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POLITICAL FRANCHISE.
Same o( Electoral Di-nsion
! Nnmber
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tstires
Number of
N m n b e r o f
registered | Voters at last
Electors at
laat General
Election
General
Election
Date of laat
General
Election
Remarki
For the purpose of election of Mohammedan
Members the Colony is divided into three
Electoral Districts, as follows
: —
1st Electoral District:
Nicosia and Kyrenia
2nd Electoral District:
Famagusta and Larnaca
3rd Electoral District :
Limaasol and Paphos
Totals
For the purpose of election of non-Moham–
medan Members the Colony is divided into twelve
Electoral Dstricts, as follows: —
NICOSIA DISTRICT
:
1st Electoral District :
The Nahieh of Deyirmenlik
2nd Electoral District :
The Nahieh
of Dagh
Zrd Electoral District :
The Nahiehs of Lefka and Morphou
K Y R E N I A DISTRICT
:
4th Electoral District :
The Nahieh of Kyrenia
FAMAOTTSTA DISTRICT:
5th Electoral District :
The
Nahieh of Famagusta
6th Electoral District :
The
Nahiehs of Messaoria and Karpas
L A R N A C A "DISTRICT :
1th Electoral District :
All
that portion of the Nahieh of Larnaca east of
the Nicosia-Larnaca Road, including Larnaca
town (Municipal limits)
8tfi Electoral District :
All that portion of the Nahieh of Larnaca west of
che Nicosia-Larnaca Road, excluding Larnaca
town (Municipal limits)
LDIASSOL DISTRICT :
'Mli Electoral District •
The Nahieh of Limassoi
10th Electoral District:
The Nahiehs of Evdhimou and Kilani
P A P H O S DISTRICT :
11 th Electoral District :
The
Nahieh of Paphos
12th Electoral District :
The
Nahiehs of Khrysokhou and Kelokethara ..
Totals
one
one
one
Three
one
one
one
4,142
4,172
3,475
11,789
3,185
2,501
5,686
3,806
4,925
7,074 •
7 Oct.,
1930.
do.
do.
— I
7 Oct.,
j 1930.
3,153 ! do.
5,562 !
do.
Poll taken on:
15 Oct., 1930.
No poll.
15 Oct., 1930.
N o poll.
17
Oct., 1930.
16 Oct., 1930.
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
one
3.706 |
3,000
6,739
2,475
3.040
2.045
5,246
2,205
3,671
2,739
2,612
l
1
1,908
1,002
1,738
3,645
1,754
1,911
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
16 Oct., 1930.
15 Oct., 1930.
No poll.
16 Oct., 1930
Poll taken on
15 Oct., 1930
15 Oct., 193n
15 Oct., 19:30
16 Oct., 1930
; 16 Oct., 1930
Twelve
49,831 26,024
1. His Majesty's Cyprus (Legislative Council) Order in Council,
1925. dated the 6th"ot" February, 19*2.-5, provides that:—
I.) Every male person, being a British subject, or having
resided in the Colony not less than rive years, w h o has attained
the age ot 21 years, and w h o is a payer of any class of the
taxes called Verglii. 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 him up to that date, is entitled
to be registered in rhe 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 1st of January
I" new style " ) , is 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
(a) he has, within the six months immediately preceding
the date of registration, received poor relief from pnblio
funds, or
(6) he has been sentenced by any Court in any part of
ITia 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 as
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
by or on behalf of a candidate at an election for all or any
of the purposes of such election, as agent, clerk, messenger,
or in any other capacity, is entitled to vote at such election.
(ii.) There shall be a session oi the Council once at lease
in each year, so that a period of twelve calendar months
do not intervene between the last sitting of one session and
the first sitting in the next session.
2. The duration of the session is about 12 weeks.