If before the declaration of result, a candidate on a party list or any individual candidate dies but the poll remains contested, the election will continue as normal.
The Returning Officer (RO) must take reasonable steps to publicise the name of the candidate, the fact of their death, whether they were an individual candidate or a party list candidate and, if they were standing on behalf of a registered party, the name of the party.
The RO should publicise the death by placing notices outside and inside the polling stations in the constituency.
If the RO receives proof and is satisfied before the result is announced that a candidate on a party list or an individual candidate has died and as a result the poll has become uncontested, the election must be stopped and validly nominated candidates are deemed elected. If this happens before polling begins, the RO must countermand the notice of poll. If the poll is underway or the counting is being undertaken, the poll or the count must be abandoned.1
If the poll remains contested after the death of a candidate, the election continues. The death has no effect on the validity of the election and the return of any other candidate.