Elections in Nauru
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Nauru elects on a national level a head of state (the president) and a legislature. Parliament has 19 members (increased from 18 for the 2013 election), elected for a three-year term in multi-seat constituencies.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The president is elected for a three-year term by the parliament.
However, there are frequent changes of government in Nauru which occur without an election;Template:Citation needed most recently, in October 2023, when David Adeang was elected as the new President of Nauru following a no-confidence vote for Russ Kun.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Voting systemEdit
The 19 seat members of the Parliament of Nauru are elected through the Dowdall System, a decimalised modification of a preferential Borda count. The voter must rank all candidates in order of preference (see preferential voting). Each vote is then counted using the formula 1/n, according to ranking order. For example, a candidate ranked first receives one point, the second candidate receives half a point, the third candidate receives a third of a point, and so on. Each legal vote is aggregated in order to determine a decimal score for each candidate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For example, in the June 2010 Nauruan parliamentary election the then president Marcus Stephen regained his Anetan Constituency seat after receiving 349.617 decimal votes from a total of 630 votes. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Voter eligibility and election administrationEdit
The voting age in Nauru, as specified by the Article 29 of the Constitution, is 20 years old.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Voting is compulsory for citizens of Nauru. Early voting is held for the week before elections, for Nauruans who cannot make it to the polls on election day. A proxy can be appointed if a Nauruan citizen is out of the country on election day.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Elections in Nauru are administered by the Nauru Electoral Commission.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Before its founding in 2016, elections were administered by the chief secretary, a political appointment by the president.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Latest electionsEdit
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