Polling bureaus and election wards

1. Every constituency shall be divided into election wards (Secciones Electorales).


2. Each ward shall comprise a maximum of two thousand and a minimum of five hundred electors. Provided that every municipal community shall have at least one election ward.


3. No ward may comprise areas belonging to different municipalities.


4. Electors of each election ward shall be placed in the election lists by alphabetical order.


5. There shall be at least one polling bureau (Mesa Electoral) in every election ward


6. Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the number of electors in a ward or the territorial distribution or local population makes it advisable, the Provincial Delegation of the Electoral Register Office may, on a proposal by the respective city council, provide for the constitution of other bureaus and share out among them the electorate of the ward. In the first case the ward electors shall be allotted by alphabetical order to the different polling bureaus, which shall be preferably located in separate halls inside the same building. In the event of a scattered population said distribution shall be made on the basis of the least possible distance between the elector’s place of residence and the corresponding bureau. Provided that in no case the number of electors allotted to each bureau shall be less than two hundred.