ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ 45C Application of Part XIA, allocation of party-list seats and disqualification of votes for purposes of party-list elections (1) This Part applies to the election of party-list candidates and to the procedure for filling of vacancies in party-list seats. (2) The nomination of party-list candidates under this Part shall take place on the same day as the nomination of the constituency candidates under section 46, and at the same places as are fixed in terms of section 38(1)(b) for the sitting of nomination courts to receive nominations for constituency candidates in the provinces concerned. (3) The ten provinces into which Zimbabwe is, before the fixed date, divided in terms of the Provincial Councils and Administration Act [Chapter 29:11], namely— (a) Bulawayo Province; and (b) Harare Province; and (c) Manicaland Province; and (d) Mashonaland Central Province; and (e) Mashonaland East Province; and (f) Mashonaland West Province; and (g) Masvingo Province; and (h) Matabeleland North Province; and (i) Matabeleland South Province; and (j) Midlands Province; shall each constitute an electoral province. (4) Each electoral province shall be allocated six seats in the Senate and six seats reserved for women in the National Assembly, and each electoral province that is a non-metropolitan province shall be allocated ten seats in the provincial council for that electoral province. (5) The formula prescribed in the Eighth Schedule for the election of party-list candidates is calculated on the basis of the total number of valid votes cast for all the constituency candidates in the electoral province concerned, excluding any valid votes cast for constituency candidates— (a) not belonging to any political party; and (b) belonging to any political party which has opted not to field any party-list candidates for the Senate, National Assembly or provincial council, as the case may be, in the electoral province in question. [Section inserted by s. 19 of Act No. 6 of 2014] 45D Disqualifications for nomination as party-list candidate (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not be qualified for nomination as a party-list candidate for an electoral province in terms of section 45C if he or she— (a) is not registered on a voters roll in a ward belonging to a constituency in the electoral province; or (b) is nominated, and has accepted to be nominated, as a party-list candidate by more than one political party; or (c) in the case of a party-list candidate for election as a Senator, is also nominated as a party-list candidate for election to the National Assembly or the provincial council, or as a candidate for election as a constituency member of the National Assembly, or as a councillor; or (d) in the case of a party-list candidate for election as a member of the National Assembly, is also nominated as a party-list candidate for election as a Senator or the provincial council, or as a candidate for election as a constituency member of the National Assembly, or as a councillor; or 61