Burundi
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· National Assembly
- Seats: 123 (Legislature 2020-2025)
- Term of office: 5 years
· Senate
- Seats: 39
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 11,000
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 6 am and 2 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 4,484,928 (2020 Presidential Election)
· Voter turnout: 87.71 % (2020 Presidential Election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: directly elected by universal suffrage with absolute majority
- National Assembly: proportional representation from closed multi-ethnic party lists from each province Minimum quota of 2% of the votes for representation, must have 60% Hutu and 40% Tutsi members, 30% women, three members of Twa ethnic group are co-opted. 100 members elected from 18 constituencies, and 18 co-opted members
- Senate: composed of 2 members per province, one Hutu one Tsutsi Elected by colleges of members of the Commune Councils 30% of the members of council must be women, three Twa members co-opted 36 members are indirectly elected and 3 are Twa members.
· Voting process: Verify National ID Card -> Receive Ballots -> Cast Ballots
· Counting process
1. Reconciliation and counting undertaken at polling station after close of polling in presence of candidates and agents
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: 48 hours after the closing of polling stations