Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 25 May 2003. There were 56 constituency seats and 75 elected on a national basis using proportional representation.[1] They saw the Republican Party of Armenia emerge as the largest party, with 33 of the 131 seats. However, the elections were strongly criticized by international election monitors, who cited widespread fraud and noted that they fell short of democratic standards.[2]
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All 131 seats in the National Assembly 66 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Results
Party | Proportional | Constituency | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
Republican Party of Armenia | 280,363 | 23.37 | 23 | 124,950 | 11.82 | 10 | 33 | – | |
Justice Alliance | 163,203 | 13.60 | 14 | 0 | 14 | – | |||
Orinats Yerkir | 147,956 | 12.33 | 12 | 96,079 | 9.09 | 7 | 19 | +13 | |
Armenian Revolutionary Federation | 136,270 | 11.36 | 11 | 0 | 11 | +3 | |||
National Unity | 105,480 | 8.79 | 9 | 0 | 9 | New | |||
United Labour Party | 67,531 | 5.63 | 6 | 0 | 6 | New | |||
Liberal Democratic Union of Armenia | 55,443 | 4.62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Mighty Fatherland | 39,586 | 3.30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party | 34,108 | 2.84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Dignity, Democracy, Motherland | 33,605 | 2.80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Armenian Communist Party | 24,991 | 2.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –10 | |||
Union of Producers and Women | 24,388 | 2.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
People's Party of Armenia | 13,214 | 1.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
Law and Unity | 10,955 | 0.91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Liberals Alliance | 9,711 | 0.81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Christian Democratic Union | 8,057 | 0.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Armenian National Movement | 7,676 | 0.64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Justice Party | 6,473 | 0.54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Renewed Communist Party of Armenia | 6,200 | 0.52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
National Accord | 6,078 | 0.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Fist of the Armenian Braves | 3,438 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Hanrapetutyun Party | 15,298 | 1.45 | 1 | 1 | New | ||||
All Armenian Labour Party | 13,556 | 1.28 | 1 | 1 | New | ||||
Independents | 694,344 | 65.66 | 37 | 37 | +5 | ||||
None of the Above | 14,921 | 1.24 | – | – | – | ||||
Total | 1,199,647 | 100.00 | 75 | 56 | 131 | 0 | |||
Valid votes | 1,199,647 | 97.19 | 1,057,548 | 99.35 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 34,622 | 2.81 | 6,926 | 0.65 | |||||
Total votes | 1,234,269 | 100.00 | 1,064,474 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,340,744 | 52.73 | |||||||
Source: CEC, IPU, OSCE |
References
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