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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 609 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.

National elections, 2003

The national elections for the 609 members of the National Assembly of People's Power were held according to this system at 19 January 2003. All the 609 candidates who ran uncontested for the National Assembly were elected. According to IPU, all seats were won by the Communist Party of Cuba.

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.

• Elections in Cuba