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Nauru

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Sprent Jared DABWIDO
  • Head of Government: President Sprent Jared DABWIDO
  • Assembly: Nauru has a unicameral Parliament with 18 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by parliament to serve a 3-year term.
  • In the Parliament 18 members are elected through a Borda Count system to serve 3-year terms.***

*** Elections in Nauru are formally non-partisan. Nauru uses a modified Borda Count system called the Dowdall system. Key differences from the theoretical Borda system are that (1) this is applied in multimember constituencies and (2) the values assigned to a voter's preferences are fractions of a full point. (e.g. A voter's first preference carries a value of 1, her third preference a value of 1/3, and so on.) As with a single-winner Borda system, the N candidates with the highest vote totals win N seats in each district. There are seven two-seat districts and one four-seat district. A voter must use all her rankings for her ballot to be valid.

Population:

  • Population: 14,264 (July 2010 est.)

Past elections

Last Updated on 11/16/2011

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