Section 1: Local referendum

For a referendum decided by a department, a census commission, sitting in the departmental capital, totals the results recorded at the level of each commune as soon as the polling closes. It comprises three members, including a serving or honorary magistrate, chairman, appointed by the first president of the court of appeal, a person appointed by the State representative in the department and a person appointed by the president of…

The commission shall decide any questions that may arise, apart from any complaints, from the counting of the ballot papers, shall make any necessary rectifications and shall proclaim the results in public. The work of the commission shall be completed no later than midnight on the day following the ballot. The vote-counting operation is recorded in minutes drawn up in duplicate and signed by all the members of the commission….

For a referendum decided by a region, articles R. 1112-11 and R. 1112-12 shall apply. However, the census commission provided for in Article R. 1112-11 includes a person appointed by the president of the regional council in place of the person appointed by the president of the departmental council. A copy of the minutes of each committee in the departments of the region concerned is sent without delay, in a…

For a referendum decided by a territorial authority other than the commune, department, region or Corsican authority, the results recorded at the level of each commune are sent to a census commission sitting with the organising authority. Articles R. 1112-11 et R. 1112-12. However, the census commission includes, in addition to its chairman appointed as described in article R. 1112-11, a person appointed by the representative of the State responsible…