Latvia
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Saeima Elections
- Seats: 100
- Term of office: 4 years
· Local government (municipal council)
- Seats: 7 to 60
- Term of office: 4 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 953
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 8 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 1,548,100 (2018 election)
· Voter turnout: 54.58% (2018 parliamentary election)
· Voting age: 18
- Saeima
1. Proportional representation with a 5% threshold.
2. An unmodified Sainte-Laguë method is used to allocate seats.
- Municipal Council: consisting of 7 to 60 members, depending on the size of the municipality, by proportional representation
· Voting process
1. Election Announcement
2. Candidate Registration
3. Voter Notification
4. Voting ( Verify National ID Card -> Receive Ballots -> Mark Ballots -> Cast Ballots )
· Counting process
1. After the votes cast for each list of candidates have been counted, the polling station commission promptly announces the number of votes cast for each list of candidates.
2. The polling station commission delivers all election materials to the Central Election Commission.
3. Provisional results are published on the central election commission of Latvia(CVK)'s a dedicated website.
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: a week later.