In the last national election, how many days did it take for the EMB to establish final results?
Mauritius
Technical Assessment Team Report, p. 57
The results for each counting station were collected and openly posted at the counting centre. The returning officer collected the results for the whole constituency every hour and also posted them on a board inside the counting centre so that the party agents were able to follow the developments over the day. After the count, the returning officer certified, by endorsement on the writ, the candidates declared elected as members of the National Assembly and the number of votes they had respectively obtained. The endorsed writ was transmitted to the Electoral Commissioner’s Office.
The Mauritian parliament consists of 70 seats; 62 are constituency seats and a further 8 additional seats. Mauritius is divided into 21 constituencies, 20 constituencies with three seats each and one constituency with 2 seats (Rodrigues island). Plus up to eight additional seats are allocated by the Electoral Supervisory Commission according to a complex formula to 'best losers' to ensure 'a fair and adequate representation of each community'. http://www.content.eisa.org.za/sites/eisa.org.za/files/imports/import-data/WEP/mauseats.htm
For the 2010 elections, counting respectively scheduled for Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 May. The announcement of the ‘best losers’ was to be conducted on 7 May 2010.