Tonga
○ Parliamentary Elections
- Seats: 26
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 170
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 9 am and 4 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 59,003 (2017 election)
· Voter turnout: 67.14% (2017 general election)
- Parliamentary: first-past-the-post voting
· Voting process: Verify the voter identity -> Receive 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. Results are taken to the district Returning Officer to compile the result for the constituency.
3. The result of the count for each constituency is announced by the Supervisor of Elections following the compilation of results from each polling station.