Elections in Armenia

Elections in Armenia gives information on election and election results in Armenia. Armenia has a multi-party system. After latest constitutional reform only a legislature is elected on national level.

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

2018 parliamentary election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	My Step Alliance	884,864	70.44	88	+83
	Prosperous Armenia	103,801	8.26	26	–5
	Bright Armenia	80,047	6.37	18	+15
	Republican Party	59,083	4.70	0	–58
	Armenian Revolutionary Federation	48,816	3.89	0	–7
	We Alliance	25,176	2.00	0	–1
	Sasna Tsrer	22,868	1.82	0	New
	Orinats Yerkir	12,393	0.99	0	0
	Citizen's Decision	8,514	0.68	0	New
	Christian-Democratic Rebirth Party	6,458	0.51	0	New
	National Progress Party	4,121	0.33	0	New
Total		1,256,141	100.00	132	+27
Valid votes		1,256,141	99.63
Invalid/blank votes		4,706	0.37
Total votes		1,260,847	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,593,140	48.62
Source: CEC

Latest presidential elections

Latest local elections

• 2018 Yerevan city council elections
• 2017 Yerevan city council elections

Upcoming elections

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

See also

• Central Electoral Commission of Armenia
• Elections in Artsakh
• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system
• List of political parties in Armenia
• Politics in Armenia
• Programs of political parties in Armenia

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".

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Central Electoral Commission of Armenia