Ethiopia
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Council of People’s Representatives
- Seats: 550
- Term of office: 5 years
· Council of the Federation
- Seats: 117
- Term of office: 5 years
· Local government
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 50,000
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 6 am and 6 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 36,851,461 (2015 election)
· Voter turnout: 70.09% (2015 parliamentary elections)
· Voting age: 18
· Election system: First-Past-the-Post
· Voting process: Verify Voter Card -> Receive Ballots -> Mark Ballots -> Cast Ballots
· Counting process: Take each ballot out of the box one by one consecutively, and display it to the attending public witnesses.
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: Around 1 month