Benin
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
- A vice-president elected at the same time
○ Parliamentary Elections
- Seats: 109
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 7,860
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 4 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 6,769,817 (2023 election)
· Voter turnout: 37.79% (2023 parliamentary election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: two round system, uninominal absolute majority(second round follow after 15 days of first
round)
- Parliamentary: members elected by direct popular vote in multi-member constituencies using the party-list proportional representation system
· Voting process
1. Voter enters polling station, presents voting card and presiding officials verify his name in the list.
2. Receives a ballot paper goes to the booth and marks his ballot, folding it.
3. Shows the presiding official he has only one ballot and is allowed to place it inside the ballot box.
· 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 township electoral operation centers receive the voter result from the polling stations, the data will be entered into a centralized computing system.
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: 3 days after the polling day