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