BARBADOS

ELECTORAL SYSTEM
 
Chamber:
  Senate
 
Electoral Law:
  1 January 1900
 
 
Constituencies:
  (not applicable)
 
Voting System:
  Vacancies are filled by appointment made according to how the seat was originally filled.
 
Voter requirements:
  (not applicable)
 
Eligibility:
  - age: 21 years
- Barbados citizenship
- residence in the country for at least 12 months immediately preceding appointment
- ineligibility: undischarged bankruptcy, insanity, allegiance to a foreign State, death sentence, imprisonment exceeding 6 months, conviction of felony or of an offence involving dishonesty, electoral fraud
 
Incompatibilities:
  - public officers
- members of armed or police forces
- judges
- director of public prosecutions
- Auditor-General
 
Candidacy requirements:
  (not applicable)


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