Guyana
○ Presidential Election
- Seats: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
- Seats: 65
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 2,500
· Number of registered voters: 661,378 (2020 election)
· Voter turnout: 72.58% (2020 parliamentary election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: popular vote as the leader of a party list in parliamentary elections
- National Assembly
1. Directly elected.
2. Closed list proportional representation from a single nationwide 40-seat constituency and 10 sub-national multi-member constituencies with a total of 25 seats.
3. Seats are allocated using the Hare quota.
· Voting process: Verify National ID Card -> Receive Ballots -> Mark Ballots -> Cast Ballots
· Counting process
1. Manual Count in Polling Station: take each ballot out of the box one by one consecutively, and display it to the attending public witnesses.
2. A copy of the Statement of Poll is then displayed outside the polling station.
3. Each Deputy Returning Officer collates all the results using the Statements of Poll for his/her Sub-district and submits them to the Returning Officer.
4. The Returning Officer ascertains the total votes cast in favor of each List of Candidates in his/her district, then reports the results immediately in person to the Chief Elections Officer.