2019 Cameroonian parliamentary election

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Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Cameroon in 2019. [1] On 15 June 2018, the BBC obtained a letter from Cameroonian President Paul Biya to the leader of the country's senate, apparently seeking to delay the elections until October 2019. [2] On 2 July, the parliament accepted and voted to extend its mandate by twelve months. [3]

Electoral system

The 180 members of the National Assembly are elected from 58 single- and multi-member constituencies based on the departments. [4] In single-member constituencies, first-past-the-post voting is used. In multi-member constituencies, a modified form of closed list proportional representation is used, in which a party receiving over 50% of the vote in a constituency wins all the seats, but if no party receives over 50% of the vote, the party with the most votes is awarded half the seats and any other party receiving over 5% of the vote receives a proportional share of the remaining half of the seats based on the largest remainder method and Hare quota. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Cameroon kicks off busy election year with senatorial polls Africa News, 13 February 2018
  2. ↑ Cameroon seeks to delay elections 3 News 16 June 2018
  3. ↑ Cameroun - Élections législatives : pas de scrutin avant 2019 Le Point Afrique, 4 July 2018
  4. ↑ Electoral system IPU
  5. ↑ Cameroon Election Passport
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