Requirements concerning list proposals

(1) The closing time and date for submission of list proposals is 12 p.m., 31 March in the year of the election. A list proposal is deemed to have been submitted when it has been delivered to the municipal authority in the case of elections to the municipal council and delivered to the county authority in the case of parliamentary elections and elections to the county council. The same party or group may put up only one list in each constituency.

(2) A list proposal must satisfy the following conditions:

a) It must specify to which election it applies.

b) It must have a heading which specifies the party or the group that has put the proposal forward. Where the list proposal has been put forward by a registered political party, the heading shall be identical with the registered name of the party. The name must in other respects not be confusable with the name of a registered political party, a registered Sami political unit or with the heading of other list proposals in the constituency.

c) It must specify which candidates are standing for election on the list. A list proposal must not have joint candidates with other list proposals applying to the same election in the same constituency. The number of candidates shall satisfy the requirements of section 6-2 below. The candidates shall be listed with their forename(s), surname and year of birth. Information about the candidates' occupation or residence may be shown. This shall be done where it is necessary to avoid confusion of candidates on the list.

d) A list proposal must have been signed by a certain number of persons, cf. section 6-3 below.

e) It must contain the name of a representative and an alternate among those who have signed the list proposal. These shall have the power to negotiate with the County Electoral Committee or the Electoral Committee with respect to changes to the list proposal. There should also be specified the names of a certain number of persons among those who have signed the list proposal who shall function as a representation committee with the power to withdraw the list proposal.

(3) A list proposal must be accompanied by such documents as are mentioned in section 6-4 below.

(4) A list proposal shall not contain any other type of information to the electors than that indicated in this section.