Volume 128, Issue 13A
Royal Gazette
4 March 2554
Any province which can only elect not more than one Member of the House of Representatives shall be deemed to be a constituency, and any province which can elect more than one Member of the House of Representatives shall be divided into constituencies in the number corresponding to the number of the Members of the House of Representatives that it should have, with each constituency being able have one Member of the House of Representatives. And in the case that any province is divided into more than one constituency, the areas of the constituencies must be divided in such a manner that makes them adjoin each other and the number of the people in one constituency must be close to that in another.
The votes shall be counted at the voting stations, and the results of the counting of votes by the voting stations shall be sent to the constituency for summing up before being announced publicly at a single place at the constituency as designated by the Election Commission only, save where there is necessity specific to a locality, [in which case] the Election Commission may designate the counting of votes, the summing up of votes, and the announcement of the results of the counting of votes to be done otherwise, subject to the provisions of the Organic Act on Election of Members of the House of Representatives and Procurement of Senators.
Section95.In electing Members of the House of Representatives on a party-list basis, the persons having the right to vote shall have the right to vote for lists of candidates produced by political parties, in respect of which the persons having the right to vote shall have the right to vote for only one of the lists and the Country shall be deemed to be the constituency.
Section96.The lists of candidates according to section 95 shall be produced by political parties, one by each party, with each list containing not more than one hundred and twenty-five candidates, and [the lists] shall be filed with the Election Commission before the day of opening the recruitment of candidates in an election of Members on a party-list basis.
After any political party has filed a list of candidates, if it appears that, before or on the election day, there occurs any cause by which the number of party-list candidates of the political party is reduced from the number on the list filed by such political party, the list of that political party shall be deemed to only contain the existing candidates and, in such case, the House of Representatives shall be deemed to only contain the existing Members of the House of Representatives.
Section97.A political party shall produce a list of candidates for an election of Members of the House of Representatives on a party-list basis in the following manners:
(1)the list of candidates must fairly contain names of candidates from all regions, and regard must be had to opportunities, suitable proportion, and equality between women and men;
