Bahamas
○ General Election
· Prime Minister
- Seat: 1
○ Parliamentary Elections
· House of Assembly
- Seats: 38
- Term of office: 5 years
· Senate
- Seats: 16
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 499
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 6 am and 4 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 184,000 (2017 elections)
· Voter turnout: 86.91% (2017 general election)
· Voting age: 18
- Prime Minister: appointed by the governor-general
- House of Assembly: elected in single-member constituencies by plurality vote
- Senate: 16 members appointed by the Governor-General
· Voting process:
1. Voting ( Verify National ID Card -> Receive Ballots -> Mark Ballots -> Cast Ballots )
2. Vote Counting
· Counting process:
1. Count the regular and protest ballots: declares the result of the count in the presence of the candidates or their election agents as well as observers.
2. All the votes in a given constituency are recounted the following day in the presence of candidates and election agents.
3. The official declaration of results in each constituency is then published.
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: Preliminary results are announced the night of elections