How voting works

No registration, no ballot. The three steps between you and election day, getting your CIN, registering at a CIV, and checking your name and your centre before 13 December, and the deadlines that close each one.

The CEP has published the official list of registration and voting centres, 1,406 of them at the time of this update. What a CIV is, how centres and bureaux are organised, how to find yours, and why you should check again before 13 December.

No two Haitians receive the same ballot. Five nested territories — the country, your département, your circonscription, your commune and your communal section — decide which races land on your paper, how many papers you are handed on each election day, and why the smallest races are the ones nobody recognises.

What happens between your front door and the ballot box: what to bring, what you'll see, what makes your ballot count, and what would spoil it.

Why there are two election dates, the two ways to win in December, including the 25-point rule almost nobody knows, and why local races are decided in a single round.

One map of Haiti's electoral system: what you elect directly, what those elections build indirectly, and why the smallest races matter to institutions far beyond your neighborhood.

Three similar-sounding terms, three different political arrangements. For the 2026–2027 elections, the CEP has approved 105 political structures: 17 groupements and 88 parties. Here is what each category means, and what you may see on your ballot.

All twenty-eight lines of the CEP's official calendar, reproduced with the Council's own numbering: the dates that actually require something from you, what happens between the two election days, and why the CEP warns that the whole timetable still depends on security and funding.