Voting method

ConstitutionNet, Bermuda - Parliamentary Election Act 1978, accessed 3 March 2025

Part i. Preliminary

Section 2. Meaning of resident and ordinarily resident

1. For the purpose of this Act, the place where a person is ordinarily resident shall be taken to be the place where he is resident unless he satisfies the Registrar that he is ordinarily resident in some other place, 

2. Subject to this section, the place where a person is resident shall be taken to be — (a) if the person is a married person, the place where his family lives and sleeps and to which, when away he intends to return or, if he is living apart from his family with the intent of remaining apart from it, then the place where he lives and sleeps and to which when away he intends to return, without regard to the place where he takes his meals or is employed; and (b) if the person is unmarried, then the place where he lives and sleeps the majority of the time. 

3. No person shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed to be resident in lodgings, or a hostel, refuge or similar institution conducted for charitable or benevolent purposes, unless that person has been in continuous residence in such lodgings or such hostel, refuge or similar institution for at least ten days immediately preceding the qualifying date and intends to live there indefinitely.  

4. No person shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be resident in a hospital, a home for the aged, or other institution for the treatment of any chronic illness or disability unless that person has been

Part ii. The right of representation

Section 4. Entitlement to vote

1. Subject to subsection (2), a person is entitled to vote at a parliamentary election in a constituency if, and only if, on the polling day, he is registered as an elector in the parliamentary register of that constituency. 

2. Notwithstanding that a person may be registered in the parliamentary register of a constituency, he is not entitled to vote at a parliamentary election in that constituency if, on the polling day — (a) he has ceased to be a Commonwealth citizen; or (b) he has ceased to be ordinarily resident in Bermuda; or (c) he is registered in the parliamentary register of another constituency; or (d) he is disqualified from voting at a parliamentary election under section 71; or (e) he is in prison or detained in a senior training school or having been sentenced to a term of imprisonment, preventive detention or corrective training the adjudged term of his sentence has not yet expired, whether or not he is then at large on licence, unless he has been granted a free pardon or has been granted remission under section 10 of the Prisons Act 1979 [title 10 item 32]; or (f) he is a person suffering from mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1968 [title 11 item 36] or is otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any statutory provision.