Talk:2023 Cuban parliamentary election

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The current version "Background" includes a sentence on 80% voting for the full list. This doesn't make sense to those who don't know the electoral system, so I'd suggest this sentence needs to go after the sub-section on the voting system, or else (perhaps better) a very short version of it be included in the lead. BobFromBrockley (talk) 20:26, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd really like to add this information, as it is the most basic and consistent part of election articles on wikipedia. I'd call it block voting in a two-round/runoff vote, but I'm not 100% sure if that is the system as it has aspects of a party-list system, since you can elect all the candidates at once. Or, perhaps, that could be a whole other fact; that is that there is a straight-ticket option. In that case, it's just blocking voting with runoff voting. Anyone more capable in the language than me might be able to find definitive sourcing for this; I've tried translations of the actual electoral law, but the terms don't translate well into English. In any case, this very much should be the very first sentence of the "Electoral system" section, not the "Background" section. Criticalthinker (talk) 08:21, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral System

It is understood that there is a 1:1 correspondance between the number of nominated candidates and seats in the assembly. Whoever, does the election law have any limits on how many candidates can be proposed for nomination in each constituency? So, as an example, in a constituency which elects 5 candidates, is there a limit to how many candidacy proposals there can be? It'd be great if someone could use a specific example of the selection process in a constituency. Since the actual election is non-competitive, it's the least notable part of the process. The more interesting and noteworthy part of the process is pre-selection of candidates where the lists get whittled down, and we need a better and clearer description of this part of the process. It appears that this is the only part of the process where you have any competition, but even that's not clear. Some sources seem to imply that there are only as many candidates as seats in a constituency like at the actual nomination process. So, I'm confused. Criticalthinker (talk) 00:30, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]