Voting from Abroad Database

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The Gambia

Year	Election type	Voting method	First year	Comments
2022	No external voting	No external voting	Not applicable	Out-of-country voting was not implemented in the 2021 Presidential Elections and 2022 Legislative Elections.
2018	No external voting	No external voting	Not applicable	EU Election Observation Mission to the Gambia 2017: “Despite the mandatory provision in the Elections Act which requires the IEC to maintain a register of Gambians living abroad, this provision has not yet been acted upon.” There are many media articles about petitions and calls for allowing Gambian diaspora to vote in national elections. Data has been updated in April 2018.
2012
2007	No external voting	No external voting	Not applicable	Based on the research conducted for the publication of the Voting from Abroad: The International IDEA Handbook 2007.

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