IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: Armenia

Name	Official Name	Type
Armenian National Assembly	Azgayin Zhoghov	Assembly
Armenian Presidency	None	Head of State

Chief of State: President Armen SARKISSIAN (since 9 April 2018)
Head of Government: Deputy Prime Ministers: Mher GRIGORYAN and Tigran AVINYAN*
Assembly: Armenia has a unicameral National Assembly (Azgayin Zhoghov) with 131 seats.

The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
The Prime Minister is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament.
In the National Assembly (Azgayin Zhoghov), 90 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms and 41 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.
- There is a five percent threshold for the party-list tier.

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Armenian Presidency	1998-03-16	1,456,109	2,300,816	63.29
Armenian Presidency	1998-03-30	1,567,702	2,293,636	68.35
Armenian National Assembly	1999-05-30	1,137,133	2,198,544	51.72
Armenian Presidency	2003-02-19	1,463,499	2,315,410	63.21
Armenian Presidency	2003-03-05	1,563,071	2,331,507	67.04
Referendum	2003-05-25	1,216,581	2,334,993	52.1
Armenian National Assembly	2003-05-25	1,188,256	2,327,811	51.05
Referendum	2005-11-27	1,514,307	2,317,462	65.34
Armenian National Assembly	2007-05-12	1,375,733	2,317,810	59.35
Armenian Presidency	2008-02-19	1,668,464	2,312,945	72.14
Armenian National Assembly	2012-05-06	1,572,858	2,522,906	62.34
Armenian Presidency	2013-02-18	1,521,261	2,509,434	60.62
Referendum	2015-12-06	1,296,368	2,567,047	50.5
Armenian National Assembly	2017-04-02	1,574,947	2,588,590	60.84
Armenian National Assembly	2018-12-09	1,261,105	2,593,140	48.63
Referendum	2020-04-05	-	-	-
Armenian National Assembly	2021-06-20	1,281,375	2,595,334	49.37

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