Cuban parliamentary election, 2018

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Parliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 11 March 2018 to elect members of the National Assembly of People's Power, alongside provincial elections. [1] Prior to the elections, President Raúl Castro declared he would not be seeking a new term, and a new President of the Council of State will be elected by the National Assembly. [2] His deputy, Miguel Díaz-Canel, was subsequently elected as the new president.

Cuba Country in the Caribbean

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean meet. It is east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the U.S. state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Haiti and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The area of the Republic of Cuba is 110,860 square kilometres (42,800 sq mi). The island of Cuba is the largest island in Cuba and in the Caribbean, with an area of 105,006 square kilometres (40,543 sq mi), and the second-most populous after Hispaniola, with over 11 million inhabitants.

National Assembly of Peoples Power legislative parliament of Cuba

The National Assembly of People's Power is the legislative parliament of the Republic of Cuba and the supreme body of State power. Its members are elected from multi-member electoral districts for a term of five years. The Assembly's current President is Esteban Lazo Hernández. The assembly meets twice a year. Between sessions it is represented by the 31 members Council of State. The most recent elections were held on 11 March 2018.

Raúl Castro First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician who is currently serving as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the socialist state, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro in April 2011. He has also been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, the highest decision-making body since 1975. In February 2008, he was appointed the President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers. He stepped down as President on 19 April 2018, but remains the first secretary of the Communist Party, holding ultimate power and authority over state and government.

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Electoral system

All Cuban citizens who are over the age of 18 years, and process full political rights for at least five years prior to the election are eligible to partake within the election. [3] 50% of candidates must be nominated by people from the municipality and elected by direct vote in local assemblies, where people decide who they consider to have the qualities to best represent them. [4] The other 50% of candidates are proposed by nominating assemblies which comprise representatives of workers, youth, women, students and farmers as well as members of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. [3] The final list of candidates, which corresponds to the number of seats to be filled, is drawn up by the National Candidature Commission taking into account criteria such as candidates' merit, patriotism, ethical values and revolutionary history. [3]

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, or CDR, are a network of neighborhood committees across Cuba. The organizations, described as the "eyes and ears of the Revolution," exist to promote social welfare and report on counter-revolutionary activity. As of 2010, 8.4 million Cubans of the national population of 11.2 million were registered as CDR members.

Voter requirements are set within article 132 of the Cuban constitution. All voters must be Cuban citizens who have reached the age of 16 years who have not be declared mentally disabled by a court as well as the individual must not have committed a crime. [5] The electoral system is designed to give the winner of the election a majority. To be declared elected, one candidate must obtain more than 50% of the valid votes cast in the constituency in which they are running. If this is not attained, the seat in question remains vacant unless the Council of State decides to hold a second round of voting. [3]

A Council of State is a governmental body in a country, or a subdivision of a country, with a function that varies by jurisdiction. It may be the formal name for the cabinet or it may refer to a non-executives advisory body associated with a head of state. In some countries it also has a function as a supreme administrative court and sometimes regarded as the equivalent of a privy council.

Two-round system voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round

The two-round system is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes, then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting is held.

Results

On 12 March, the Cuba National Election Commission (CNE) released preliminary results. [6] In a press conference, the CNE reported that all 605 candidates had been elected as Deputies to the National Assembly. [6]

OptionVotes%Seats
Full list5,620,71380.44605
Selective vote1,366,32819.56
Invalid/blank votes412,850––
Total7,399,891100605
Registered voters/turnout8,639,98985.65–
Source: Granma

Results by province

ProvinceRegistered
voters		Votes castValid votesBlankInvalidFull listSelective votes
Votes%Votes%Votes%Votes%Votes%Votes%
Pinar del Río452,557406,11989,74379,92093,5523,0065,663,1930,79305,46280,4074,45819,60
Artemisa393,143350,06389,04324,55992,7118,9075,406,5971,88255,54378,7469,01621,26
La Habana1,685,6511,339,33579,461,249,38193,2859,7864,4630,1682,25927,03174,20322,35025,80
Mayabeque296,126268,50590,67250,36293,2412,7754,765,3682,00204,51181,6945,85118,31
Matanzas561,179475,33184,70451,22294,9317,9203,776,1891,30346,46176,78104,76123,22
Villa Clara611,358534,31087,40501,25193,8125,8394,847,2201,35411,10382,0290,14817,98
Cienfuegos311,355267,99986,08248,23592,6315,1995,674,5651,70190,96576,9357,27023,07
Sancti Spíritus366,885327,04789,14310,41194,9113,4184,103,2180,98257,33782,9053,07417,10
Ciego de Ávila337,785287,98885,26272,96894,7812,1304,212,8901,00218,87380,1854,09519,82
Camagüey591,944504,25885,19481,60095,5117,9893,574,6690,93375,61877,99105,98222,01
Las Tunas404,948353,65487,33337,53695,4413,4303,802,6880,76283,17483,8954,36216,11
Holguín785,047668,63685,17625,98393,6236,0995,406,5540,98529,37984,5796,60415,43
Granma629,155555,39988,28529,38195,3221,6803,904,3380,78461,48787,1767,89412,83
Santiago de Cuba781,000683,46287,51660,47396,6419,9662,923,0230,44554,64283,98105,83116,02
Guantánamo368,864321,15587,07309,83496,479,5592,981,7620,55256,74882,8753,08617,13
Isla de la Juventud62,99256,63089,9053,92595,222,2533,984520,8042,37978,5911,54621,41
Total8,639,9897,399,89185.656,987,04194.42319,9564.3292,8941.265,620,71380.441,366,32819.56
Source: Granma [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cuba avanza en calendario electoral este 2018". Telesur. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Castro to stand down in 2018" . Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Union, Inter-Parliamentary. "IPU PARLINE database: CUBA (Asamblea nacional del Poder popular), Electoral system". archive.ipu.org. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  4. ↑ cg-RT, teleSUR /. "This is How Cubans Run, Campaign and Vote in Elections" . Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  5. ↑ "Cuban Constitution" (PDF).
  6. 1 2 Redacción Digital (2018-03-12). "National Electoral Commission releases preliminary data › Cuba › Granma - Official voice of the PCC". En.granma.cu. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  7. ↑ "El voto de Cuba socialista" (PDF). Granma (in Spanish). 19 March 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
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