2021 Armenian parliamentary election

2021 Armenian parliamentary election

20 June 2021

Minimum 101 seats.

Party Leader Current seats My Step Alliance Nikol Pashinyan PAP Gagik Tsarukyan Bright Armenia Edmon Marukyan Independents - Incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Civil Contract (My Step Alliance)

The next Armenian parliamentary election is scheduled to occur on 20 June 2021. The elections were initially scheduled for 9 December 2023, but were moved forward due to the ongoing political crisis in Armenia following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War.

The seventh National Assembly of Armenia was officially dissolved on 5 May 2021 and the eighth Assembly will be elected.

Electoral system

See also: Elections in Armenia § National Assembly

The 101 members of the National Assembly are elected by party-list proportional representation. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with an election threshold of 5% for parties and 7% for multi-party alliances. However, a minimum of three political groups will enter parliament, regardless of the performance of the third-best performing party or alliance.

Seats are allocated to parties using their national share of the vote, with half awarded to those on the national list and half to those who receive the most preference votes on the district lists. Four seats are reserved for national minorities (Assyrians, Kurds, Russians and Yazidis), with parties having separate lists for the four groups. A gender quota requires at least 30% of a list to be male or female, and lists can't include more than three consecutive members of the same gender.

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 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 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.

Schedule

Participating parties and alliances are required to submit applications with all supporting documentation by 18:00 on 26 May. Cancellations will be accepted until 10 June.

The official election campaign will take place from 7 to 18 June.

Voting will take place on 20 June from 08:00 to 20:00.

Opinion polls

Date	Pollster	My Step	BHK	LHK	HHK	ARF	ST	AD	HP
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26–29 Mar 2021	MPG	31.7	4.4	2.7	2.4	2.1	0.5	-	0.4
15–17 Feb 2021	MPG	33.1	4.4	2.6	2.2	2.2	0.4	-	0.7
8–16 Feb 2021	IRI/Breavis	33	3	1	1	1	1	-	-
10–27 June 2020	MPG	55	6	5	1.4	1.8	0.1	-	-
9 Nov–1 Dec 2019	MPG [1]	61.3	14.2	3.9	1.5	2.5	1.1	-	-
20 Sep–13 Oct 2019	IRI/Breavis	55	19	6	4	3	-	1	1
6–31 May 2019	IRI/Breavis	59	12	4	5	4	1	-	-
30 Apr–9 May 2019	MPG	60	11.9	4.6	1.6	1.6	1.21	-	-
9 Dec 2018	Parliamentary elections	70.42	8.26	6.37	4.70	3.88	1.82	2.00

See also

• Elections in Armenia
• List of political parties in Armenia
• Programs of political parties in Armenia