IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: North Macedonia

Republic of North Macedonia

2,086,720	22
Population (as of Feb. 8, 2019)	Elections in our database
1,814,263	56.49%
Registered Voters (as of July 22, 2020)	Average Turnout

Name	Official Name	Type
North Macedonian Assembly	Sobranie	Assembly
North Macedonian Presidency	None	Head of State

Description of government structure:

Chief of State: President Gjorge IVANOV
Head of Government: Prime Minister Zoran ZAEV
Assembly: Macedonia has a unicameral Assembly (Sobranie) with 123 seats.

Description of electoral system:

The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
Prime Minister is elected by parliament.
In the Assembly (Sobranie), 120 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms and 3 members are reserved for the diaspora community to serve 4-year terms.[1]

[1] The country is divided in 6 electoral districts, with a district magnitude of 20 members. No legal threshold is required for a party to enter the parliament. Votes are tabulated using the D'Hondt formula. At least 30 percent of the candidates on each party list must be of different gender. Three seats are reserved for the Macedonian diaspora.

Elections

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
North Macedonian Assembly	1998-10-23	1,112,704	1,572,976	70.74
North Macedonian Assembly	1998-11-01	774,362	1,106,513	69.98
North Macedonian Presidency	1999-10-31	1,120,087	1,610,340	69.56
North Macedonian Presidency	1999-11-14	1,112,153	1,610,340	69.06
North Macedonian Assembly	2002-09-15	1,218,014	1,664,297	73.18
North Macedonian Presidency	2004-04-14	935,373	1,695,103	55.18
North Macedonian Presidency	2004-04-28	935,373	1,695,103	55.18
Referendum	2004-11-07	454,347	1,709,536	26.58
North Macedonian Assembly	2006-07-05	974,891	1,741,449	55.98
North Macedonian Assembly	2008-06-01	1,015,164	1,779,116	57.06
North Macedonian Presidency	2009-03-22	1,011,441	1,792,082	56.44
North Macedonian Presidency	2009-04-05	764,039	1,792,082	42.63
North Macedonian Assembly	2011-06-05	1,156,049	1,821,122	63.48
North Macedonian Presidency	2014-04-13	869,137	1,779,572	48.84
North Macedonian Presidency	2014-04-27	967,434	1,779,572	54.36
North Macedonian Assembly	2014-04-27	1,140,202	1,780,128	64.05
North Macedonian Assembly	2016-12-11	1,191,854	1,784,416	66.79
Referendum	2018-09-30	666,743	1,806,336	36.91
North Macedonian Presidency	2019-04-21	755,702	1,808,131	41.79
North Macedonian Assembly	2020-07-15	943,750	1,814,263	52.02
North Macedonian Presidency	2024-04-24	-	-	-
North Macedonian Assembly	2024-05-08	-	-	-

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