中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会和地方各级人民代表大会选举法（第三次修正）
Electoral Law of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses of the People's Republic of China
（Adopted at the Second Session of the Fifth National People 's Congress on July 1， 1979； revised for the first time in accordance with the Resolution on the Revision of Certain Provisions in the Electoral Law of the National People 's Congress and Local People 's Congresses of the People 's Republic of China adopted at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National people 's Congress on December 10， 1982； revised for the Second time in accordance with the Decision on the Revision of the Electoral Law of the National people 's Congress and Local People 's Congresses of the People 's Republic of China， adopted the 18th Meeting of the Standing1 of the committee of the sixth National People's Congress on December 2， 1986； revised for the Third time in accordance with the Decision Regarding Revision of the Electoral Law Of the National people 's Congress and Local people 's Congress of the People 's Republic of China， adopted at the 12th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People 's Congress on February 28， 19995）
颁布日期：19950228 推行日期：19790701 颁布单位：全国人大
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter Ⅱ Number of Deputies to the Local People's Congresses at Various Levels
Chapter III Number of Deputies to the National People's Congress
Chapter IV Elections Among Minority Nationalities
Chapter V Zoning of Electoral Districts
Chapter VI Registration2 of Voters
Chapter Ⅶ Nomination3 of Candidates for Deputies
Chapter Ⅷ Election Procedure
Chapter Ⅸ Supervision4， Recall and By-Elections Held to Fill Vacancies5
Chapter Ⅹ Sanctions Against Disruption of Elections
Chapter Ⅺ Supplementary6 Provisions
Chapter Ⅰ General Provisions
Article l The Electoral Law of the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses is formulated7 in accordance with the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.
Article 2 Deputies to the National People's Congress and to the People's congresses of provinces， autonomous8 regions， municipalities directly under the Central Government， cities pided into districts， and autonomous prefectures shall be elected by the people's congresses at the Next lower level.
Deputies to the people's congresses of cities not pided into districts， municipal districts， counties， autonomous counties， townships， nationality townships， and towns shall be elected directly by their constituencies.
Article 3 All citizens of the People's Republic of China who have reached the age of l8 shall have the right to vote and stand for election， regardless of ethnic9 status， race， sex， occupation， family background， religious belief， education， property Status or length of residence.
Persons who have been deprived of political rights according to the law shall not have the right to vote and stand for election.
Article 4 Each voter shall have the right to vote only once in an election.
Article 5 Elections shall be conducted separately in the People's Liberation Army， and the procedures for such elections shall be formulated separately.
Article 6 Among deputies to the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at various levels， there shall be an appropriate number of women deputies， and the proportion there of shall be raised gradually.
The National People's Congress and the local people's congresses of the areas with a relatively10 large number of returned overseas Chinese should have an appropriate number of deputies who are returned overseas Chinese.
Citizens of the People's Republic of China who reside abroad but who are in China during the election of deputies to people's congresses at or below the county level may take part in such elections conducted in their ancestral home town or place of domicile before they went abroad.
Article 7 The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress shall conduct the election of deputies to the National People's Congress. The standing committees of the people's congresses of Provinces， autonomous regions， municipalities directly under the Central Government， cities pided into districts， and autonomous prefectures shall conduct the elections of deputies to the people's congresses at the corresponding levels.
In cities pided into districts， municipal districts， counties， autonomous counties， townships， nationality townships， and towns， election committees shall be established to conduct the election of deputies to the people's congresses at the corresponding levels. The election committees of cities not pided into districts， municipal districts， counties and autonomous counties shall be under the leadership of the standing committees of the people's congresses at the corresponding levels. The election committees of townships， nationality townships. and towns shall be under the leadership of the standing committees of the people's congresses of cities not pided into districts， municipal districts， counties and autonomous counties.
The Standing committees of the people's congresses of provinces. autonomous regions， municipalities directly under the Central Government， cities pided into districts， and autonomous prefectures shall direct the work of electing deputies to the people's congresses at or below the county level in their administrative11 areas.
Article 8 Election funds for the National People's Congress and the local people's congresses at various levels shall be disbursed12 by the State Treasury13.
Chapter Ⅱ Number of Deputies to the Local People's Congresses at Various Levels
Article 9 The number of deputies to the Local people's congresses at various levels shall be determined14 in accordance with the following provisions：
（1） The base number of deputies to the people's congress of a Province， an autonomous region or a municipality directly under the Central Government is 350. For a province or an autonomous region， one more deputy may be added for every one hundred fifth thousand people， and for a municipality directly under the Central Government， one more deputy may be added for every twenty-five thousand people， however， if the population of a province exceeds one hundred million， the total number of its deputies shall not exceed l，000；
（2） The base number of deputies to the people's congresses of a city pided into districts or an autonomous prefecture is 240. One more deputy may be determined for every twenty-five thousand people， however， if the population of the city or autonomous prefecture exceeds ten million， the total number of its deputies shall not exceed 650；
（3） The base number of deputies to the people's congresses of a county， an autonomous county， a city not pided into districts or a municipal district is l20. One more deputy may be added for every five thousand people； however， if the population there exceeds one million six hundred fifty thousand， the total number of deputies shall not exceed 450； if the population is less than fifty thousand people， the total number of deputies may be less than l20；
（4） The base number of deputies to the people's congress of a township， a nationality township or a town is 40. One more deputy may be added for every one thousand five hundred people； however， if the population of a township or a nationality township exceeds ninety thousand， the total number of its deputies shall not exceed l00； if the population of a town exceeds one hundred thirty thousand， its total number of its deputies shall not exceed l30； if the population of a township， a nationality township or a town is less than two thousand， the total number of its deputies may be less than 40.
The base number of deputies to a local people's congress plus the number of deputies added according to the size of the local population as stipulated15 in the preceding paragraph shall be the total number of deputies to the local people's congress.
The number of deputies to the people's congresses of an autonomous region or a province where many minority nationalities live in concentrated community may， upon decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress， be added by five percent. The number of deputies to the people's congress of a county， an autonomous county， a township or a nationality township where many minority nationalities live in concentrated communities or people live in scattered16 groups may， upon decision of the standing committee of the people's congress of a province， an autonomous region or a municipality directly under the Central Government， be added by five percent of the total.
Article l0 The specific number of deputies to the people's congress of a province， an autonomous region or a municipality directly under the Central Government shall be determined by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress according to this Law. The specific number of deputies to the people's congress of a city pided into districts， an autonomous prefecture， or a county shall be determined by the standing committee of the people's congress of a province， an autonomous region or a municipality directly under the Central Government according to this Law and reported to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the record. The specific number of deputies to the people's congress at the township level shall be determined by the Standing Committee of the people's congress at the county level according to this Law and reported to the Standing committee of the people's congress at the next higher level for the record.
Article 11 once the total number of deputies to a local people's congress at any Level is determined， it shall no longer be changed. If the size of the population is changed considerably17 due to the change of the pision in the administrative regions or the construction of major projects or other reasons， the total number of deputies to the people's congress at the corresponding level shall be re-determined according to this Law.
Article l2 The number of deputies to the people's congresses of autonomous prefectures， counties and autonomous counties shall be allocated18 by the standing committees of the people's congresses at the corresponding levels， in accordance with the principle that the number of people represented by each rural deputy is four times the number of people represented by each town deputy. Townships， nationality townships， and towns with exceptionally small populations shall have at least one deputy in the people's congresses of their respective counties and autonomous counties.
In the administrative areas of counties or autonomous counties which have towns with exceptionally large populations， or have enterprises and institutions not under the leadership of the people's governments at or below the county level whose workers and staff account for a relatively large portion of the county's total population， the ratio between the number of people represented by a rural deputy and the number of people represented by a town deputy or a deputy of an enterprise or institution may， upon a decision made by the standing committee of the people's congress of the province， autonomous region， or municipality directly under the Central Government， be smaller than four to one， even to the extent of one to one.
Article l3 In municipalities directly under the Central Government， cities and municipal districts， the number of people represented by a rural deputy shall be greater than the number of people represented by an urban deputy.
Article l4 The number of deputies to the people's congresses of provinces or autonomous regions shall be allocated by the standing committees of the people's congresses at the corresponding levels， in accordance with the principle that the number of people represented by each rural deputy is four times the number of people represented by each urban deputy.
Chapter III Number of Deputies to the National People's Congress
Article l5 Deputies to the National People's Congress shall be elected by the people's congresses of the provinces， autonomous regions， and municipalities directly under the Central Government and by the People's Liberation Army.
The number of deputies to the National People's Congress shall not exceed 3，000. The allocation of the number of deputies shall be decided19 by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in accordance with existing conditions.
The number of deputies to the National People's Congress to be elected by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region and the methods for their elections shall be prescribed separately by the National People's Congress.
Article l6 The number of deputies to the National People's Congress to be elected by the provinces， autonomous regions， and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be allocated by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in accordance with the principle that the number of people represented by each rural deputy is four times the number of people represented by each urban deputy.
Article l7 The number of deputies to the National People's Congress to be elected by minority nationalities shall be allocated by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress， in the light of the population and distribution of each minority nationality， to the people's congresses of the various provinces， autonomous regions， and municipalities directly under the Central Government， which shall elect them accordingly. Nationalities with exceptionally small populations shall each have at least one deputy.
Chapter IV Elections Among Minority Nationalities
Article l8 In areas where minority nationalities live in concentrated communities， each minority nationality shall have its deputy or deputies sit in the local people's congress.
Where the total population of a minority nationality in such an area exceeds 30 percent of the total local population， the number of people represented by each deputy of that minority nationality shall be equal to the number of people represented by each of the other deputies to the Local people's congress.
Where the total population of a minority nationality in such an area is less than l5 percent of the total local population， the number of people represented by each deputy of that minority nationality may be appropriately smaller， but shall not be less than half the number of people represented by each of the other deputies to the local people's congress. In autonomous counties where the population of the minority nationality practising regional autonomy is exceptionally small， the number of people represented by each deputy of this minority nationality may， upon a decision made by the Standing committee of the people's congress of the province or autonomous region， be less than half the number of people represented by each of the other deputies. Other nationalities with exceptionally small populations living in concentrated communities shall each have at least one deputy. Where the total population of a minority nationality in such an area accounts for not less than l5 percent and not more than 30 percent of the total local population， the number of people represented by each deputy of that minority nationality may be appropriately smaller than the number of people represented by each of the other deputies to the local people's congress， but the allocated number of deputies to be elected by that minority nationality shall not exceed 30 percent of the total number of deputies.
Article l9 In autonomous regions， autonomous prefectures and autonomous counties， and in townships， nationality townships， and towns where a certain minority nationality lives in a concentrated community， the provisions of Article l8 of this Law shall apply to the election to the local people's congresses of deputies of other minority nationalities and the Han nationality also living in concentrated communities in such areas.
Article 20 With respect to minority nationalities living in scattered groups， the number of people represented by each of their deputies to the local people's congresses may be less than the number of people represented by each of the other deputies to such congresses.
In autonomous regions， autonomous prefectures and autonomous counties， and in townships， nationality townships， and towns where a certain minority nationality lives in a concentrated community， the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply to the election to the local people's congresses of deputies of other minority nationalities and the Han nationality living in scattered groups in such areas.
Article 2l In cities not pided into districts， municipal districts， counties， townships， nationality townships， and towns where various minority nationalities live in concentrated communities， the minority nationality electorates20 may vote separately or jointly21 in the election of deputies to the local people's congress， depending on the relations between the nationalities， and their residential22 situation in such areas.
In autonomous counties and in townships， nationality townships， and towns where a certain minority nationality lives in a concentrated community， the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply to the election to the respective people's congresses of deputies of other minority nationalities and the Han nationality living in such areas.
Article 22 The electoral documents， roll of voters， voter registration cards， list of candidates for deputies， deputies election certificates and election committee seals made or published by autonomous regions， autonomous prefectures and autonomous counties shall be in the written languages of the nationalities commonly used in the locality.
Article 23 Other matters concerning elections among minority nationalities shall be handled with reference to the provisions of the relevant articles of this Law.
Chapter V Zoning of Electoral Districts
Article 24 The number of deputies to the people's congresses in cities not pided into districts， municipal districts， counties， autonomous counties， townships， nationality townships， and towns shall be allocated to the electoral districts， and elections shall be held in the electoral districts. The zoning of electoral districts may be decided according to the voters' residence or on the basis of production units， institutions and work units.
The zoning of electoral districts shall be decided on the basis of one to three deputies to be elected from each electoral district.
Article 25 The number of people represented by each deputy from an urban electoral district shall be generally the same. The number of people represented by each deputy from a rural electoral district shall be generally the same.
