The 2008 CIA World Factbook, United States. Central Intelligence Agency [primary phonics books .TXT] 📗

by party - INC 147, BJP 129, CPI (M) 43, SP 38, RJD 23, DMK
  16, BSP 15, SS 12, BJD 11, CPI 10, NCP 10, JD (U) 8, SAD 8, PMK 6,
  JMM 5, LJSP 4, MDMK 4, TDP 4, TRS 4, independent 6, other 29, vacant
  13; note - seats by party as of December 2006

Indonesia
  House of Representatives or Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR)
  (550 seats; members elected to serve five-year terms); House of
  Regional Representatives (Dewan Perwakilan Daerah or DPD),
  constitutionally mandated role includes providing legislative input
  to DPR on issues affecting regions; People's Consultative Assembly
  (Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat or MPR) has role in inaugurating and
  impeaching president and in amending constitution; consists of
  popularly elected members in DPR and DPD; MPR does not formulate
  national policy
  elections: last held 5 April 2004 (next to be held 8 or 9 April 2009)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Golkar 21.6%, PDI-P
  18.5%, PKB 10.6%, PPP 8.2%, PD 7.5%, PKS 7.3%, PAN 6.4%, others
  19.9%; seats by party - Golkar 128, PDI-P 109, PPP 58, PD 55, PAN
  53, PKB 52, PKS 45, others 50
  note: because of election rules, the number of seats won does not
  always follow the percentage of votes received by parties

Iran
  unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly or
  Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami or Majles (290 seats; members elected by
  popular vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 14 March 2008 with a runoff held 25 April 2008
  (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote - NA; seats by party -
  conservatives/Islamists 170, reformers 46, independents 71,
  religious minorities 3

Iraq
  Council of Representatives (consisting of 275 members elected
  by a closed-list, proportional representation system)
  elections: last held 15 December 2005 to elect a 275-member Council
  of Representatives (next to be held January 2009); the Council of
  Representatives elected the Presidency Council and approved the
  prime minister and two deputy prime ministers
  election results: Council of Representatives - percent of vote by
  party - Unified Iraqi Alliance 41%, Kurdistan Alliance 22%, Tawafuq
  Coalition 15%, Iraqi National List 8%, Iraqi Front for National
  Dialogue 4%, other 10%; number of seats by party (as of November
  2007) - Unified Iraqi Alliance (including the Sadrist bloc with 30
  and Fadilah with 15) 130, Kurdistan Alliance 53, Tawafuq Front 44,
  Iraqi National List 25, Fadilah 15, Iraqi Front for National
  Dialogue 11, other 12

Ireland
  bicameral Parliament or Oireachtas consists of the Senate or
  Seanad Eireann (60 seats; 49 members elected by the universities and
  from candidates put forward by five vocational panels, 11 are
  nominated by the prime minister; to serve five-year terms) and the
  House of Representatives or Dail Eireann (166 seats; members are
  elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation
  to serve five-year terms)
  elections: Senate - last held in July 2007 (next to be held by July
  2012); House of Representatives - last held 24 May 2007 (next to be
  held by May 2012)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - Fianna Fail 28, Fine Gael 14, Labor Party 6, Progressive
  Democrats 2, Green Party 2, Sein Fein 1, independents 7; House of
  Representatives - percent of vote by party - Fianna Fail 41.6%, Fine
  Gael 27.3%, Labor Party 10.1%, Sinn Fein 6.9%, Green Party 4.7%,
  Progressive Democrats 2.7%, other 6.7%; seats by party - Fianna Fail
  78, Fine Gael 51, Labor Party 20, Sinn Fein 4, Green Party 6,
  Progressive Democrats 2, other 5

Isle of Man
  bicameral Tynwald consists of the Legislative Council
  (11 seats; members composed of the President of Tynwald, the Lord
  Bishop of Sodor and Man, a nonvoting attorney general, and 8 others
  named by the House of Keys) and the House of Keys (24 seats; members
  are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: House of Keys - last held 23 November 2006 (next to be
  held in November 2011)
  election results: House of Keys - percent of vote by party - NA;
  seats by party - Liberal Vannin Party 2, Man Labor Party 1,
  independents 21

Israel
  unicameral Knesset (120 seats; members elected by popular
  vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 28 March 2006 (next scheduled to be held in
  February 2009)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Kadima 22%, Labor
  15.1%, SHAS 9.5%, Likud 9%, Yisrael Beiteinu 9%, NU/NRP 7.1%, GIL
  5.9%, Torah and Shabbat Judaism 4.7%, Meretz-YAHAD 3.8%, United Arab
  List 3%, Balad 2.3%, HADASH 2.7%, other 5.9%; seats by party -
  Kadima 29, Labor 19, Likud 12, SHAS 12, Yisrael Beiteinu 11, NU/NRP
  9, GIL 7, Torah and Shabbat Judaism 6, Meretz-YAHAD 5, United Arab
  List 4, Balad 3, HADASH 3

Italy
  bicameral Parliament or Parlamento consists of the Senate or
  Senato della Repubblica (315 seats; members elected by proportional
  vote with the winning coalition in each region receiving 55% of
  seats from that region; to serve five-year terms) and the Chamber of
  Deputies or Camera dei Deputati (630 seats; members elected by
  popular vote with the winning national coalition receiving 54% of
  chamber seats; to serve five-year terms)
  elections: Senate - last held 13-14 April 2008 (next to be held
  April 2010); Chamber of Deputies - last held 13-14 April 2008 (next
  to be held in April 2010)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - S. BERLUSCONI coalition 174 (PdL 147, LN 25, MpA 2), W.
  VELTRONI coalition 132 (PD 118, IdV 3), UdC 3, other 6; Chamber of
  Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - S.
  BERLUSCONI coalition 344 (PdL 276, LN 60, MpA 8), W. VELTRONI
  coalition 246 (PD 217, IdV 29), UdC 36, other 4

Jamaica
  bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (a 21-member
  body appointed by the governor general on the recommendations of the
  prime minister and the leader of the opposition; ruling party is
  allocated 13 seats, and the opposition is allocated 8 seats) and the
  House of Representatives (60 seats; members are elected by popular
  vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 3 September 2007 (next to be held no later than
  October 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - JLP 50.1%, PNP 49.8%;
  seats by party - JLP 33, PNP 27

Japan
  bicameral Diet or Kokkai consists of the House of Councillors
  or Sangi-in (242 seats - members elected for six-year terms; half
  reelected every three years; 146 members in multi-seat
  constituencies and 96 by proportional representation) and the House
  of Representatives or Shugi-in (480 seats - members elected for
  four-year terms; 300 in single-seat constituencies; 180 members by
  proportional representation in 11 regional blocs)
  elections: House of Councillors - last held 29 July 2007 (next to be
  held in July 2010); House of Representatives - last held 11
  September 2005 (next election by September 2009)
  election results: House of Councillors - percent of vote by party -
  NA; seats by party - DPJ 109, LDP 83, Komeito 20, JCP 7, SDP 5,
  others 18
  House of Representatives - percent of vote by party (in single-seat
  constituencies) - LDP 47.8%, DPJ 36.4%, others 15.8%; seats by party
  - LDP 296, DPJ 113, Komeito 31, JCP 9, SDP 7, others 24 (2007)

Jersey
  unicameral Assembly of the States of Jersey (58 seats; 55 are
  voting members, of which 12 are senators elected for six-year terms,
  12 are constables or heads of parishes elected for three-year terms,
  29 are deputies elected for three-year terms, the bailiff and the
  deputy bailiff, and 3 non-voting members includes the Dean of
  Jersey, the Attorney General, and the Solicitor General appointed by
  the monarch)
  elections: last held 19 October 2005 for senators and 23 November
  2005 for deputies (next to be held on 15 October 2008)
  election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - independents 55

Jordan
  bicameral National Assembly or Majlis al-'Umma consists of
  the Senate, also called the House of Notables or Majlis al-Ayan (55
  seats; members appointed by the monarch from designated categories
  of public figures to serve four-year terms) and the Chamber of
  Deputies, also called the House of Representatives or Majlis
  al-Nuwaab (110 seats; members elected by popular vote on the basis
  of proportional representation to serve four-year terms; note - six
  seats are reserved for women and are allocated by a special
  electoral panel if no women are elected)
  elections: Chamber of Deputies - last held 20 November 2007 (next to
  be held in 2011)
  election results: Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party -
  IAF 5.5 %, independents and other 94.5%; seats by party - IAF 6,
  independents and other 104; note - seven women will serve in the
  next Assembly - six of whom filled women's quota seats and one was
  directly elected

Kazakhstan
  bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (47 seats; 7
  members are appointed by the president; other members are elected by
  local assemblies; to serve six-year terms) and the Mazhilis (107
  seats; 9 out of the 107 Mazhilis members are elected from the
  Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, which represents the country's
  ethnic minorities; members are popularly elected to serve five-year
  terms)
  elections: Senate - (indirect) last held December 2005; next to be
  held in 2011; Mazhilis - last held 18 August 2007 (next to be held
  in 2012)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - NA; Mazhilis - percent of vote by party - Nur-Otan 88.1%,
  NSDP 4.6%, Ak Zhol 3.3%, Auyl 1.6%, Communist People's Party 1.3%,
  Patriots Party .8% Ruhaniyat .4%; seats by party - Nur-Otan 98; note
  - parties must achieve a threshold of 7% of the electorate to
  qualify for seats in the Mazhilis

Kenya
  unicameral National Assembly or Bunge (224 seats; 210 members
  elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms, 12 so-called
  "nominated" members who are appointed by the president but selected
  by the parties in proportion to their parliamentary vote totals, 2
  ex-officio members)
  elections: last held 27 December 2007 (next to be held in December
  2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  ODM 99, PNU 43, ODM-K 16, KANU 14 other 38; ex-officio 2; seats
  appointed by the president - TBD

Kiribati
  unicameral House of Parliament or Maneaba Ni Maungatabu (46
  seats; 44 members elected by popular vote, 1 ex officio member - the
  attorney general, 1 nominated by the Rabi Council of Leaders
  (representing Banaba Island); to serve four-year terms)
  elections: legislative elections were held in two rounds - the first
  round on 22 August 2007 and the second round on 30 August 2007 (next
  to be held in 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  NA, other 2 (includes attorney general)

Korea, North
  unicameral Supreme People's Assembly or Ch'oego Inmin
  Hoeui (687 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year
  terms)
  elections: last held 3 August 2003 (next to be held in August 2008)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  NA; ruling party approves a list of candidates who are elected
  without opposition; some seats are held by minor parties

Korea, South
  unicameral National Assembly or Kukhoe (299 seats; 243
  members elected in single-seat constituencies, 56 elected by
  proportional representation; to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 9 April 2008 (next to be held in April 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  GNP 153, UDP 81, LFP 18, Pro-Park Alliance 14, DLP 5, CKP 3,
  independents 25

Kosovo
  unicameral Kosovo Assembly of the Provisional Government (120
  seats; 100 seats directly elected, 10 seats for Serbs, 10 seats for
  other minorities; to serve three-year terms)
  elections: last held 17 November 2007 (next to be held in 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - PDK 34.3%, LDK 22.6%,
  AKR 12.3%, LDD 10.0%, AAK 9.6%, other 11.2%; seats by party - PDK
  37, LDK 25, AKR 13, LDD 11, AAK 10, other 4

Kuwait
  unicameral National Assembly or Majlis al-Umma (50 seats;
  members elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms; all
  cabinet ministers are also ex officio voting members of the National
  Assembly)
  elections: last held 17 May 2008 (next election to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by bloc - NA; seats by bloc -
  Sunni 21, Islamic Salafi Alliance 10, Liberals 7, Shiites 5, Popular
  Action Bloc 4, Islamic Constitutional Movement 3

Kyrgyzstan
  unicameral Supreme Council or Jorgorku Kengesh (90 seats;
  members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 16 December 2007 (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: Supreme Council - percent of vote by party - NA;
  seats by party - Ak Jol 71, Social Democratic Party 11, KCP 8

Laos
  unicameral National Assembly (115 seats; members elected by
  popular vote from a list of candidates selected by the Lao People's
  Revolutionary Party to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 30 April 2006 (next to be held in 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  LPRP 113, independents 2

Latvia
  unicameral Parliament or Saeima (100 seats; members are
  elected by proportional representation from party lists by popular
  vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 7 October 2006