Saint Lucia

Population Statistics

163,922

Total Population

24,588

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

22 September 2011

Signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


The House of Assembly (Elections) Act (1979)

Updated: June 2015

Section 60, subsection 4 states:

The presiding officer shall either deal with a blind elector in the same manner as with an otherwise incapacitated elector, or, at the request of any blind elector who has taken the oath in Form No. 18…and is accompanied by a friend who is a elector in the polling division, shall permit such friend to accompany the blind elector into the voting compartment and mark the elector's ballot paper for him. No person shall at any election be allowed to act as such friend to more than one blind elector.

 

Section 60, subsection 5 states:

Any friend who is permitted to mark the ballot paper of a blind elector as aforesaid shall first be required to take an oath in the form set out as Form No. 19 in the Third Schedule.

 

Section 60, subsection 6 states:

...whenever any elector has had his ballot paper marked as provided in subsection (3) or (4), the poll clerk shall enter into the poll book opposite the elector's name…the reason why such ballot paper was so marked.

 

Section 74, subsection 1 states:

Every election officer who--- …

  • (c) permits any person whom he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be a blind person or an incapacitated person to vote in the manner provided for blind persons or incapacitated persons, as the case may be; or
  • (d) willfully prevents any person from voting at the polling station at which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe such person is entitled to vote…shall be guilty of an offence against third section and on conviction on indictment, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

 

Excerpts from the House of Assembly (Elections) Act (1979)