Dominican Republic general election, 2020

Dominican Republic presidential election, 2020
May 17, 2020 (2020-05-17)

Presidential election results map
President before election

Danilo Medina
PLD

 Elected President

TBD
TBD

General elections will be held in the Dominican Republic in May 17, 2020. The elections will see a new president and vice president, 32 senators and 190 deputies elected.[1] Incumbent President Danilo Medina is ineligible for re-election, having served two consecutive terms since 2012.

Electoral system

The President of the Dominican Republic is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff will be held on June 28, 2020 between the two candidates with the highest votes on first round.

The 32 members of the Senate are elected from the 31 provinces and the Distrito Nacional using first-past-the-post voting.[2]

The 190 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected in three groups; 178 are elected by proportional representation from 32 multi-member constituencies based on the 31 provinces and the Distrito Nacional, with the number of seats based on the population of each province. A further seven members are elected by proportional representation by Dominican expatriates in 3 overseas constituencies , and five seats are allocated at the national level to parties that received at least 1% of the vote nationally, giving preference to those that did not win any of the 178 constituency seats.[3]

The 20 seats to the Central American Parliament are elected by national vote accumulation.

References

  1. ↑ "Elecciones de 2020 son un reto para la JCE" (in Spanish). El Día. August 2, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Senado (Senate) IPU
  3. ↑ Cámara de Diputados (Chamber of Deputies) IPU
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