Gender Quotas Database

According to the Representation of the People Act:

‘The total number of females on each party’s national additional list shall be at least one-third of the total number of persons on that list’ (Section 11B, Art, 5);

‘The total number of females on any party’s list for geographical constituencies, taken together, shall be at least one-third of the total number of persons on those lists taken together for the geographical constituencies in which that party is contesting’ (Section 11B, Art. 6);

‘There shall be no more than twenty per cent of the number of geographical constituencies in which a party is contesting for which the party’s geographical constituency list contain no female’ (Section 11B, Art. 7)

‘If it appears to the Commission that a list of candidates is defective […] the Chief Election Officer shall, not later than the 30th day before election day, so inform the representative of the list, specifying the defects (Section 14, Art. 1);

‘The representative and deputy representative of a list of candidates, or either of them, may, not later than the 29th day before election day, submit to the Chief Election Officer corrections of any defects in the list’ (Section 15);

‘[…] no list of candidates shall be valid unless it has been approved by the Commission not later than the 28th day before election day’ (Section 17, Art. 1).