Burkina Faso
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Parliamentary(unicameral)
- Seats: 127
- Term of office: 5 years
· Local government
- Seats: 20,000
- Term of office: 14 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 889
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 6 am and 6 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 5,893,406 (2020 election)
· Voter turnout: 50.79% (2020 presidential election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: two round system, simple majority
- Parliamentary: proportional representation using the ‘greatest remainder’ electoral quotient system
- Local elections: municipal councilors are elected based on proportional representation using the largest remainder allocation method
· Voting process
· Counting process
1. The ballot box is opened and the number of ballots inside is verified
2. The members of the polling station count the votes
3. The president announces the final results of the polling station and they are immediately posted
4. Once all the results arrive at the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), they are automatically compiled by a computer for the announcements of provisional results
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: 8 days are given to appeal results.