Province None Population 84,263 (2016) Major settlements Ceuta Major settlement Ceuta | Autonomous community None Electorate 61,587 (2016) Seats 1 (1977–) Seat 1 (1977–) | |
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Created Spanish general election, 1977 | ||
Ceuta is one of the 52 electoral districts (Spanish: circunscripciones) used for the Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales.
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It has the second smallest electorate of all the 52 districts and together with the other African enclave of Melilla it is one of just two single member districts in Congress.
Boundaries and electoral system
Under Article 68.2 of the Spanish constitution the constituency must be a single member district and the boundaries must be the same as the Autonomous City of Ceuta and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Officially, the electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. The fact that Ceuta is a single member district means that in practice it uses the same first past the post system used in many anglophone countries like the United Kingdom and USA.
Under Article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18.
Eligibility
Article 67.3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from Regional Assemblies if elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible.