Chapter II
SIZE OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, ELECTION UNITS AND POLLING STATIONS
Article 9.- The number of members of the People's Council at each level is determined as follows:
1. The People's Council at communes, urban wards and townships:
A low-land commune or township with a population of three thousand or below shall elect nineteen members; for every one thousand and five hundred people above three thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed twenty five;
A mountainous and island commune or township with a population of two thousand or below shall elect nineteen members; for every five hundred people above two thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed twenty five;
A commune with a population of one thousand or below shall elect fifteen members;
An urban ward with a population of five thousand or below shall elect nineteen members; for every three thousand people above five thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed twenty five.
2. The People’s Council at districts, provincial towns and provincial cities:
A low-land or urban district with a population of eighty thousand or be low shall elect twenty-five members; for every eight thousand people above eighty thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed thirty five.
A mountainous or island district with a population of forty thousand or below shall elect twenty-five members; for every four thousand people above forty thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed thirty five;
A provincial town with a population of fifty thousand or below shall elect twenty-five members; for every eight thousand people above fifty thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed thirty five;
A provincial city with a population of eighty thousand or below shall elect twenty-five members; for every ten thousand people above eighty thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed thirty five.
3. The People's Council at provinces and cities directly under the Central Government:
A low-land province or a city directly under the Central Government with a population of one million or below shall elect forty-five members; for every forty thousand people above one million, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed seventy five;
A mountainous province with a population of five hundred thousand or below shall elect forty-five members; for every twenty thousand people above five hundred thousand, one additional member shall be elected, but the total number shall not exceed seventy five;
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and provinces with more than two and a half million population shall elect not more than eighty-five members.
Article 10.- Members of the People's Council at all levels shall be elected in electoral units. Each election unit shall elect not more than three members.
Article 11.- The number of electoral units in the election of the People's Councils at provinces and cities directly under the Central Government, and the list of the electoral units and the number of candidates in each unit, shall be decided by the People's Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government and approved by the Government.
The number of electoral units in the election of the People's Councils at the other administrative areas, and the list of electoral units and the number of candidates in each unit shall be decided by the People's Committees of the corresponding level and approved by the People's Committees at the immediate higher level.
Article 12.- The list of electoral units in the election of the People's Council at a level shall be sent by the People's Committee at that level to the Election Council of the same level. Fifty days at the latest before the election day, the Election Council shall make public the list of electoral units.
Article 13.- Each electoral unit is divided into many polling stations. Each polling station has three hundred to two thousand voters.
In mountainous and island area and in areas where the population lives in scattered places, a polling station can be set up even through the population is below three hundred.
A hospital, sanitarium, maternity house or a nursing home for handicapped people with fifty voters or above can set up a separate polling station.
The designation of polling stations for election to the People's Council at all levels shall be made by the People's Committees at commune, urban ward and township, and approved by the People's Committees of the immediate higher level.
The units of the People's Armed Forces shall set up their own polling stations.
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Luật Bầu cử đại biểu Hội đồng nhân dân 1994 (Bản Word)