Suriname
○ Presidential Election
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Parliamentary
- Seats: 51
- Term of office: 5 years
· Local government
- Seats: 868
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 623
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 7 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 356,223 (2015 election)
· Voter turnout: 72.72% (2015 general election)
- Presidential: Elected by the National Assembly. If no presidential or vice presidential candidate receives a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly after two votes, a simple majority is required in the United People's Assembly.
- Parliamentary: In the National Assembly (Nationale Assemblee) 51 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system. Members are elected to 10 multi-member constituencies.
· Voting process
1. Preparing the list of eligible voters.
2. Voting (Verify the voter identification card or a driver's license and polling card. -> Dip little finger into ink -> Receive ballots -> Cast ballots)
3. The party representatives may also assist incapacitated voters to mark their ballots.
4. Complete the closing procedures and draft and sign official reports regarding the use of allocated supplies and the number of voters who have sought to vote.
· 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. After the counting is completed, an official statement of the poll is written and signed by the members of the polling station.
3. Each main polling station has a public meeting once all statements of the poll have been received.
4. The district's main polling station determines the votes for each political party for the National Assembly and the local council and the total number of votes cast per district.
5. The official statement of the poll from the district's main polling station, as well as those from each individual polling station, are then forwarded to Central Polling Authority in Paramaribo.