Right Vote Foreign Res:
COMMONWEALTH WITH TWO YEAR RESIDENCY
Registration Type:
Formal registration in office
Registration Basis:
Residence requirement
Registration Flexibility:
16 August of each year
Multiple Registr Allowed:
Only 1 registration allowed at a time
Election Management & Enforcement
Nameof EMB:
Electoral Supervisory Commission
Independent EMB:
No
EMBNominations:
8 members selcted by the President, on advice by Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. Expert based membership.
EMBTenure:
5 years
Who Runs Election:
Election Management Body
Nameof Elect Enforcement Body:
Judicial Committee
Candidacy & Campaign Rules
Restrictto Candidacy:
Age: 18 years, British Commonwealth citizenship, residence in Mauritius for at least two years before the date of nomination (and for six months immediately before that date), ability to speak and read English with a degree of proficiency sufficient to allow for taking an active part in Assembly proceedings. Ineligibilities: allegiance to a State outside the Commonwealth, undischarged bankruptcy, imprisonment exceeding 12 months, electoral offences, undisclosed government contractors. Incompatibilities: public or local government officers, Speaker or Deputy Speaker must not be a Minister. Deposit of approximately US$25, reimbursed if the candidate polls at least 10% of the votes cast.
Debate Format:
/
Electoral System & Organisation
Elect System Main Election:
Plurality
Main Election Type:
General
Main Election Cycle:
5
Numb Round Main Election:
One
Referenda_Law:
C:47 (3) A Bill for an Act of Parliament to alter the provisions of section 1 or 57(2) shall not be passed by the Assembly unless – (a) the proposed Bill has before its introduction in the Assembly been submitted, by referendum, to the electorate of Mauritius and has been approved by the votes of not less than three quarters of the electorate; Source: Constitution: Constitution of the Republic of Mauritius, art. 47(3)
Referenda_Binding:
Alway Binding
Voting Machine:
None
Polling Card:
No polling card
National Holiday Elect Day:
Never
Districting Source:
Other Independent Body
Districting Flexibility:
The Electoral Boundaries Commission delimits and reviews constituencies and their boundaries and proposes changes to the National Assembly. The National Assembly can either accept or decline the suggested changes, but can not alter the Electoral Boundaries Commission's submission (The members appointed are usually the same as those appointed to the Electoral Supervisory Commission). The ... number of inhabitants of each constituency is as nearly equal as is reasonably practicable to the population quota: Provided that the number of inhabitants of a constituency may be greater or less than the population quota in order to take account of means of communication, geographical features, density of population and the boundaries of administrative areas.
Frequency Districting Change:
10
Polling Station
Average Voterby Polling Station:
2956
Normal Opening Time Poll Station:
700
Normal Closing Time Poll Station:
18:00
Polling Station Numbers:
317
Listof Polling Station Buildings:
public buildings
Accessibility Requirement:
Party to UNCRPD. Special rooms for wheelchair acceess. Need to notify pollung station in advance. In Mauritius, disability activists and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) working in the disability sector represented people with disabilities at the National Implementation and Monitoring Committee on the UNCRPD. In Mauritius, disability activists and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) working in the disability sector represented people with disabilities at the National Implementation and Monitoring Committee on the UNCRPD.
Ballot Box Transparency:
Transparent
Box Feeding System:
Voter
Vote Receipt:
No receipt
Count Locallyor Centrally:
locally
Manualor Automatic Count:
manual
Nature Counting Personnel:
Returning Officer
Ballot Paper
Ballot Type:
Paper
Orderof Candidatesor Parties:
alphabetical
Remote Voting
Temporal Remote Voting:
No
Geographical Remote Voting:
No
Personal Remote Voting:
No
Mobile Polling Stations:
No
Special Needs
Provision First Time Voters:
The Presiding Officer gives instructions to the elector as to “how to record a valid vote” once a voter is handed a ballot paper.
Provision Illiterate Voters:
Voting Assistance
Provision Blind Voters:
National Assembly Elections Regulation. Regulation 37, paragraph 1 states: If any elector is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner laid down in these regulations or declares that he is unable to read or understand the symbols, the poll clerk shall, at the request of the elector, and on being so ordered by the presiding officer, and in his presence and that of another election officer, mark the vote of such elector on a ballot paper in the manner directed by such elector, and the ballot paper so marked shall be placed in the ballot box; and the name and number on the register of electors of every elector whose vote is so marked for him, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list to be called the 'list of votes marked by the presiding officer.'
Provision Deaf Voters:
National Assembly Elections Regulation. Regulation 37, paragraph 1 states: If any elector is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner laid down in these regulations or declares that he is unable to read or understand the symbols, the poll clerk shall, at the request of the elector, and on being so ordered by the presiding officer, and in his presence and that of another election officer, mark the vote of such elector on a ballot paper in the manner directed by such elector, and the ballot paper so marked shall be placed in the ballot box; and the name and number on the register of electors of every elector whose vote is so marked for him, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list to be called the 'list of votes marked by the presiding officer.'
Provision Motor Handicap Voters:
National Assembly Elections Regulation. Regulation 37, paragraph 1 states: If any elector is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner laid down in these regulations or declares that he is unable to read or understand the symbols, the poll clerk shall, at the request of the elector, and on being so ordered by the presiding officer, and in his presence and that of another election officer, mark the vote of such elector on a ballot paper in the manner directed by such elector, and the ballot paper so marked shall be placed in the ballot box; and the name and number on the register of electors of every elector whose vote is so marked for him, and the reason why it is so marked, shall be entered on a list to be called the 'list of votes marked by the presiding officer.'