With four years having elapsed since Brian Cookson stood against Pat McQuaid at the last UCI presidential election, and with changes to the UCI's constitution now making it easier to secure the presidency, Cyclingnews asked Feargal McKay to break down the process by which the UCI's president is elected.
According to its last annual report (2015) the UCI represents “the interests of 185 National Federations, five Continental Confederations, more than 1,500 professional riders, more than half a million licensed competitors, several million cycling enthusiasts and two billion bicycle users all over the world.” If you're reading this the chances are high that you are one of those two billion bicycle users worldwide, possibly even one of those half a million licensed competitors. A question you might be asking yourself, then, is how the UCI will take into account your wishes when it comes to any presidential election that might take place at its 186th Congress in Bergen, Norway, on September 21st.
Who gets to vote?
Article 4 of the UCI's Constitution sets out who the UCI's members are, and it is not any of the individual cyclists whose interests the UCI claims to represent: “The members of the UCI shall be the national federations accepted by the Congress as being the representative organisation for the sport of cycling in general in the country of that national federation.”
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Rather than simply giving each of those national federations votes based on the size of their membership, the UCI uses an electoral college system in which the interests of the 185 member federations are represented by five continental confederations.
Those five continental confederations, and the number of votes they can cast, are as follows:
- Union Européenne de Cyclisme, currently headed by David Lappartient, has 15 votes (up from 14 at the last election)
- Confederation Africaine de Cyclisme, currently headed by Mohamed Wagih Azzam, has nine votes (up from seven votes four years ago)
- Asian Cycling Confederation, currently headed by Hee Wook Cho, has nine votes (the same as 2013)
- Confederacion Panamericana de Ciclismo, currently headed by José Manuel Pelaez, has nine votes (the same as 2013)
- Oceanian Cycling Confederation, currently headed by Tracey Gaudry, has three votes (the same as 2013)
How many votes does it take to win?
A majority of the votes cast – more than 50 per cent – wins the election. If all of the available 45 votes are cast, that's 23 votes. If there's more than two candidates and no one secures the necessary number of votes in the first round of voting then the top two go into a second round. If that ends up tied then “the decision will be made by toss of a coin.”
Is the voting public and do we get to know who voted for whom?
Who can stand?
Is there likely to be an election in 2017?
Is that all you need to know?
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