2003 Armenian parliamentary election

2003 Armenian parliamentary election
	25 May 2003
	All 131 seats in the National Assembly; 66 seats needed for a majority
Andranik Margaryan; Republican	Andranik Margaryan; Republican

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]

Results


Party		Proportional			Constituency			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total 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

Results Election Guide
2007 Elections improved from previous ones St. Petersburg Times

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[1] Results Election Guide

[2] 2007 Elections improved from previous ones St. Petersburg Times

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