Macau elects at the regional level its
head of government
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and
legislature
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Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known ...
. The
Legislative Assembly is made up of 33 members, of whom 14 are elected by popular vote under
proportional representation
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, 12 elected from
functional constituencies and 7 appointed by the
Chief Executive
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. The
Chief Executive of Macau is returned by a 400-member Election Committee on five-year intervals.
Voter registration and candidacy
Natural persons can register as an elector of
direct suffrage to the
Legislative Assembly if they:
* have reached 18 years of age;
* are permanent resident of Macau; and
* are not declared by Courts as incompetent persons, deprived of political rights or manifestly insane.
Legal persons
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can nominate at most 22 electors with natural person suffrage to exercise the collective’s voting rights for
indirect suffrage
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to the Legislative Assembly and the Election Committee if they:
* are confirmed to be operating within the specified sector for at least 4 years;
* have obtained legal personality for at least 7 years; and
* for the Election Committee elections, are not in office as the
Chief Executive
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, Principal Officials, Judicial Magistrates, Public Ministers and Members of the Election Management Committee.
Natural persons registered as electors can run for elections of
direct suffrage and
indirect suffrage
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in the sector they belong to. Electors can also run for the Election Committee if they are not in office as the Chief Executive, Principal Officials, Judicial Magistrates, Public Ministers and Members of the Election Management Committee.
Legislative Assembly elections
Elections were held to return members of the
Legislative Assembly since 1976. Members returned from
direct suffrage and
indirect suffrage
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have been elected under
proportional representation
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with seats apportioned under the
highest averages method using the
D'Hondt method
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. Suffrage was opened to Macau Residents without Portuguese citizenship in 1984.
Compositions of elected seats in the Legislative Assembly are as follows:
1992
1996
2001
2005
2009
2013
2017
2021
Chief Executive elections
Candidates of the
Chief Executive
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are required to be nominated by at least 50 members of the Election Committee, before he is returned by the Election Committee with an absolute majority. The compositions of electoral colleges returning the Chief Executive are as follows:
1999
2004
2009
2014
2019
See also
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Electoral calendar
This national electoral calendar for 2022 lists the national/ federal elections held in 2022 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
January
* 16 January: Se ...
*
Electoral system
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Notes
References
External links
Chief Executive Election Law(English translation)
Chief Executive Election Law(Portuguese version)
Chief Executive Election Law(Chinese version)
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Politics of Macau