Restrictto Candidacy:
Qualified electors; age: 25 years; Senegalese citizenship; fulfillment of all requirements regarding active military service; naturalized foreigners and women having acquired Senegalese nationality by marriage : after a period of 10 years from the date of their naturalization. Ineligibility: guardianship, conviction preventing registration on electoral list, Governors and their deputies, judges and other senior officials of national services and public institutions, membership of the Economic and Social Council, employment for foreign States or international organizations, executive in a State enterprise, State-assisted company, savings and credit organization or company holding a government contract, Ministers of the Government, members of the armed or police forces on active duty. Requirements: lists must be submitted by political parties, coalitions of parties or independent persons no later than 50 days prior to the election date; lists under the majority system include substitutes whose number is equal to the number of seats available; national lists under the proportional representation system must include 50 substitutes; half of each party's candidates (both for titular members and substitutes) must be women; gender parity is applied to all lists. The gender in lists with candidates and substitutes has to alternate. If there is an odd number of candidates, the number of the less represented gender will be the immediately lesser even number. If only one member in a department is to be elected, the member and the substitute must be of the opposite sex. Independent candidates must obtain the supporting signature of 10,000 voters registered in six regions (at least 500 voters from each region); monetary deposit, reimbursed if the list concerned obtains at least one seat in the National Assembly.
Debate Format:
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Opinion Polls Embargo:
No embargo
Electoral System & Organisation
Elect System Main Election:
Mixed
Main Election Type:
Presidential
Main Election Cycle:
7
Numb Round Main Election:
Two
Referenda_Law:
Constitution 2012, art. 103
Referenda_Binding:
Always Binding
Voting Machine:
None
Vote IDRequired:
ID check compulsory
Polling Card:
Polling card compulsory
Districting Flexibility:
The National Assembly comprises 150 members of whom 90 are elected from multi-member constituencies and the remaining 60 members are elected from a single nationwide constituency.
Election Night Traditions:
Ban of weapons in election offices (article 75 of the Law on Elections). There is a prison sentence for violence on Election Day. There is also a prohibition for selling or buying gasoline in cans or plastic containers from the beginning of the electoral campaign and until results are proclaimed. No specific provision regarding alcohol.
Polling Station
Average Voterby Polling Station:
600
Normal Opening Time Poll Station:
08:00
Normal Closing Time Poll Station:
18:00
Listof Polling Station Buildings:
schools, public buildings
Accessibility Requirement:
Party to UNCRPD
Ballot Box Transparency:
Transparent
Box Feeding System:
Voter
Vote Receipt:
No receipt
Tellersor Party Employees:
over 4,100 Senegalese volunteers, most of whom were deployed throughout the country by civil society.
Count Locallyor Centrally:
locally
Manualor Automatic Count:
manual
Nature Counting Personnel:
Article LO.83 of the Electoral Code states that the votes are counted in the polling stations by the poll workers of the station, representatives of the National Independent Electoral Committee (CENA), representatives of political parties and coalitions of political parties, as well as local citizens authorized to oversee.
Ballot Paper
Ballot Type:
Paper
Singleor Multi Paper Ballot:
Multiple
Ballot Paper Type Description:
Mutiple Ballot Papers for each Candidate with Candidate Name, Photo, Emblem.
Ballot Photos:
Freely Allowed
Orderof Candidatesor Parties:
Non Applicable
Remote Voting
Temporal Remote Voting:
No
Geographical Remote Voting:
No
Personal Remote Voting:
No
Mobile Polling Stations:
No
Special Needs
Provision First Time Voters:
My Card, My Vote, My Future: A 2012 voting pamphlet from Senegal explains that identification cards are needed to vote as well as the importance of voting. Produced by the Programme Gouvernance et Paix au Sénégal.
Provision Illiterate Voters:
Images and Symbols on Ballot Paper
Provision Blind Voters:
Loi No. 2012-01 (2011). Article L80 states: Any electors suffering from a temporary or permanent disability which makes it impossible to introduce the ballot into the envelope or to place the envelope in the ballot box; shall, on request, be entitled to assistance by a voter of their choice or a member of the polling station.
Provision Motor Handicap Voters:
Loi No. 2012-01 (2011). Article L80 states: Any electors suffering from a temporary or permanent disability which makes it impossible to introduce the ballot into the envelope or to place the envelope in the ballot box; shall, on request, be entitled to assistance by a voter of their choice or a member of the polling station.
Targeted Initiatives
Transparency Initiative:
counting of votes is often conducted in the presence of national and international observers.