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2024 Georgian parliamentary election. Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Georgia on 26 October 2024. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The elections are held under the rules passed in 2017 through the constitutional amendments which shifted the electoral system towards a fully proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold.
State representatives serve two-year terms in the Georgia House of Representatives. The primary election was held on May 24, 2022, with a primary run-off held on June 21, 2022. The Democrats gained two seats, decreasing the Republican majority to 101 out of 180 seats.
The State Council restored Georgia's Constitution of 1921, announcing 4 August 1992 as the day of parliamentary elections. A session hall of the Parliament of Georgia in Kutaisi. On 24 August 1995, the newly elected Parliament adopted a new Constitution. Georgia now has a semi-presidential system with a unicameral parliament. [2]
With around 99% of the votes in, data from the Central Election Commission (CEC) gave the ruling Georgian Dream party 48.07% of the vote and the largest opposition party United National Movement ...
On 19 April 2021, the ruling Georgian Dream party and the opposition signed an agreement, which ended a six-month political crisis stemming from the contested 2020 parliamentary elections. The agreement stipulated snap parliamentary elections if the Georgian Dream party would garner less than 43% of the vote in the October 2021 local elections.
The 2020–2021 Georgian political crisis was a political crisis in Georgia that resulted from allegations by opposition parties that the 2020 Georgian parliamentary election was rigged. The opposition accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of election fraud and did not recognize the results. They announced protests and parliamentary boycott.
A Georgia voter heads to the polls during 2022's midterm election [Getty Images] ... Georgia's elections board voted 3-2 to require the hand count, despite the objections of state officials and ...
The proportional part of these elections were held under a natural threshold, meaning that any party winning at least 0.67% of the vote was entitled a seat in Parliament, leading to the most multi-partisan Parliament in Georgia's history, with 20 political parties and four electoral blocs winning seats.