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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

While true equality in delimitation may not always be possible, variances should rarely exceed 10 percent.


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
  • Where variances occurred between the number of voters in various constituencies, they were small

Quotes

  • The permissble departure from the norm [of equal seat distribution] should not be more than 10%, and should certainly not exceed 15% except in special circumstances (protection of a concentrated minority, sparsely populated administrative entity).
  • Deviation from uniform populations in electoral units should be kept to a minimum;
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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