| Parliament name |
Legislature |
| Structure of parliament |
Bicameral |
| Chamber name |
The Liberian Senate |
| Related chamber (for bicameral parliaments) |
House of Representatives
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| LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
| Electoral Law |
29 September 1986
Last amended: 17 September 2014 |
| Mode of designation |
directly elected 30 |
| Constituencies |
15 multi member constituencies (two seats each) corresponding to counties. |
| Voting system |
Majority:
Block vote
The two candidates who obtain the highest and second highest numbers of valid votes cast are elected.*
*Candidates who obtained the second highest number of valid votes cast in the 2005 elections served a six year term, instead of a nine-year term. All senators elected after the 2011 elections will serve a nine-year term.
By-elections are held within 90 days to fill seats which become vacant between general elections, except in the last 90 days before a general election. |
| Voter requirements |
- Liberian citizenship;
- Age: at least 18 years old at the end of the registration period;
- Registration on a voting roll;
- Residence in the country during voter registration and on polling day;
- Disqualifications: mental illness, court-declared incompetency. |
| CANDIDATES |
| Eligibility |
- Liberian citizenship by origin;
- Age: at least 30 years old. |
| Incompatibilities |
Not available. |
| Candidacy requirements |
(1) Membership of a political party, one of whose members is, at the time of the election, the President or a member of the legislature;
(2) Membership of a political party which, or status as an individual candidate who, in the most recent elections, obtained at least 2% of the total of all valid votes cast for all candidates in the constituencies in which the party or candidate ran. Parties which or candidates who fail to reach the 2% threshold are not allowed to contest the next two elections.
- The list of candidates presented by a political party must include a candidate for at least half of all the constituencies in the election.
- A political party or coalition should endeavor to ensure that no less than 30% of the members of its governing body and no less than 30% of those on its candidate list for an election are from each gender.
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