Local Elections 2012

Local Elections 2012

Local Elections 2012

On July 10th, 2012 the Cabinet issued a decision No. (01/08/14/C/PA) to hold local elections in all West Bank districts on October 20th, 2012. 272 out of a total of 353 localities participated in said elections. However, the Cabinet issued another decision to hold complementary elections on 22 December 2012 where 81 localities took part.

The Cabinet decided a second complementary elections to take place on Saturday, 1 June 2013 in 36 localities in the West Bank, included the localities in which elections were postponed due to court decisions, the localities where no electoral lists qualified for nomination during the first and complementary local elections and the localities where the majority of its council’s members had resigned.

Candidates by gender

Number of men and women who won by acclamation
Number of men	1396
Number of women	375

Number of men and women who voted on as candidates
Number of men	1947
Number of women	700

Voting Percentage Per Locality

District	No. of localities	No. of eligible voters	No. of electorsincluding security forces	Voting Percentage
Jerusalem	2	8,494	4,719	55.6%
Jenin	15	62,264	32,297	51.9%
Tulkarem	7	51,265	32,684	63.8%
Tubas	4	16,938	11,757	69.4%
Nablus	13	92,345	46,368	50.2%
Qalqilia	4	23,998	13,819	57.6%
Salfit	12	24,979	19,057	76.3%
Ramallah& al-Bireh	18	58,621	29,522	50.4%
Jericho	2	10,819	5,232	48.4%
Bethlehem	8	43,492	28,502	65.5%
Hebron	8	112,385	53,196	47.3%
Total	93	505,600	277,153	54.8%

Local Council Elections Law No. 10 of 2005

Local Council Elections Law No. 10 of 2005
On 13 August 2005, the PLC passed Local Council Elections Law No. 10 of 2005, which was issued by President Mahmoud Abbas on 15 August 2005. This law annuls Local Council Elections Law No. 5 of 1996 and Law No. 5 of 2004. It also replaces the simple majority system (districts) with a system of proportional representation (lists). In addition, it stipulates a required woman quota on local councils. Some articles of this law were amended by Law No. 12 of 2005, which was passed by the PLC on 27 August 2005 and issued by the President two days later.

Local Councils Elections Law No. 10 of 2005

2012 Local Elections Timeline

Based on Cabinet’s decision No (01/08/14/c.PA) issued on 10/07/2012 calling for the 2012 Local Council Elections to be held on October 20, 2012, the CEC announces the legal timeline for all electoral procedures, based on the Local Council Elections Law No. 10 of 2005:

Electoral event	Legal period (days)	Date of Implementation
Cabinet decision calling for elections	1	10/07/2012
Voter registration, exhibition and challenges	5	05/08/2012
Processing of appeals by the Commission	5	10/08/2012
Appealing of CEC decisions before the court	5	15/08/2012
National Holidays 19-21/08/2012
Adjudication of appeals by the court	3	27/08/2012
*Nomination	10	01/09/2012
Last date to withdraw nominations for candidates	1	09/09/2012
Closing of nominations	1	10/09/2012
**Publishing of the preliminary list of candidates	1	16/09/2012
Receiving of objections to the lists and their candidates	3	16/09/2012
Processing of objections to the nominations	3	18/09/2012
Appealing the CEC decisions on the nominations before the court	3	23/09/2012
Adjudication of the appeals submitted on the nominations by the court	5	26/09/2012
Last date to withdraw nominations for lists	1	03/10/2012
Publishing of the final register of electoral lists	1	04/10/2012
***Electoral campaigning	13	06/10/2012
Last date of electoral campaigning	1	18/10/2012
Early voting for security forces	1	18/10/2012
Polling day	1	20/10/2012
Announcement of the preliminary election results and commencement of the final counting process	1	20/10/2012
Announcement of the final election results	3	20/10/2012
Submission of appeals on election results to the electoral court	7	23/10/2012
National Holidays 25-28/10/2012
Adjudication of appeals by the electoral court	5	05/11/2012