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Election Resource Centre v. Charumbira
- Question Presented
- Is it inappropriate for a tribal leader to make public statements in support of a party?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 23, 2018
- Date added
- Jun 19, 2019
Judgment
Obradovic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff's dismissal from the military banned him from participating in the General Election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2003
- Date added
- Jul 8, 2019
Judgment
5- Centre for Policy Alternatives v. Commissioner of Elections
- Question Presented
- Filling of vacancies in the membership of provincial councils
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Party Registration
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 17, 2003
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2019
Judgment
SUP RAP 0173 2018
- Question Presented
- The TEPJF instructs the INE to issue a new resolution on the registration of Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez as an independent candidate to the Presidency of the Republic.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 9, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
Judgment
Mexico SUP JDC 304 2018
- Question Presented
- The High Chamber of the confirmed the validity of the candidacy of two transgender people (muxes in the state of Oaxaca) to occupy public posts reserved for women and revoked the registration of 15 male candidates.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jun 21, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
Judgment
Décision n° 98 407 DC du 14 janvier 1999 Conseil constitutionnel
- Question Presented
- Whether the Electoral Code provision requiring parity between male and female candidates violates the French Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Jan 14, 1999
- Date added
- Jul 25, 2019
Judgment
Tanganyika Law Society v. Tanzania
- Question Presented
- Whether the Tanzania regulation prohibiting independent candidates from seeking public office is unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Tanzania. United Republic of
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2019
- Date added
- Aug 1, 2019
Judgment
Kosovo Police v. Mustafa
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate violated the Law of General Elections prohibition on taking advantage of a public employee during a campaign period when the candidate used photo of the Kosovo Police Chief?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 10, 2019
- Date added
- May 20, 2020
Judgment
People's Democratic Party v. Degi Eremienyo
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Nigeria
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2020
- Date added
- Jun 2, 2020
Judgment
Re Culleton
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Nigeria
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jan 31, 2017
- Date added
- Jun 9, 2020
Judgment
63 Members of Parliament of Ukraine on the constitutionality of the provisions of Art. 43 of the Parliamentary Elections Law of Ukraine concerning the election deposit
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Ukraine
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jan 31, 2012
- Date added
- Jun 10, 2020
Judgment
New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa
- Question Presented
- Whether the requirement of political party membership for candidate eligibility is constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 11, 2020
- Date added
- Jun 11, 2020
Judgment
Resolução nº 22.610, de 25 de outubro de 2007
- Question Presented
- Whether elected officials crossing party lines after ascertaining political office violates Brazil's electoral code?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Party Registration
- Country
- Brazil
- Language of Decision
- Portuguese
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2007
- Date added
- Jun 17, 2020
Judgment
Szuchewycz v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the provision on which the candidate’s registration were denied are in violation of the Charter.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2017
- Date added
- Jun 23, 2020
Judgment
2001 (Gyo Tsu) 233 [Case to Seeking Nullification of the Election]
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Dec 18, 2001
- Date added
- Jun 29, 2020
Judgment
Buriro v. Shah
- Question Presented
- Where the citizenship requirement for candidacy may be met by a renunciation of dual citizenship.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jan 23, 2019
- Date added
- Jun 30, 2020
Judgment
Rind v. Balochistan
- Question Presented
- Whether failure to disclose education was grounds for disqualifying the petitioner as a candidate.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2018
- Date added
- Jun 30, 2020
Judgment
Khuhro v. Khan
- Question Presented
- Whether misstatements on the candidate’s election papers are sufficient to declare an election void.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 1, 2019
- Date added
- Jun 30, 2020
Judgment
Chee Siok Chin v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff’s application for Parliament was constitutionally denied. If not, whether the election results may be overturned for all members of Parliament.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 22, 2006
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2020
Judgment
Tan Chen Bock v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the reserved election clause solely permits choosing from the terms of office of Presidents elected by the citizens, or also includes those chosen by Parliament.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 23, 2017
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2020
Judgment
Mohamed v. Chairman of High Elections Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the elections of the Shura Council, Upper House, exceed the bodies authority and whether and actions taken by the body are consequently unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
Judgment
Mustafa v. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
- Question Presented
- Whether closed party lists and a first past the post system discriminates against independent candidates?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Voting Systems (Winner-take-all, proportional, etc.)
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2012
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
Judgment
Together for the Change Without Formalizing Candidacies
- Question Presented
- Whether the when there is a vacancy in the candidate list and a legal framework for alternating candidate gender on the ballot, the substitute must be of the same gender as the deceased.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Country
- Argentina
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Nov 12, 2019
- Date added
- Jul 7, 2020
Judgment
Roeskan Effendi & Rohidin Mersyah v. General Election Commission of South Bengkulu
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) of South Bengkulu manipulate the official result “systematically, structurally, and massively” by conducting dishonest and unfair vote counting?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jan 8, 2009
- Date added
- Jul 15, 2020
Judgment
Suryadharma Ali & M. Romahurmuziy v. General Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) violate the Legislative Election Law by eliminating a political party’s proposed candidate list with total women candidates that did not meet 30 percent gender quota as stipulated by the law?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
- Date added
- Jul 15, 2020
Judgment
In re 2016 Election of President of Iceland
- Question Presented
- Whether the prohibition of voters from signing support petitions for multiple candidates conflicts with Act. No. 36. 1945. Whether the plaintiff has a cause of action before elections take place.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Iceland
- Language of Decision
- Icelandic
- Date of decision
- Jun 15, 2016
- Date added
- Jul 23, 2020
Judgment
Seawright v. Board of Elections & In re Hawatmeh v. State Board of Elections
- Question Presented
- Whether late filings during the COVID-9 pandemic constitute unique circumstances that would permit remedy of the fatal defect when otherwise not provide in law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Health Concerns & Election Administration
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 21, 2020
- Date added
- Jul 27, 2020
Judgment
Goodface v. Lower Brule Sioux Tribe 2020 Election Board
- Question Presented
- Whether a Federal Court may hear a Tribal candidate eligibility claim under the federal question doctrine?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Indigenous Persons
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 25, 2020
- Date added
- Aug 27, 2020
Judgment
National Elections Commission v. Siebo
- Question Presented
- Whether the respondent lost his right to appeal the Review Panel rejection of his application when he failed to meet the Election Commission’s deadline.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Liberia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 16, 2020
Judgment
Yang v. Kellner
- Question Presented
- Whether removal of the candidates from the primary ballots after the termination of their campaign violates the voter’s right to elect the candidate of their choosing.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 5, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
Judgment