Next Armenian parliamentary election
Armenia
By 2026
All 107 seats in the National Assembly
(plus additional and leveling seats)
54 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader Current seats
Civil Contract Nikol Pashinyan 71
Armenia Alliance Robert Kocharyan 29
I Have Honor Alliance Arthur Vanetsyan 6
Incumbent Prime Minister
Nikol Pashinyan
Civil Contract

The next parliamentary elections are expected to be held in Armenia by 2026.[1]

Electoral system

The members of the unicameral National Assembly are elected by party-list proportional representation. The number of seats is at least 101, and rises when allocation of additional seats is required. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with an election threshold of 5% for parties and 7% for multi-party alliances.[2][3] However, a minimum of three political groups will enter parliament, regardless of the performance of the third-best performing party or alliance.[4]

Seats are allocated to parties using their national share of the vote. Four seats are reserved for national minorities (Assyrians, Kurds, Russians and Yazidis), with parties having separate lists for the four groups.[3] A gender quota requires any top section of a party list to include at least 33% candidates of each gender.[5]

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 one party wins over two-thirds of the seats, the losing parties which made it over the threshold will be given extra seats reducing the share of seats of the winning party to two-thirds. If a government is not formed within six days of the preliminary results being released, a run-off round between the top two parties must be held on the 28th day. The party that wins the run-off will be given the additional seats required for a 54% majority, with all seats allocated in the first round preserved.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Armenia". European Forum. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  2. ↑ All Change in Armenia Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8 December 2015
  3. 1 2 3 Parliamentary elections 2 April 2017: OSCE/ODIHR needs assessment mission report OSCE
  4. ↑ "Ովքե՞ր են ԱԺ-ում հայտնված նոր պատգամավորները․ նախնական տվյալներ". factor.arm (in Armenian). 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Manougian, Harout (28 August 2018). "Հայաստանի ընտրական նոր օրենսգիրքը. կանանց և ազգային փոքրամասնությունների քվոտաներ". EVN Report (in Armenian). Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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