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(1)An election petition, filed under section 150, shall be tried in open court.
(2)The High Court or chief magistrate shall proceed to hear and determine the matter within three months after the day on which the petition was filed and may, for that purpose, suspend any other matter pending before court.
(3)After due inquiry, the court hearing an election petition may—
(a)dismiss the petition;
(b)declare a candidate other than the candidate declared elected earlier to have been validly elected; or
(c)set aside the election and order a new election.
(4)The court, before coming to a decision under subsection (3), may where applicable order a recount of the votes cast.
(5)At the conclusion of the trial of an election petition, the court shall determine whether the respondent was duly elected or whether any, and if so which, person other than the respondent was or is entitled to be declared duly elected, and if the court determines that—
(a)the respondent was duly elected, the election shall be and remain valid as if no petition had been presented against the respondent's election;
(b)the respondent was not duly elected but that some other person was or is entitled to be declared duly elected—
(i)the respondent shall be ordered to vacate his or her seat; and
(ii)the court shall notify the Electoral Commission and the speaker or chairperson of the relevant council of its determination, and the Electoral Commission shall thereupon, by notice in the Gazette, declare that other person duly elected with effect from the day of the determination by the court;
(c)the respondent was not duly elected and that no other person was or is entitled to be declared duly elected—
(i)the seat of the respondent shall be declared vacant; and
(ii)the court shall immediately notify the Electoral Commission and the speaker or chairperson of the relevant council of its determination, and the Electoral Commission shall arrange a fresh election in the relevant constituency in accordance with section 132.
You have the right to an open court hearing for any local government election petition you file. The court must decide your case within three months. ...
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