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POLITICAL FRANCHISE.
N a m e of Electoral Division
Number
of Represen–
tatives
Number uf
registered
Electors at
last General
Election
Number of
Voters at last
General
Election
Date of laat
General
Election
For the purpose of election of Mohammedan
Members the Island is divided into three
Electoral Districts, as follows :—
1st Electoral Diatrict:
Nicosia and Kyrenia
2nd Electoral District:
Famagusta and Larnaca
Zrd Electoral District :
Limassoi and Paphos
Totals
For the purpose of election of non-Moham–
medan Members the Island is divided into twelve
Electoral Dstricts, as follows :—
N I C O S I A D I S T R I C T :
1st Electoral District :
The Nahieh of Deyirmenlik
2nd Electoral District. :
he Nahieh of Dagh
Zrd Electoral District :
The Nahiehs of Lefka and Morphou
K X R E N I A DISTRICT :
4th Electoral District :
The Nahieh of Kyrenia .. ..
F A M A G U S T A DISTRICT:
oth Electoral District :
The Nahieh of Famagusta
Uh Electoral District:
The Nahiehs of Messaoria and Karpass
L A R N A C A DISTRICT :
~th Electoral District :
All that portion of the Nahieh of Lamaca east of
the Nicosia-Larnaca Road, including Larnaca
town (Municipal limits)
Sth Electoral District :
All that portion of the Nahieh of Larnaca west of
the Nicosia-Larnaca Road, excluding Larnaca
town (Municipal limits)
LIMASSOL DISTRICT :
9f/i Electoral District:
The Nahieh of Limassoi
10*A Electoral District :
The Nahiehs of Evdhymou and Kilani
P A P H O S DISTRICT :
llth Electoral District:
The Nahieh of Paphos
12*A Electoral District:
The Nahiehs of Khrysokhou and Kelokethara ..
Totals
one
one
one
three
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
twelve
1. His Majesty's Cyprus (Legislative Council) Order in Council,
1923, dated the 6th of February, 1925, provides that:—
(i.) Every male person, being a British subject, or having
resided in the Colony not less thanfiveyears, who has attained
the age of 21 years, and w h o is a payer of any class of the
taxes called Verghi. and has on or before the 1st of January
(" new style ") in any year paid in respect of any electoral
district all Verghi payable by liim up to that date, is entitled
to be registered in the following year as a voter, and when
so registered, to vote at the election of members for such
district:
Provided that any such male person who, on or after the
2nd of January (" new style ") in any year, and before the
time appointed for making the lists of voters in that year,
has paid all Verghi payable by him up to the lst of January
•'.'
ne
.
w st
y'
e
" ) . -• entitled to be registered as a voter for such
district on production of the receipt for such payment.
N o person is entitled to be registered as a voter if
4,096
3,940
5,580
13,616
3,974
3,381
6,420
3.566
3,402
6,091
1,813
2,934
3,081
5,015
2.182 !
3,483
45,342
2,384
2,691
3,477
8,552
1 Oct.,
1925.
do.
do.
2,863 j 1 Oct.,
I 1925.
do.
2,626
4.764
do.
2.845 i do.
i
2,278 | do.
i
2,940 | do.
do.
mtyim-.J I |
2,306
3,438
1,657
1,992
29,966
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Remarks
Poll taken on •
13 Oot., 1925.
9 Oot., 1925.
8 Oot., 1925.
9 Oct., 1925.
9 Oct., 1925.
9 Oct., 1925.
9 Oct., 1925.
13 Oct., 1925.
12 Oct., 1925.
No poll.
Poll taken on:
! 10 Oct., 1925.
8 Oct., 1925.
12 Oct., 1925.
8 Oct., 1925.
12 Oct., 1925.
(a) he has, within the -ix months immediately preceding
the date of registration, received poor relief from publio
funds. or
(•>) he has been sentenced by any Court in any part of
His Majesty's Dominions to death or to penal servitude
or to imprisonment with hard labour for any term exceeding
12 months, and has not either suffered the punishment
to which he was sentenced or such other punishment M
by competent authority was substituted for the same or
received a free pardon from His Majesty, or
(c) he is of unsound mind.
N o person w h o has been retained or employed for reward
* t
r
°
n behftlf of
* candidate at an election for all or any
of the purposes of such election, as agent, cleric, messenger,
o r
/.?.
a n
7
oeher
capacity, is entitled to vote at such election.
(n.) There shall be a session of the Council once at least
m each year, so that a period of twelve calendar monthi
do not intervene between the last sitting of one session and
the first sitting in the next session.
-. The duration of the session is about 12 weeks.