Section 8: Voting at ordinary elections
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
8. Voting at ordinary elections
(1) Each person entitled to vote at an ordinary election in any of the local
regions of Rodrigues shall have 3 votes comprising 2 local region votes and
one Island region vote.
(2) The local region votes shall be given for 2 candidates to be members
for the local region.
(3) The Island region vote shall be given for a registered political party
having submitted a list of candidates for election as Regional Assembly
members for the Island region.
(4) The 2 Regional Assembly members for each local region shall be returned under the simple majority system.
(5) The members for the Island region shall be returned under the system
of proportional representation in accordance with sections 10 and 11.
(6) The persons who are to be returned as members for each of the local
regions shall be elected before it is determined who are to be returned as
members for the Island region.
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(7) At an ordinary election, no person shall be a candidate in more than
one local region.
(8) (a) Each registered party presenting more than 2 candidates at an
ordinary election shall ensure that not more than two-thirds of the number of
candidates of that party in the 6 local regions are of the same sex.
(b) Where a registered party forms part of an alliance, it shall be sufficient for the alliance to comply with paragraph (a) without each party forming part of the alliance necessarily complying with that paragraph.
[S. 8 amended by s. 6 of Act 29 of 2016 w.e.f. 28 December 2016.]