Cameroonian parliamentary election, 2019

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Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Cameroon in 2019.^[1] On 15 June 2018, the BBC obtained a letter from Cameroonian President Paul Biya to the leader of the country's senate, apparently seeking to delay the elections until October 2019.^[2] On 2 July, the parliament accepted and voted to extend its mandate by twelve months.^[3]

Electoral system

The 180 members of the National Assembly are elected from 58 single- and multi-member constituencies based on the departments.^[4] In single-member constituencies, first-past-the-post voting is used. In multi-member constituencies, a modified form of closed list proportional representation is used, in which a party receiving over 50% of the vote in a constituency wins all the seats, but if no party receives over 50% of the vote, the party with the most votes is awarded half the seats and any other party receiving over 5% of the vote receives a proportional share of the remaining half of the seats based on the largest remainder method and Hare quota.^[5]

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