Zanzibar
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· House of Representatives
- Seats: 81
- Term of office: 6 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 1,630
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 4 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 165,044 (1963 election)
· Voter turnout: 71% (1963 general election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: Direct popular vote, First-past-the-post (FPTP)
- House of Representatives: 50 seats elected by FPTP in single-member constituencies, 10 members appointed by the President, 5 reserved for government-appointed regional commissioner, 15 filled by women on a party basis in proportion to elected seats. One seat is reserved for the Attorney general.
· Voting process: Verify voters' card -> Receive a ballot paper -> Mark the paper -> Cast the ballot in the presence of the presiding officer -> Mark the voter's finger with indelible ink
· 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. Copies of the results are posted outside the polling station and issued to party agents by the presiding officer; equipment, and documentation ballot papers are packaged and sealed and delivered to the returning officer.
3. Returning officer summates the results submitted by the presiding officer and publishes/announces the final results to the public.
4. The returning officer then submits the results to the NEC who publishes them in the government Gazette.
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: 3 days after the election day