Gabon

Population Statistics

1,705,336

Total Population

255,800

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

01 October 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Electoral Law (1996, last amended 2011)

Updated: June 2015

Article 26 states:

The following electors are incapacitated and cannot be registered on the electoral roll...

  • (7)...minors and adults under guardianship or curatorship.

 

Article 27 states:

Electors who are struck by temporary incapacity are prevented from being on the electoral list.

 

Article 28 states:

Are also struck by a temporary electoral incapacity and cannot be registered on the electoral roll for a period set by trial; those whom the courts have forbidden the right to vote...

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Law (1996, last amended 2011)