Elections in Armenia

Electoral systems

National Assembly

The National Assembly consists of at least 101 seats and is elected using a two-tier party list proportional representation method.[1][2]

Half of the seats are assigned through closed lists and another half through open lists submitted in each of 13 territorial districts.

Four additional mandates are reserved national minorities, provided they are included in corresponding section of party lists. Together with this four mandates minimal number of seats reaches 105.

Parties need to pass 5% and alliances (blocs) 7% threshold respectively to be included in mandate distribution.

A party list can not include over 70% of representatives of the same sex and its every segment from the top (and a length of any multiple of 4) must include at least 25% members of each sex.

If neither party wins over 50% of mandates in the first round and no coalition with sufficient mandates is established within 6 days after the election results announcement a second round of elections will be carried out. Two best-performing political forces are allowed to participate in the second round. All mandates received as per first round will be preserved. The party which wins second round of elections will be given additional number of mandates to reach 54% of all seats.

If any party or bloc wins over 2/3 of mandates in the first round of elections sufficient additional mandates will be distributed among all other political forces represented in the parliament to ensure that at least 1/3 of all seats are held by forces other than the winning one.

This is stipulated by the Constitution requiring assignment of at least 1/3 of seats to the not ruling parties. Some argue, that when withdrawal of oppositional MPs leads to violation of that rule the ruling party shall be forced to call new snap elections. This is however not a consensus opinion and probably shall be dealt with in Constitutional Court.[3]

Due to additional seats given either to the winning political force or other ones total number of seats in National Assembly can grow above the minimal count and even exceed 200 in rare circumstances.[4]

Latest national elections
Main article: 2018 Armenian parliamentary election

2018 parliamentary election
Party Votes % Seats +/–
My Step Alliance 884,864 70.42 88 +83
Prosperous Armenia 103,801 8.26 26 –5
Bright Armenia 80,047 6.37 18 +15
Republican Party of Armenia59,083 4.70 0 –58
Armenian Revolutionary Federation48,816 3.88 0 –7
We Alliance (FD–H)25,176 2.00 0 –1
Sasna Tsrer22,868 1.82 0 New
Rule of Law12,393 0.99 0 0
Citizen's Decision8,514 0.68 0 New
Christian-Democratic Rebirth Party6,458 0.51 0 New
National Progress Party4,121 0.33 0 New
Invalid/blank votes5,111–––
Total1,261,105100132+27
Registered voters/turnout2,593,14048.63––
Source: CEC

Latest presidential elections
Main article: 2018 Armenian presidential election

Latest local elections

Upcoming elections
Main article: Next Armenian parliamentary election

The next Armenian parliamentary election is scheduled to occur on or before 9 December 2023.

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See also

References
  1. http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/armenia/293546?download=true
  2. http://www.arlis.am/DocumentView.aspx?DocID=109081
  3. "Newspaper: Prosperous Armenia Party threatens with snap parliamentary election". news.am. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  4. "Distribution of Armenian parliament mandates depending on elections outcome".
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