October 24, 2015
Date on which first round presidential, second round legislative and mayoral elections will be held: October 25, 2015
Number of candidates for president: 54
Number of registered political parties: 128
Number of candidates for local and mayoral races: 41,000
Year in which terms expired and mayors were replaced by political appointees: 2012
Earliest date on which preliminary results are expected: November 3, 2015
Date on which presidential run-off, legislative reruns and local races will be held: December 27, 2015
Date that first-round legislative elections were held: August 9, 2015
Number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, respectively that were up for grabs in the first-round: 119 and 20
Number of candidates who were elected in the first round in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, respectively: 8 and 2
Participation rate during the first-round: 18%
Participation in the West department, home to over 40% of registered voters: 9.8%
Percent of 13,725 voting booths where no votes were counted during first-round Senate elections due to irregularities: 24.3
Number of electoral districts where first-round deputy races must be held: 25
Number of candidates sanctioned for their role in electoral disturbances: 16
Of Haiti’s 10 departments, number that did not announce first-round Senate results due to irregularities: 3
Number of departments where President Martelly’s PHTK party was involved in electoral irregularities, according to the CEP: 6
Total electoral budget: $74 million
United States contribution to electoral budget: $30 million
Amount spent on electoral campaign by Presidential candidate Eric Jean Baptiste, who is not considered a front-runner: $5 million
Maximum amount a presidential candidate is allowed to spend on the campaign, according to Haiti’s electoral decree: $2 million
Number of polling centers across the country: 1,508
Number of polling booths: 13,725
Average number of polling stations per voting center: 9.1
Accreditation badges distributed to political party monitors: 13,725
Date on which terms expired for the entire chamber of deputy’s a third of the Senate: January 12, 2015
Total registered voters: 5,871,450
Number of poll workers in October 25 elections: 41,175
Number of police deployed for October 25 elections: 10,000
Number of U.N. troops and police present: 2,502
Number of OAS observers deployed on October 25: 125
Number of observers deployed by civil society groups RNDDH, CNO and CONHANE, on October 25: 1,800
Sources: Miami Herald, Le National, Provisional Electoral Council, Haiti:Relief and Reconstruction Watch, Haiti Elections Blog
