Morocco - 01/01/2024 - Local level

• The territorial jurisdiction of the prefecture, province or district prefecture constitutes the basis for the electoral division of the region. At the level of each prefecture, province or district prefecture, two electoral districts are created, the territorial jurisdiction of each of which encompasses the territorial jurisdiction of the prefecture of the province or of the district prefecture concerned. One of the two electoral districts is reserved for women without being deprived of their right to run for office in the other electoral district. (Law on the election of council members of local authorities, article 76)
• For provincial elections, each list of candidates includes as many names as seats to be filled in the council of the prefecture or the province. The list of candidates is made up of two parts; the second part of the list of candidates is exclusively reserved for women candidates, without however being deprived of their right to stand for the seats reserved for the first part of the list of candidates. The number of seats reserved for the second part is set at one third of the seats to be filled at the level of the council of the prefecture or the province, by rounding this number, if necessary, to the next whole number. (Law on the election of council members of local authorities, article 110)
• Seats are reserved for women for municipal elections, the number of which is fixed according to the procedures provided for in article 128bis below. (Law on the election of council members of local authorities, article 127)
• The number of seats reserved for women is set as follows:
1. For councils of municipalities whose members are elected by uninominal ballot: five (5) seats in the council of each municipality. These five seats are attached to the communal electoral constituencies which respectively have the largest number of voters registered on the electoral list of the commune drawn up under the last revision of the said lists. These constituencies are fixed, for each municipality, by order of the Minister of the Interior published in the Official Bulletin at least thirty days before the date of the ballot. The candidates declared elected for the respective seats are full members of the councils concerned;
2. For the councils of the communes whose members are elected by list system and not divided into districts: one third of the seats to be filled at the level of the council of the commune, by rounding this number, if necessary, to the greater integer;
3. For the councils of municipalities divided into arrondissements: one third of the seats to be filled at municipal council level, for each arrondissement, rounding this number, if necessary, to the next whole number, provided that it is not less than 3 seats for each borough, and one-third of the seats to be filled at the level of each borough council, rounding this number, if necessary, to the next whole number.
The seats referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 above are deducted from the number of seats fixed for the communes concerned in articles 127 and 128 above. The seats reserved for women, as indicated above, do not deprive them of their right to stand for other seats. (Law on the election of council members of local authorities, Article 128bis)