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ZIMBABWE
Senate
ELECTORAL SYSTEM

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Parliament name Parliament
Structure of parliament Bicameral
Chamber name Senate
Related chamber (for bicameral parliaments) National Assembly
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Electoral Law 14 September 2005
Last amendment: 22 June 2013 (Electoral Act 85/2013)
Mode of designation directly elected 60
other 20
Constituencies - 10 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the country's 10 administrative provinces (6 per province)
Voting system Proportional: party-list system
Political parties are required to submit lists of candidates on which women and men are listed alternately, with women at the top of all lists.
Vacancies arising between regular elections are filled by the "next-in-line" candidate of the same party.

Voting is not compulsory.
Voter requirements - age: at least 18 at the time of registration
- Zimbabwean citizenship
- registration within the constituency
- disqualifications: absence from the constituency for more than one year, insanity or mental incompetence, incapacity to manage own affairs, conviction for electoral offence
CANDIDATES
Eligibility - qualified elector
- age: 40 at the time of registration
- Zimbabwean citizenship
- resident in the country for at least 5 years in the 20 years preceding the election

Disqualifications:
- persons disqualified under the Fourth Schedule of the 2013 Constitution for registration as a voter
- persons who, within five years before the election, vacated a seat in the Senate or the National Assembly because they were convicted of an offence
Incompatibilities - public office (except for Ministers or Deputy Ministers)
- members of the defence forces or certain members of the reserve police force
- persons holding unpaid office (other than allowances)
Candidacy requirements - candidacy put forward by a political party
- nomination by not fewer than five persons registered on the voter roll for the constituency
- deposit of the nomination fee

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