Mali
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Parliamentary
- Seats: 147
- Term of office: 5 years
· Local government (high council of territorial authorities)
- Seats: 75
- Term of office: 5 years
· Municipal counselors
- Seats: 10,777
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 23,000
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 8 am and 6 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 8,000,462 (2018 elections)
· Voter turnout: 42.70% (2018 presidential election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: Direct election, absolute majority in two-round system
- Parliamentary
1. Two-ballot majority poll within the circles and municipalities of Bamako District.
2. No candidate can win at the first round of the ballot if no one received the absolute majority of voters cast. In this case, the second round must take place within 21 day following the first round date.
- High Council of Territorial Authorities: A college that is composed of municipal councilor’s incumbents in the regions or district of Bamako.
- Municipal Counselors:
1. A system of party lists of candidates elected proportionally without the possibility of mixing lists or casting preferential votes.
2. Seats are allocated on the basis of the highest average score.
3. In a tied vote, the oldest among the candidates who can be potentially elected is declared the winner.
· Voting process: Verify Voter or Identification Card -> Receive an Envelope and 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. The President of the polling station announces the results and posts them at the front of the polling station.
3. The Constitutional Court is in charge of the proclamation of final results for referendums, legislative and presidential elections.
4. The results of the election of national counselors are announced by the committee in charge of centralizing votes following the receipt of all the minutes and attachments documenting the count of all votes.
5. Regarding the election of municipal counselors, a committee for the centralization of votes and proclamation of results is convened in the District of Bamako or the “cercle.” This committee operating under the supervision of the The National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), centralizes the results for each municipality, counts all votes, proclaims, publishes, and posts the results.