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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Boundary assignment may account for geographical criteria or administrative or historical boundary lines.


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

  • The geographical criterion and administrative, or possibly even historical, boundaries may be taken into consideration.
  • The delimitation process should: be conducted on the basis of clearly identified criteria such as population distribution, community of interest, convenience, geographical features and other natural or administrative boundaries.
  • The drawing of boundaries…may include the use of criteria such as population size and geographical or administrative boundaries.
  • With multi-member constituencies, seats should preferably be redistributed without redefining constituency boundaries, which should, where possible, coincide with administrative boundaries.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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