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Is there a maximum allowable voter capacity of a polling station for the national elections?

total countries/territories: 190
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  • Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Andorra
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Antigua and Barbuda
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Anguilla
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Albania
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1.000 No
  • Armenia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2.000 No
  • Angola
    Yes, the maximum capacity is:
  • Argentina
    Each circuit will be divided into tables, which will be constituted with up to three hundred and fifty (350) registered voters.
  • American Samoa
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No No
  • Austria
  • Australia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: X No
  • Aruba
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Barbados
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Bangladesh
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 3000 No
  • Belgium
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 700-799 No
  • Burkina Faso
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 800 électeurs. No
  • Bulgaria
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1.000 No
  • Bahrain
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No no maximum
  • Burundi
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Benin
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 500 No
  • Bermuda
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Bolivia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 300 citizens No
  • Brazil
    Yes. Art. 117 The polling stations, organized as voter registration requests are approved, shall not have more than 400 (four hundred) voters in the capitals and 300 (three hundred) in other locations, nor fewer than 50 (fifty) voters. § 1 In exceptional cases, duly justified, the Regional Court may authorize exceeding the limits set in this article, provided that this measure facilitates the exercise of voting, bringing the voter closer to the designated polling place. § 2 If in a section designated for the blind, the number of voters does not reach the required minimum, it will be completed with others, even if they are not blind.
  • Bahamas
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 400 No
  • Botswana
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 No
  • Belarus
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 3.000 No
  • Canada
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: X No
  • Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of the
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Central African Republic
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Congo (Brazzaville)
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Switzerland
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Côte d'Ivoire
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 électeurs No
  • Cook Islands
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Chile
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 350 voters No
  • Cameroon
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 500 votants. No
  • Colombia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 300 voters. No
  • Cuba
    Yes, the maximum capacity is:
  • Cape Verde
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 300 No
  • Czech Republic
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Djibouti
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Denmark
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Dominica
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 300 voters. No
  • Dominican Republic
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 400 voters No
  • Algeria
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Estonia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Egypt
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Eritrea
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Spain
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2000 No
  • Ethiopia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No maximum No
  • Finland
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No N/A
  • Fiji
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No no
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No no maximum
  • France
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Gabon
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Grenada
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • French Guiana
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Gibraltar
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Gambia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2000 voters No
  • Guinea
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Guadeloupe
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Equatorial Guinea
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Guatemala
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 No
  • Guam
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Guinea-Bissau
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Guyana
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 350 - 450 No
  • Hong Kong
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Honduras
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 300 voters No
  • Croatia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Haiti
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Hungary
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1200 No
  • Indonesia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 500 No
  • Ireland
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No NA
  • Israel
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • India
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Iraq
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Iran, Islamic Republic of
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Iceland
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Italy
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1200 No
  • Jamaica
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Jordan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Japan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Kenya
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: regulated by the presiding officer No
  • Kyrgyzstan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Cambodia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 700 voters No
  • Kiribati
    No official information provided.
  • Comoros
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
    Not explicitly stated.
  • Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Korea, Republic of
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 4.000 No
  • Kuwait
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Cayman Islands
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Kazakhstan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Lebanon
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 No
  • Saint Lucia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: Approximately 300 electors per polling station No
  • Liechtenstein
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Sri Lanka
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 3000 No
  • Liberia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Lesotho
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 500 No
  • Lithuania
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 5000 No
  • Luxembourg
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Latvia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Morocco
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Monaco
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Moldova, Republic of
    y. The polling stations shall have between 30 and 3,000 voters and be established in similar terms for the elections of any level and in republican referenda.
  • Madagascar
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Marshall Islands
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No No
  • Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: - No
  • Mali
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 700 ou fractin de 700 No
  • Burma (Myanmar)
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Mongolia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Martinique
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Mauritania
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Malta
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Mauritius
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 400 to 500 Electors per Voting Room in each Polling Station No
  • Mexico
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 750 No
  • Malaysia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 3,800 No
  • Mozambique
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: Approximately 1000 No
  • Namibia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • New Caledonia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2000 No
  • Niger
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 electeurs No
  • Nigeria
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 500
  • Nicaragua
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 400 voters No
  • Netherlands
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Norway
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Nepal
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Nauru
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Niue
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No No
  • New Zealand
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Panama
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 500 voters No
  • Peru
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • French Polynesia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2000 No
  • Papua New Guinea
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Philippines
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Pakistan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1500 No
  • Poland
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 3000 No
  • Puerto Rico
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 500 electors No
  • Palestine
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 No
  • Portugal
    Article 40 Polling stations 1 – Each parish shall have one polling station. 2 – The polling stations of parishes where the number of electors significantly exceeds 1,000 shall be divided into polling sections, at the initiative of the parish authority or the municipal authority, in such a way that the number of electors is adequate to the geographical reality and to the venues for conducting the electoral act, aiming, where possible, not to exceed that number significantly. 3 – By the thirty-fifth day before election day, the mayor shall decide on the division requests provided for in the previous paragraph, and shall immediately communicate them to the corresponding parish council and to the electoral administration services. 4 – The decision referred to in the previous paragraph may be appealed within a time limit of two days, at the initiative of the parish councils or of at least ten electors from any polling station, to the section of the local instance of the judicial district court with civil competence and jurisdiction in the area of the municipality, unless a section of the central instance of the judicial district court with civil competence is functioning at the seat of the municipality, in which case the appeal shall be lodged before that section. 5 – The definitive chart of polling stations and sections shall immediately be affixed at the municipal councils. Article 40-A Polling stations abroad Each station or consular post corresponds to a polling station, which will be divided when more than 5000 voters are registered there to vote in person.
  • Palau
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Paraguay
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 300 No
  • Réunion
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Romania
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2.000 No
  • Russian Federation
    2. Election precincts, referendum precincts shall be formed by the head of a municipal formation in coordination with commissions by the head of local administration of municipal formation, urban district, city territory of the federal city, and in cases stipulated by the law of the subject of the Russian Federation – federal city – by the head of territorial body of executive power of the federal city, and at election to body of local self-government of an urban settlement, excluding urban district, or rural settlement (hereinafter urban settlement except urban district and rural settlement are referred to as settlement) – by the head of local administration of settlement or persons indicated in Clauses 3 and 6 of this Article, corresponding commission in the order stipulated by Clause 5 of this Article on the basis of the data on the number of voters, referendum participants registered in the territory of the election precinct, referendum precinct in accordance with Clause 10, Article 16 of this Federal Law, with not more than 3 thousand voters, referendum participants per precinct. Election precincts, referendum precincts shall be formed not later than in 45 days prior to the voting day. (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)
  • Rwanda
    Yes, the maximum capacity is 700
  • Solomon Islands
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Seychelles
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: it is regulated No
  • Sudan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Sweden
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Singapore
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Saint Helena
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Slovenia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Slovakia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1000 No
  • Sierra Leone
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 1,000 No 500
  • San Marino
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Senegal
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 800 No
  • Somalia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: not specified No
  • Suriname
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Sao Tome and Principe
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 No
  • El Salvador
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 400 voters per polling station. No
  • Swaziland
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Chad
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Togo
    Yes, the maximum capacity is:
  • Thailand
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Tajikistan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Timor-Leste
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 600 No
  • Turkmenistan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Tunisia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No no maximum
  • Turkey
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 300 No
  • Trinidad and Tobago
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Taiwan
    No
  • Tanzania, United Republic of
  • Ukraine
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 3000 No
  • Uganda
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Uruguay
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 400 No
  • Uzbekistan
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 400 electors No
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Viet Nam
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2000 voters No
  • Vanuatu
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No
  • Wallis and Futuna
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: 2000 No
  • Samoa
    Only six (6) voters are allowed in a polling booth at the same time; and only one (1) voter is allowed in an inner compartment.
  • Yemen
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No no maximum
  • South Africa
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Na
  • Zambia
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No X
  • Zimbabwe
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: It is regulated No
  • Zanzibar
    Yes, the maximum capacity is: No Not applicable