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3 for overseas
  territories, and 12 for French nationals abroad; starting in 2008,
  members will be indirectly elected by an electoral college to serve
  six-year terms, with one-half elected every three years; and the
  National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (577 seats, 555 for
  metropolitan France, 15 for overseas departments, 7 for
  dependencies; members are elected by popular vote under a
  single-member majority system to serve five-year terms)
  elections: Senate - last held 26 September 2004 (next to be held in
  September 2008); National Assembly - last held 10 and 17 June 2007
  (next to be held in June 2012)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - UMP 156, PS 97, UDF (now MoDem) 33, PCF 23, RDSE 15, other
  7; National Assembly - percent of vote by party - UMP 46.37%, PS
  42.25%, miscellaneous left wing parties 2.47%, PCF 2.28%, NC 2.12%,
  PRG 1.65%, miscellaneous right wing parties 1.17%, the Greens 0.45,
  other 1.24%; seats by party - UMP 313, PS 186, NC 22, miscellaneous
  left wing parties 15, PCF 15, miscellaneous right wing parties 9,
  PRG 7, the Greens 4, other 6

French Polynesia
  unicameral Territorial Assembly or Assemblee
  Territoriale (57 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve
  five-year terms)
  elections: last held 27 January 2008 (first round) and 10 February
  2008 (second round) (next to be held NA 2013)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Our Home alliance
  45.2%, Union for Democracy alliance 37.2%, Popular Rally (Tahoeraa
  Huiraatira) 17.2% other 0.5%; seats by party - Our Home alliance 27,
  Union for Democracy alliance 20, Popular Rally 10
  note: one seat was elected to the French Senate on 27 September 1998
  (next to be held in September 2007); results - percent of vote by
  party - NA; seats by party - NA; two seats were elected to the
  French National Assembly on 9 June-16 June 2002 (next to be held in
  2007); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  UMP/RPR 1, UMP 1

Gabon
  bicameral legislature consists of the Senate (91 seats;
  members elected by members of municipal councils and departmental
  assemblies to serve six-year terms) and the National Assembly or
  Assemblee Nationale (120 seats; members are elected by direct,
  popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: Senate - last held 26 January and 9 February 2003 (next
  to be held by January 2009); National Assembly - last held 17 and 24
  December 2006 (next to be held in December 2011)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - PDG 53, RNB 20, PGP 4, ADERE 3, RDP 1, CLR 1, independents
  9; National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party
  - PDG 82, RPG 8, UPG 8, UGDD 4, ADERE 3, CLR 2, PGP-Ndaot 2, PSD 2,
  independents 4, others 5

Gambia, The
  unicameral National Assembly (53 seats; 48 members
  elected by popular vote, 5 appointed by the president; to serve
  five-year terms)
  elections: last held 25 January 2007 (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  APRC 47, UDP 4, NADD 1, independent 1

Georgia
  unicameral Parliament or Parlamenti (also known as Supreme
  Council or Umaghlesi Sabcho) (235 seats; 150 members elected by
  proportional representation, 75 from single-seat constituencies, and
  10 represent displaced persons from Abkhazia; to serve five-year
  terms)
  elections: last held 21 May 2008 (next to be held in spring 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - National
  Movement-Democratic Front 59.2%, National Council-New Rights 17.7%,
  other parties 23.1%; seats by party - National Movement-Democratic
  Front 120, National Council-New Rights 16

Germany
  bicameral Parliament or Parlament consists of the Federal
  Assembly or Bundestag (614 seats; elected by popular vote under a
  system combining direct and proportional representation; a party
  must win 5% of the national vote or three direct mandates to gain
  proportional representation and caucus recognition; to serve
  four-year terms) and the Federal Council or Bundesrat (69 votes;
  state governments are directly represented by votes; each has three
  to six votes depending on population and are required to vote as a
  block)
  elections: Bundestag - last held on 18 September 2005 (next to be
  held no later than autumn 2009); note - there are no elections for
  the Bundesrat; composition is determined by the composition of the
  state-level governments; the composition of the Bundesrat has the
  potential to change any time one of the 16 states holds an election
  election results: Bundestag - percent of vote by party - CDU/CSU
  35.2%, SPD 34.3%, FDP 9.8%, Left 8.7%, Greens 8.1%, other 3.9%;
  seats by party - CDU/CSU 225, SPD 222, FDP 61, Left 53, Greens 51,
  independents 2

Ghana
  unicameral Parliament (230 seats; members are elected by
  direct, popular vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 7 December 2004 (next to be held 7 December
  2008)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  NPP 128, NDC 94, PNC 4, CPP 3, independent 1

Gibraltar
  unicameral Parliament (18 seats: 17 members elected by
  popular vote, 1 for the Speaker appointed by Parliament; to serve
  four-year terms)
  elections: last held 11 October 2007 (next to be held not later than
  October 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - GSD 49.3%, GSLP 31.8%,
  Gibraltar Liberal Party 13.6%; seats by party - GSD 10, GSLP 4,
  Gibraltar Liberal Party 3

Greece
  unicameral Parliament or Vouli ton Ellinon (300 seats;
  members are elected by direct popular vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: elections last held 16 September 2007 (next to be held by
  2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - ND 41.8%, PASOK 38.1%,
  KKE 8.2%, Synaspismos 5%, LAOS 3.8%, other 3.1%; seats by party - ND
  152, PASOK 102, KKE 22, Synaspismos 14, LAOS 10

Greenland
  unicameral Parliament or Landstinget (31 seats; members
  are elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional
  representation to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held on 15 November 2005 (next to be held by
  December 2009)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Siumut 30.7%,
  Demokratiit 22.8%, IA 22.6%, Atassut Party 19.1%; Katusseqatigiit
  4.1%, other 0.7%; seats by party - Siumut 10, Demokratiit 7, IA 7,
  Atassut 6, Katusseqatigiit 1
  note: two representatives were elected to the Danish Parliament or
  Folketing on 13 November 2007 (next to be held in November 2011);
  percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Siumut 1, Inuit
  Ataqatigiit 1

Grenada
  bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (13 seats, 10
  appointed by the government and 3 by the leader of the opposition)
  and the House of Representatives (15 seats; members are elected by
  popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held on 8 July 2008 (next to be held in 2013)
  election results: House of Representatives - percent of vote by
  party - NA; seats by party - NDC 11, NNP 4

Guam
  unicameral Legislature (15 seats; members are elected by
  popular vote to serve two-year terms)
  elections: last held 7 November 2006 (next to be held in November
  2008)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  Republican Party 8, Democratic Party 7
  note: Guam elects one nonvoting delegate to the US House of
  Representatives; election last held 7 November 2006 (next to be held
  in November 2008); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - Democratic Party 1

Guatemala
  unicameral Congress of the Republic or Congreso de la
  Republica (158 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve
  four-year terms)
  elections: last held 9 September 2007 (next to be held in September
  2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - UNE 30.4%, GANA 23.4%,
  PP 18.9%, FRG 9.5%, PU 5.1%, other 12.7%; seats by party - UNE 48,
  GANA 37, PP 30, FRG 15, PU 8, CASA 5, EG 4, PAN 4, UCN 4, URNG 2, UD
  1

Guernsey
  unicameral States of Deliberation (45 seats; members are
  elected by popular vote for four years); note - Alderney and Sark
  have parliaments
  elections: last held 23 April 2008 (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - all independents

Guinea
  unicameral People's National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale
  Populaire (114 seats; members are elected by a mixed system of
  direct popular vote and proportional party lists)
  elections: last held 30 June 2002 (next to be held in 2008)
  election results: percent of vote by party - PUP 61.6%, UPR 26.6%,
  other 11.8%; seats by party - PUP 85, UPR 20, other 9
  note: legislative elections were due in 2007 but have been postponed

Guinea-Bissau
  unicameral National People's Assembly or Assembleia
  Nacional Popular (100 seats; members are elected by popular vote to
  serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 28 March 2004 (next to be held 16 November 2008)
  election results: percent of vote by party - PAIGC 31.5%, PRS 24.8%,
  PUSD 16.1%, UE 4.1%, APU 1.3%, 13 other parties 22.2%; seats by
  party - PAIGC 45, PRS 35, PUSD 17, UE 2, APU 1

Guyana
  unicameral National Assembly (65 seats; members elected by
  popular vote, also not more than 4 non-elected non-voting ministers
  and 2 non-elected non-voting parliamentary secretaries appointed by
  the president; to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 28 August 2006 (next to be held by August 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - PPP/C 54.6%, PNC/R 34%,
  AFC 8.1%, other 3.3%; seats by party - PPP/C 36, PNC/R 22, AFC 5,
  other 2

Haiti
  bicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale consists of
  the Senate (30 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve
  six-year terms; one-third elected every two years) and the Chamber
  of Deputies (99 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve
  four-year terms); note - in reestablishing the Senate, the candidate
  in each department receiving the most votes in the last election
  serves six years, the candidate with the second most votes serves
  four years, and the candidate with the third most votes serves two
  years
  elections: Senate - last held 21 April 2006 with run-off elections
  on 3 December 2006 (next regular election, for one third of seats,
  to be held in 2008); Chamber of Deputies - last held 21 April 2006
  with run-off elections on 3 December 2006 and 29 April 2007 (next
  regular election to be held in 2010)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - L'ESPWA 11, FUSION 5, OPL 4, FL 3, LAAA 2, UNCRH 2, PONT 2,
  ALYANS 1; Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA; seats
  by party - L'ESPWA 23, FUSION 17, FRN 12, OPL 10, ALYANS 10, LAAA 5,
  MPH 3, MOCHRENA 3, other 10; results for six other seats contested
  on 3 December 2006 remain unknown

Holy See (Vatican City)
  unicameral Pontifical Commission for the
  State of Vatican City

Honduras
  unicameral National Congress or Congreso Nacional (128
  seats; members are elected proportionally to the number of votes
  their party's presidential candidate receives to serve four-year
  terms)
  elections: last held 27 November 2005 (next to be held in November
  2009)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PL
  62, PN 55, PUD 5, PDC 4, PINU 2

Hong Kong
  unicameral Legislative Council or LEGCO (60 seats; 30
  seats indirectly elected by functional constituencies, 30 elected by
  popular vote; members serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 7 September 2008 (next to be held in September
  2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by parties -
  pro-Beijing 37; pro-democracy 23

Hungary
  unicameral National Assembly or Orszaggyules (386 seats;
  members are elected by popular vote under a system of proportional
  and direct representation to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 9 and 23 April 2006 (next to be held in April
  2010)
  election results: percent of vote by party (5% or more of the vote
  required for parliamentary representation in the first round) - MSzP
  43.2%, Fidesz-KDNP 42%, SzDSz 6.5%, MDF 5%, other 3.3%; seats by
  party - MSzP 190, Fidesz-KDNP 164, SzDSz 20, MDF 11, independent 1;
  seats by party as of September 2008 - MSzP 189, Fidesz-KDNP 162,
  SzDSz 20, MDF 11, independent 3, vacant 1

Iceland
  unicameral Parliament or Althing (63 seats; members are
  elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 12 May 2007 (next to be held by May 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Independence Party
  36.6%, Social Democratic Alliance 26.8%, Progressive Party 11.7%,
  Left-Green Movement 14.3%, Liberal Party 7.3%, other 3.3%; seats by
  party - Independence Party 25, Social Democratic Alliance 18,
  Progressive Party 7, Left-Green Alliance 9, Liberal Party 4

India
  bicameral Parliament or Sansad consists of the Council of
  States or Rajya Sabha (a body consisting of not more than 250
  members up to 12 of whom are appointed by the president, the
  remainder are chosen by the elected members of the state and
  territorial assemblies; members serve six-year terms) and the
  People's Assembly or Lok Sabha (545 seats; 543 elected by popular
  vote, 2 appointed by the president; members serve five-year terms)
  elections: People's Assembly - last held 20 April through 10 May
  2004 (next must be held by May 2009)
  election results: People's Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA;
  seats