Subsection 3: Counting of votes and declaration of results (R)

The following articles of the Electoral Code are applicable to the vote count and results proclamation operations: 1° Article R. 63 relating to the organisation of the count; 2° Article R. 64 relating to the role of scrutineers and members of the bureau; 3° Article R. 65 relating to the appointment of scrutineers; 4° Article R. 65-1 relating to the grouping of envelopes by hundred; 5° Article R. 66 relating…

The results of the ballot are recorded in two minutes drawn up on forms provided by the territorial authority that decided on the referendum. They are signed by the members of the bureau. The delegates of the elected groups, parties or political groupings entitled to do so are invited to countersign the copies of the minutes. As soon as the minutes have been drawn up, the result is proclaimed in…

For a referendum decided by a commune, the result is publicly proclaimed by the president of the first polling station and immediately posted by the mayor. A copy of the minutes, to which are attached with their annexes the minutes of the voting operations in the polling stations, is sent to the representative of the State in the department or the collectivity.

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…