Nicaragua

Population Statistics

5,907,881

Total Population

886,182

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

07 December 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Electoral Code (2000, last amended 2012)

Updated: June 2015

Article 119 states:

Persons who have a physical impediment may be accompanied by a trusted person to exercise their right to vote…When the physical impediment is that of the upper extremities the mark with indelible ink may be done on any visible part of the body…

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Code (2000, last amended 2012)