Territorial Council A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually a geographic area which has not been granted the powers of self-government, ...

elections were held in the

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Saint Barthélemy Saint Barthélemy, officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, also known as St. Barts (English) or St. Barth (French), is an overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean. The island lies about southeast of the island ...

on 18 March 2012.

Electoral system

The elections were held using a modified proportional

two-round system The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), sometimes called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality, is a single-winner electoral system which aims to elect a member who has support of the majority of voters. The two-round system involves one ...

with a

majority bonus A majority bonus system (MBS, also called a minority-friendly majoritarian system) is a mixed-member, partly-proportional electoral system that gives extra seats in a legislature to the party with a plurality or majority of seats. Typically, th ...

in one constituency. If a list received an absolute majority of the vote cast in the first round, no second round would be held. Otherwise, only lists that had obtained more than 10% of the vote could contest the second round. According to the electoral code, the list that finished first in the second round (or the first round, if no second round was held) and obtained a number of votes equal to at least one-third of registered voters would be given a seat bonus of one-third of the total seats (seven), while the other seats were allocated by proportional representation, under the

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. If multiple lists tied for first place, the bonus would be given to the list with the highest average candidate age.Code électoral (texte en vigueur en 2012)
p. 103. ''Conseil constitutionnel''. Councilors serve a five-year term, unless elected in a by-election, in which case they go up for re-election at the same time as other seats.

Results

References

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