1. two members for the first five thousand
residents registered for each administrative
division or two members for administrative
divisions with less than five thousand
residents; and
2. where the residents registered to an
administrative
division
exceed
five
thousand residents, one additional member
for each group of five thousand residents in
excess of the first five thousand.
(b) The administrative divisions at the time this
Constitution comes into force, referred to in this
Article shall be the twenty administrative Atolls
plus Male’, for a total of twenty one. The details
of the administrative divisions are specified in
Schedule 2 of this Constitution.
Election of members
72.
(a) Each administrative division shall establish
separate electoral constituencies in accordance
with the principles specified in Article 71 of this
Constitution. All members shall be elected from a
separate electoral constituency.
(b) The person elected from amongst those standing
for election in each separate electoral
constituency shall be the person receiving the
greatest number of votes by secret ballot.
(c) A law shall specify the manner of determining the
number of electoral constituencies in each
administrative division and the boundaries of
each electoral constituency. Such law shall specify
the principles pursuant to which the population
on each administrative division shall be divided
into the separate electoral constituencies such
that there is an approximately equal division of
the population.
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