Armenian parliamentary election, 2018

Armenian parliamentary election, 2018
Armenia
December 2018

Party Leader % Seats ±
Republican Party Serzh Sargsyan
Prosperous Armenia Gagik Tsarukyan
Way Out Alliance Nikol Pashinyan
ARF Armen Rustamyan
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before
Nikol Pashinyan
Civil Contract (Way Out Alliance)
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Snap parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia in early December 2018.[1][2][3][4] They will be the first elections since the revolution in April and May 2018. The country's former ruling party, which continues to command a majority in the National Assembly, has called for elections to take place in summer 2019 in order to give the parties time to prepare and make amendments to Armenia's electoral code.[5][6]

Electoral system

The 101 members of the National Assembly are elected by party-list proportional representation. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with an election threshold of 5% for parties and 7% for multi-party alliances.[7][8]

The ballot paper has two sections; one of which is a closed list of candidates for the party at the national level and the other an open list of candidates for the constituency (of which there are 13) that the voter is voting in. Voters vote for a party at the national level and can also give a preference vote to any of candidates of the same party in a district list.[8] Seats are allocated to parties using the share of the vote at the national level, with half awarded to those in the national list and half to those who receive the most preference votes in the district lists.[8] Four seats are reserved for national minorities (Assyrians, Kurds, Russians and Yazidis), with parties having separate lists for the four groups.[8] A gender quota requires at least 30% of a list to be male or female, and nationwide lists cannot include more than three consecutive members of the same gender.

If a party receives a majority of the vote but wins less than 54% of the seats, they will be awarded additional seats to give them 54% of the total. If a party wins over two-thirds of the seats, the losing parties will be given extra seats reducing the share of seats of winning party to two-thirds. If a government is not formed within six days of the preliminary results being released, a run-off round of voting between the top two parties must be held within 28 days. The party that wins the run-off will be given the seats required for a 54% majority, with all seats allocated in the first round preserved.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Exclusive: Armenian PM Pashinyan to resign for early election, he tells FRANCE 24 - France 24". France 24. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  2. ↑ "Пашинян: Досрочные парламентские выборы в Армении пройдут в декабре: EADaily". EADaily (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  3. ↑ "Armenia to hold snap parliamentary elections in December". Public Radio of Armenia. 2018-10-02. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  4. ↑ Nikol Pashinyan calls the timing of his resignation
  5. ↑ "RPA: Prime MInister broke his promise". news.am. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  6. ↑ "Pashinyan and Parliament At Odds Over Early Snap Elections as ARF Loses Ministerial Footing". The Armenian Weekly. 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  7. ↑ All Change in Armenia Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8 December 2015
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Parliamentary elections 2 April 2017: OSCE/ODIHR needs assessment mission report OSCE
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