Armenian parliamentary election, 2017

Parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia in May 2017. They will be the first elections after the constitutional referendum in 2015 that approved reforms to become a parliamentary republic.

Electoral system

At the time of the previous elections in 2012, the National Assembly had 131 seats, of which 41 were elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 90 elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with an electoral threshold of 5%.^[1] However, a referendum in 2015 approved constitutional amendments reducing the number of seats in the National Assembly to 101, all of which will be elected by proportional representation.^[2]

Campaign

The following parties won seats in the 2012 elections and will, most likely, participate in the 2017 election:

• Republican Party of Armenia
• Prosperous Armenia
• Armenian National Congress
• Rule of Law
• Armenian Revolutionary Federation
• Heritage

Extra-parliamentary parties that will possibly participate in the 2017 election:

• Armenian Communist Party (participated in all parliamentary elections since 1990)
• Civil Contract^[3]
• Luminous Armenia^[4]
• Hayazn^[5]

References

1. Electoral system IPU
2. Armenia’s National Assembly Approves Proposed Constitutional Reforms The Armenian Weekly, 5 October 2015
3. Փաշինյանի «Քաղաքացիական պայմանագիր» կուսակցությունը կմասնակցի ԱԺ առաջիկա ընտրություններին
4. «Լուսավոր Հայաստան»-ը կմասնակցի հաջորդ խորհրդարանական ընտրություններին
5. «Հայազն»-ը 2017 թվականի ընտրություններին կմասնակցի «ոչ-ոչ»-ի քաղաքականությամբ