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==Candidate Nominations== ==Candidate Nominations==


No political party, including the ], is permitted to nominate or campaign for any candidate. Instead, candidates are nominated by grass roots assemblies and by electoral commissions comprising representatives of mass organisations such as trade unions, womens' federations, youth organisations and so on. Candidates do not have to be affiliated to any party or organisation to be nominated. No political party, including the ], is permitted to nominate or campaign for any candidate. However, since the Communist Party is the only legal party in Cuba, it is extremely difficult, if not next to impossible, to gain political clout without becoming a member of the Communist Party. Candidates are nominated at local levels by the local population at small "Town Hall" type meetings.

In addition to receiving nominations from different organisations and institutions, the candidacy commissions carry out an exhaustive process of consultation before drawing up a final slate. In the February ] elections they consulted more than 1.5 million people and established a pool of between 60 and 70 thousand potential candidates before narrowing it down to 589.


Suffrage is afforded to Cuban citizens resident for two years on the island who are aged over sixteen years and who have not been found guilty of a criminal offence. Suffrage is afforded to Cuban citizens resident for two years on the island who are aged over sixteen years and who have not been found guilty of a criminal offence.

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Elections in Cuba gives information on election and election results in Cuba.

Cuba elects a national legislature, the National Assembly of People's Power (Asamblea Nacional de Poder Popular), which has 601 members, every five years.

Municipal assemblies are elected every two and a half years.

Candidate Nominations

No political party, including the Communist Party of Cuba, is permitted to nominate or campaign for any candidate. However, since the Communist Party is the only legal party in Cuba, it is extremely difficult, if not next to impossible, to gain political clout without becoming a member of the Communist Party. Candidates are nominated at local levels by the local population at small "Town Hall" type meetings.

Suffrage is afforded to Cuban citizens resident for two years on the island who are aged over sixteen years and who have not been found guilty of a criminal offence.

Municipal Elections, 2005

The turnout in the previous municipal elections was reported to be 95.76%. After a massive campaign to get more people to vote, Justice Minister Roberto Diaz Sotolongo of Cuba's National Electoral Commission reported that approximately 8.2 million Cubans of the country's population of approximately 11 million elected 169 municipal assemblies on Sunday 17th April, 2005.

In summary:

  • 96.66% of registered voters cast ballots, of which
  • more than 90% of ballots were in favour of the nominations list.
  • More than 600,000 citizens were involved in the preparation of
  • 37,280 polling stations, in which
  • 13,949 deputies were elected, of which
  • 52.48% were incumbent.

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