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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMB’s and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

(AnnexURe 2)

eLectoRAL sYsteMs oF A-WeB MeMBeR coUntRIes

S. Country Body System Seats per District Total seats Threshold
No.

Modified Two-round system
President (winner with 50% of votes or 40%
and a 10% lead over the second)
12 Bolivia
Chamber of Deputies plurality vote 1 / 5-29 77 3%
Closed-list Proportional
Senate 4 36
Representation
3 (one each
Presidency of Bosnia FPTP 1 of the three
Bosnia and and Herzegovina major ethnic
13 groups)
Herzegovina
House of
Representatives Party list PR: Sainte-Laguë method 14, 28 42
President Two-round system
Party list PR: Open lists: D’Hondt
Chamber of Deputies 8–70 513 1 Hare quota
14 Brazil method
1 or 2 (alternates each
Senate Plurality Vote 81
election)
President PR 240
15 Bulgaria Party list PR: Closed lists: D’Hondt
National Assembly 4–14 240 4%
method
President Two-round system
16 Burkina Faso National Assembly of Party list PR: Largest
Burkina Faso remainder (Hare quota) 2-16 127
directly elected by universal
President suffrage with absolute majority for 1
7 year term, once renewable
17 Burundi
proportional representation from
National Assembly closed multi-ethnic party lists from 4–11 118 2%
each province
18 Cambodia National Assembly PR: D’Hondt method 1-18 125
President single-round majority ballot
coexistence: FPTP in single-
member constituencies; in
19 Cameroon multi-member constituencies:
National Assembly party with over 50% of vote gets 1–7 180 5%
all seats, otherwise highest party
gets half, rest distributed by Largest
remainder (Hare quota)
20 Canada House of Commons FPTP 1 338
President Two-round system
Chamber of
21 Colombia Party list PR: D’Hondt method 2–18 171
Representatives
Senate Party list PR: D’Hondt method 100 + 2 (indigenous) 108

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