corporations, and general organizations, and two members, one of them will be the secretary general
of the committee. The Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments shall issue a decision
appointing the chairs and members of the committees, as well as their headquarters. The decision
shall also specify the eligible person acting in lieu of the chair in his/her absence or inability to
carry out the job. The Executive Director of the elections shall appoint a number of employees to
help such committees in carrying out its duties according to the needs of each committee ....”
10. Article (18) of the same Law mentioned above, stipulates that, “The Minister of Justice, Islamic
Affairs, and Endowments shall preside over a supreme committee to supervise the validity of
the referendum and the election of the members of the House of Representatives throughout the
Kingdom, and to decide on all matters presented to it by the committees mentioned in Article
(7) of this Law. The Supreme Committee shall comprise a sufficient number of judges and legal
advisers appointed by the Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments. The Central
Statistics Organization shall assist the Supreme Committee in carrying out the preparations for the
referendum, election, and nomination, and the supervision of all necessary technical works.”
11. Hence, Decree No. (71) of 2014 on the identification of electoral districts, constituencies, boundaries,
and sub-committees for the election of the House of Representatives, whereby the Kingdom of
Bahrain is divided into a number of electoral districts, namely, the Capital district, which is divided
into ten (10) electoral constituencies; Muharraq district, which is divided into eight (8) electoral
constituencies; the Northern district, which is divided into twelve (12) electoral constituencies; and
the Southern district, which is divided into ten (10) electoral constituencies. The delimitation of
each electoral district is the boundaries of the governorate in which it is located, with a total of forty
(40) provincial electoral constituencies.
12. Under the provisions of Decree No. (71) of 2014 on the identification of electoral districts,
constituencies, boundaries, and sub-committees for the election of the House of Representatives,
and Decree No. (80) of 2014 and Decree No. (44) of 2018, there are (14) public voting and counting
centers distributed among the various governorates of the Kingdom. These centers are for the
voters who are registered in one of the electoral lists in the Kingdom and wish to cast their votes
before such centers, to elect one of the candidates registered in their constituencies, provided that
the Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments issues a decision forming the committees
and determining their headquarters.
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