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Guyana Election Commission, Representation of the People Act (last amended 2006), found in Laws / Legislation, accessed 9 October 2025

11A. Requirements for geographical constituencies.

(1) The National Assembly shall contain at least sixty-five elected members, and their election shall be on a party lists basis to which the system of proportional representation shall be applied; in this section and in section 11C the system of proportional representation referred to is known as the largest remainder system using the “Hare quota”. 

(2) Guyana shall be divided in ten geographical constituencies for the purpose of electing members of the National Assembly from each geographical constituency.

(3) Each of the ten regions of Guyana constituted as a registration district and a polling district under the Local Democratic Organs (Regional Democratic Councils) Order 1980 shall be deemed to be a geographical constituency. 

(4) The ten geographical constituencies shall elect twenty five of the members of the National Assembly. […]

(5) The remaining elected members of the National Assembly shall be chosen from lists supplied by contesting parties and such list shall be designated “national top-up lists”.