Chương 2 Luật Bầu cử Đại biểu Quốc hội 1997: Số đại biểu quốc hội, đơn vị bầu cử và khu vực bỏ phiếu

Chapter II

NUMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEPUTIES, CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTORATES

Article 8.-

1. The total number of the deputies to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shall not exceed four hundred fifty.

2. Bases for assigning the number of National Assembly deputies to each province or city directly under the Central Government:

a/ Each province or city directly under the Central Government shall have at least three deputies who reside and work in the locality;

b/ The number of other deputies shall be determined according to the size of population and characteristics of each locality;

c/ The capital city of Hanoi shall be assigned an appropriate number of deputies.

3. Pursuant to the provisions in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly shall propose the number of National Assembly deputies to be elected in each province or city directly under the Central Government.

Article 9.- On the basis of the number of National Assembly deputies prescribed in Article 8 of this Law, the tasks and powers of the National Assembly and in order to ensure reasonable proportions of representatives of the various strata of the people in the National Assembly, after consulting the Standing Board of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the representatives of the socio-political organizations, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly shall, within eighty days before the election day, make the first proposition on:

1. The proportion and composition of the National Assembly deputies;

2. The number of the National Assembly deputies to be elected from the political, socio-political and social organizations, the People’s Armed Forces and State agencies at the central and local levels.

Article 10.- The number of the National Assembly deputies who are ethnic minority people shall be proposed by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly at the suggestion of the Nationality Council of the National Assembly in order to ensure that the different ethnic minorities have a proper number of deputies.

Article 11.- The National Assembly deputies shall be elected according to constituencies. Each constituency may elect not more than three deputies. Each province or city directly under the Central Government shall be divided into various constituencies.

The number and the list of constituencies and the number of deputies for each constituency shall be determined according to its size of population by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly and made public not later than seventy days before the election day.

Article 12.- Each constituency shall be divided into various electorates. Such division shall be decided by the commune, ward and township People�s Committees and ratified by the immediate higher People’s Committee.

Each electorate has from three hundred to two thousand voters. For a mountainous, island or sparsely populated area, an electorate can be set up even though it has less than three hundred voters.

The People’s Armed Forces units shall establish their own electorates, except for cases specified in paragraph 3, Article 17 of this Law.

A hospital, maternity house, sanitarium or nursing home for handicapped people with fifty or more voters may set up its own electorate.

An educational establishment or medical treatment establishment for persons who are serving administrative sanctions may set up its own electorate.