Are official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system?

Bahrain: Voter’s Guide 2018, accessed 1 December 2018

VI. Counting Votes and Announcing the Result:

Counting Votes:

1. After the end of the voting process, the Ballot and Counting Committee starts the counting process in the same polling station.

2. Every candidate or his/her agent is allowed to observe the counting process.

3. The Committee starts counting votes and calculating votes received by every candidate.

4. When counting, the committee will consider the cases of which the vote is invalid.

5. It should be noted that the chairman of the Ballot and Counting Committee cannot know the winning candidate, hence cannot announce the winner, as this matter relates to the collection of votes in each of the sub-committees, the general committees and the committees abroad, the matter which is restricted to the Elections Supervisory Committee.

Announcing the Results:

1. The candidate shall get the outright majority (more than 50%) of the valid votes cast in the election; if this majority is not achieved by any of the candidates in the constituency, then a re-election will be held between the two which have gained the highest number of votes.

2. The Election Supervisory Committee in each governorate reviews the minutes of the Ballot and Counting Committee and the ballot papers received from the various subcommittees, general committees and the committees abroad; and calculates the counting results. Then, the Committee chairman announces the results of the elections of all the electoral constituencies belonging to his/her area, and the number of votes received by each candidate.

3. The Supreme Committee for General Supervision of the Soundness of Elections shall undertake the final declaration of the final result of the election of the Council of Representatives.

Decree No. 14 of 2002 on Exercising Political Rights, accessed 1 December 2018

Regulations do not provide for the use of electronic tabulation system.