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Boundary Delimitation

Haiti Haiti

BD001

Delimitation of constituencies
Question:Are constituencies delimited for election purposes?
Answer: b. No, existing regional/provincial/other boundaries are used
Comments: International Mission for Monitoring Haitian Elections, final report 2006: "The territorial delineation process is based primarily on the 1987 Constitution and the Electoral Decree of February 3, 2005. The Constitution states that each municipal community constitutes an electoral district that elects a deputy, limits the number of senators to three per department and entrusts the organization and supervision of elections to the Permanent Electoral Council. The Electoral Decree determines the list of departments (10), electoral districts (99) and communes (139). Despite the 1987 Constitution (Chapter 2, Title V), the Electoral Decree list includes several electoral districts made up of two, and sometimes even three, communes. Except for the city of Port-au-Prince, nowhere else is there another large population cluster with more than one deputy. The Haitian legal context has two features that made it difficult in the past to achieve the objective of demographic equality of districts. On the one hand, the Constitution associates an equal number of elected members to territorial entities (three senators per department; one deputy per local community) with populations of sometimes very unequal sizes. On the other hand, the election laws do not specify the criteria to be used to create new districts. This legal void has had a negative impact. The majority of new districts formed between 1995 and 2005 (12 of 16) were created by dividing already over-represented districts, which emphasized the existing demographic imbalance among electoral units in Haiti."
Source: International Mission for Monitoring Haitian Elections, final report 2006: Le Moniteur sous la direction de Beauzile, Fritzner, « Loi électoral », http://haitijustice.com/pdf/legislation/loi-electorale-haiti-2013.pdf, 168ième année No. 229, 2013.
Verified: 2015/04/08
BD003

Criteria for drawing boundaries
Question:On what criteria are the boundaries drawn?
Answer(s): d. Conformity with local jurisdiction boundaries
Comments:
Source: International Mission for Monitoring Haitian Elections, final report 2006: http://www.mieeh-immhe.ca/pdf/reportfeb7_e.pdf ;Le Moniteur sous la direction de Beauzile, Fritzner, « Loi électoral », http://haitijustice.com/pdf/legislation/loi-electorale-haiti-2013.pdf,Art.136, 168ième année No. 229, 2013, P.32
Verified: 2015/04/08
BD005

Body responsible for drawing boundaries
Question:The body responsible for drawing the boundaries is:
Answer(s): e. Electoral Management Body (EMB)
Comments:
Source: Le Moniteur sous la direction de Beauzile, Fritzner, « Loi électoral », http://haitijustice.com/pdf/legislation/loi-electorale-haiti-2013.pdf, Art.6, 168ième année No. 229, 2013, P.4-5.
Verified: 2015/04/08
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