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Marube Ombeta, Kamotho Njenga v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)’s decision to implement the two-thirds gender rule for the 2022 elections is unconstitutional. Whether the IEBC’s decision to reject the petitioner’s candidate nominations list for the National Assembly and the Senate was unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 13, 2022
Judgment
Re Culleton
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Nigeria
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jan 31, 2017
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
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 11, 2020
Judgment
Karnwea v. National Elections Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether an investigation is necessary to prohibit a candidate from running when they allegedly do not meet the qualifications? Whether the Election Commission may go beyond the statutorily prescribed penalties for not meeting a qualification?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- EMB Independence
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Liberia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 20, 2017
Judgment
People's Democratic Party v. Degi Eremienyo
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Nigeria
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2020
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
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Tanzania. United Republic of
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2019
Judgment
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
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 23, 2018
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
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Liberia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2017
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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 25, 2020
Judgment
Ramos Rojas v. Sanabria Chacón
- Question Presented
- Whether a political party’s internal rules on candidacy criteria relating to nepotism may nullify an election of one of its registered candidates if he violated the party rules but otherwise met the eligibility criteria set up in the Constitution or statutes.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 3, 2020
Judgment
Núñez de Armas v. Magdaniel Hernández
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate must resign from his administrative position twelve months from the date of his registration as a candidate or twelve months from the date of the election to be eligible to run as a candidate.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 16, 2020
Judgment
Ledezma Acosta v. Ausecha Ordóñez and Armando Guevara Bravo
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate’s disqualification from running in an election should affect the eligibility of all the candidates on the political party’s candidate list, since as a result of the disqualification the entire list did not meet the gender quota minimum required by law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Party Registration
- Quotas
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Sep 17, 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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Brazil
- Language of Decision
- Portuguese
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2007
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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 21, 2020
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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 9, 2018
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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jun 21, 2018
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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Argentina
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Nov 12, 2019
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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 5, 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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2017
Judgment
Medina Padilla v. Aguilar Hurtado
- Question Presented
- Whether an election should be annulled because the elected candidate received an endorsement from registered members of a political party, along with some of that party’s militants, other than the candidate’s registered party.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Party Registration
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Aug 20, 2020
Judgment
Ortiz Daza v. Act Declaring the Election of Candelo Riascos
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate is permitted to endorse a candidate from another party (“double militancy”) when he receives express permission or derogation from his own party to do so, despite the provision in law that prohibits this practice.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 10, 2020
Judgment
Zambrano Castro v. National Electoral Council
- Question Presented
- Whether the rejection of an applicant’s mayoral candidacy should be overturned because he initiated a lawsuit to revoke disciplinary sanctions against him, thereby potentially qualifying him for a “pending lawsuit” exception as outlined in Article 100, Paragraph 8 of the General Code of Procedure.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Oct 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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jan 23, 2019
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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2018
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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jan 8, 2009
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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 1, 2019
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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 22, 2006
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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 23, 2017
Judgment
In Re Dispute Case No. 1 of 1999
- Question Presented
- Whether two rival groups within the same political party may utilize the same political symbol on the eve of elections.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Party Registration
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- India
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 7, 1999
Judgment