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elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms)
  elections: elections last held 19 and 26 in March 2006 (next to be
  held in March 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - AD
  16, Cap sur l'Avenir 2, SPM 2000/AM 1
  note: Saint Pierre and Miquelon elect one seat to the French Senate;
  elections last held 26 September 2004 (next to be held in September
  2013); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP
  1; Saint Pierre and Miquelon also elects one seat to the French
  National Assembly; elections last held, first round - 10 June 2007,
  second round - 17 June 2007 (next to be held in 2012); results -
  percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Left Radical Party 1

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines unicameral House of Assembly (21 seats, 15 elected representatives and six appointed senators; representatives are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 7 December 2005 (next to be held in 2010) election results: percent of vote by party - ULP 55.3%, NDP 44.7%; seats by party - ULP 12, NDP 3

Samoa
  unicameral Legislative Assembly or Fono (49 seats, 47 elected
  by voters affiliated with traditional village-based electoral
  districts, 2 elected by independent, mostly non-Samoan or
  part-Samoan, voters who cannot, (or choose not to) establish a
  village affiliation; only chiefs (matai) may stand for election to
  the Fono from the 47 village-based electorates; members serve
  five-year terms)
  elections: election last held 31 March 2006 (next election to be
  held not later than March 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  HRPP 35, SDUP 10, independents 4

San Marino
  unicameral Grand and General Council or Consiglio Grande
  e Generale (60 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve
  five-year terms)
  elections: last held 9 November 2008 (next to be held by June 2013)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Pact for San Marino
  coalition 54.2%: PDCS 31.9%, AP 11.5%, Freedom List 6.3%, San Marino
  Union of Moderates 4.2%; Reforms and Freedom coalition 45.8%; Party
  of Socialists and Democrats 32%, United Left 8.6%, Democrats of the
  Center 4.9%; seats by party - Pact for San Marino coalition 35; PDCS
  22, AP 7, the Freedom List 4, San Marino Union of Moderates 2;
  Reforms and Freedm coalition 25: Party of Socialists and Democrats
  18, United Left 5, Democrats of the Center 2

Sao Tome and Principe
  unicameral National Assembly or Assembleia
  Nacional (55 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve
  four-year terms)
  elections: last held on 26 March 2006 (next to be held in March 2010)
  election results: percent of vote by party - MDFM-PCD 37.2%, MLSTP
  28.9%, ADI 20.0%, NR 4.7%, others 9.2%; seats by party - MDFM-PCD
  23, MLSTP 19, ADI 12, NR 1

Saudi Arabia
  Consultative Council or Majlis al-Shura (150 members
  and a chairman appointed by the monarch for four-year terms); note -
  though the Council of Ministers announced in October 2003 its intent
  to introduce elections for half of the members of local and
  provincial assemblies and a third of the members of the national
  Consultative Council or Majlis al-Shura, incrementally over a period
  of four to five years, to date no such elections have been held or
  announced

Senegal
  bicameral Parliament consisting of the National Assembly or
  Assemblee Nationale (150 seats; 90 members elected by direct popular
  vote with the remaining members elected by proportional
  representation from party lists to serve five-year terms) and the
  Senate reinstituted in 2007 (100 seats; 35 indirectly elected with
  the remaining 65 members to be appointed by the president)
  elections: National Assembly - last held on 3 June 2007 (next to be
  held 2012); note - the National Assembly in December 2005 voted to
  postpone legislative elections originally scheduled for 2006;
  legislative elections were first rescheduled to coincide with the 25
  February 2007 presidential elections and later rescheduled for 3
  June 2007; the June election was boycotted by 12 opposition parties,
  including the former ruling Socialist Party, that resulted in a
  record-low, 35-percent voter turnout; Senate - last held 19 August
  2007 (next to be held - NA)
  election results: National Assembly results - percent of vote by
  party - NA; seats by party - SOPI Coalition 131, other 19; Senate
  results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PDS 34,
  AJ/PADS 1, 65 appointed by the president

Serbia
  unicameral National Assembly (250 seats; deputies elected by
  direct vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held on 11 May 2008 (next to be held in May 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - For a European Serbia
  coalition 38.4%, SRS 29.5%, DSS-NS 11.6%, coalition led by the SPS
  7.6%, LPD 5.2%, other 7.7%; seats by party - For a European Serbia
  102, SRS 78, DSS-NS 30, coalition led by the SPS 20, LDP 13, other
  7; note - the seat allocation for the SNS is uncertain because of an
  ongoing dispute with the SRS

Seychelles
  unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (34
  seats; 25 members elected by popular vote, 9 allocated on a
  proportional basis to parties winning at least 10% of the vote; to
  serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 10-12 May 2007 (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - SPPF 56.2%, SNP 43.8%;
  seats by party - SPPF 23, SNP 11

Sierra Leone
  unicameral Parliament (124 seats; 112 members elected
  by popular vote, 12 filled by paramount chiefs elected in separate
  elections; to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held on 11 August 2007 (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  APC 59, SLPP 43, PMDC 10

Singapore
  unicameral Parliament (84 seats; members elected by
  popular vote to serve five-year terms); note - in addition, there
  are up to nine nominated members; up to three losing opposition
  candidates who came closest to winning seats may be appointed as
  "nonconstituency" members
  elections: last held on 6 May 2006 (next to be held by 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - PAP 66.6%, WP 16.3%,
  SDA 13%, SDP 4.1%; seats by party - PAP 82, WP 1, SDA 1

Slovakia
  unicameral National Council of the Slovak Republic or
  Narodna Rada Slovenskej Republiky (150 seats; members are elected on
  the basis of proportional representation to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 17 June 2006 (next to be held in 2010)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Smer 29.1%, SDKU 18.4%,
  SMK 11.7%, SNS 11.7%, LS-HZDS 8.8%, KDH 8.3%, other 12%; seats by
  party - Smer 50, SDKU 31, SMK 20, SNS 19, LS-HZDS 16, KDH 14

Slovenia
  bicameral Parliament consists of a National Assembly or
  Drzavni Zbor (90 seats; 40 members are directly elected and 50 are
  elected on a proportional basis; note - the number of directly
  elected and proportionally elected seats varies with each election;
  the constitution mandates 1 seat each for Slovenia's Hungarian and
  Italian minorities; members are elected by popular vote to serve
  four-year terms) and the National Council or Drzavni Svet (40 seats;
  members indirectly elected by an electoral college to serve
  five-year terms; note - this is primarily an advisory body with
  limited legislative powers; it may propose laws, ask to review any
  National Assembly decision, and call national referenda)
  elections: National Assembly - last held 21 September 2008 (next to
  be held 8 October 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - SD 30.5%, SDS 29.3%,
  ZARES 9.4%, DeSUS 7.5%, SNS 5.5%, SLS+SMS 5.2%, LDS 5.2%, other
  7.4%; seats by party - SD 29, SDS 28, ZARES 9, DeSUS 7, SNS 5,
  SLS+SMS 5, LDS 5, Hungarian minority 1, Italian minority 1

Solomon Islands
  unicameral National Parliament (50 seats; members
  elected from single-member constituencies by popular vote to serve
  four-year terms)
  elections: last held on 5 April 2006 (next to be held in 2010)
  election results: percent of vote by party - National Party 6.9%,
  PAP 6.3%, SIPRA 6.3%, Liberal 5%, Democratic 4.9%, SOCRED 4.3%,
  LAFARI 2.8%, independents 60.3%; seats by party - National Party 4,
  SIPRA 4, Democratic 3, PAP 3, LAFARI 2, Liberal 2, SOCRED 2,
  independents 30

Somalia
  unicameral National Assembly
  note: unicameral Transitional Federal Assembly (TFA) (275 seats; 244
  members appointed by the four major clans (61 for each clan), 31
  seats allocated to smaller clans and subclans)

South Africa
  bicameral Parliament consisting of the National
  Assembly (400 seats; members are elected by popular vote under a
  system of proportional representation to serve five-year terms) and
  the National Council of Provinces (90 seats, 10 members elected by
  each of the nine provincial legislatures for five-year terms; has
  special powers to protect regional interests, including the
  safeguarding of cultural and linguistic traditions among ethnic
  minorities); note - following the implementation of the new
  constitution on 4 February 1997, the former Senate was disbanded and
  replaced by the National Council of Provinces with essentially no
  change in membership and party affiliations, although the new
  institution's responsibilities have been changed somewhat by the new
  constitution
  elections: National Assembly and National Council of Provinces -
  last held on 14 April 2004 (next to be held in 2009)
  election results: National Assembly - percent of vote by party - ANC
  69.7%, DA 12.4%, IFP 7%, UDM 2.3%, NNP 1.7%, ACDP 1.6%, other 5.3%;
  seats by party - ANC 279, DA 50, IFP 28, UDM 9, NNP 7, ACDP 6, other
  21; National Council of Provinces - percent of vote by party - NA;
  seats by party - NA

Spain
  bicameral; General Courts or National Assembly or Las Cortes
  Generales consists of the Senate or Senado (264 seats as of 2008;
  208 members directly elected by popular vote and the other 56 - as
  of 2008 - appointed by the regional legislatures; to serve four-year
  terms) and the Congress of Deputies or Congreso de los Diputados
  (350 seats; each of the 50 electoral provinces fills a minimum of
  two seats and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla fill
  one seat each with members serving a four-year term; the other 248
  members are determined by proportional representation based on
  popular vote on block lists who serve four-year terms)
  elections: Senate - last held on 9 March 2008 (next to be held in
  March 2012); Congress of Deputies - last held on 9 March 2008 (next
  to be held in March 2012)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - PP 101, PSOE 88, Entesa Catalona de Progress 12, CiU 4, PNV
  2, CC 1, members appointed by regional legislatures 56; Congress of
  Deputies - percent of vote by party - PSOE 43.6%, PP 40.1%, CiU
  3.1%, PNV 1.2%, ERC 1.2%, other 10.8%; seats by party - PSOE 169, PP
  154, CiU 10, PNV 6, ERC 3, other 8

Sri Lanka
  unicameral Parliament (225 seats; members elected by
  popular vote on the basis of an open-list, proportional
  representation system by electoral district to serve six-year terms)
  elections: last held on 2 April 2004 (next to be held by 2010)
  election results: percent of vote by party or electoral alliance -
  SLFP and JVP (no longer in formal UPFA alliance) 45.6%, UNP 37.8%,
  TNA 6.8%, JHU 6%, SLMC 2%, UPF 0.5%, EPDP 0.3%, other 1%; seats by
  party - UNP 68, SLFP 57, JVP 39, TNA 22, CWC 8, JHU 7, SLMC 6, SLMC
  dissidents 4, Communist Party 2, JHU dissidents 2, LSSP 2, MEP 2,
  NUA 2, UPF 2, EPDP 1, UNP dissident 1

Sudan
  bicameral National Legislature consists of a Council of States
  (50 seats; members indirectly elected by state legislatures to serve
  six-year terms) and a National Assembly (450 seats; members
  presently appointed, but in the future 75% of members to be directly
  elected and 25% elected in special or indirect elections; to serve
  six-year terms)
  elections: last held 13-22 December 2000 (next to be held 2009)
  election results: NCP 355, others 5; note - replaced by appointments
  under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement

Suriname
  unicameral National Assembly or Nationale Assemblee (51
  seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held on 25 May 2005 (next to be held in 2010)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NF 39.7%, NDP 22.2%,
  VVV 13.8%, A-Com 7.2%, A-1 5.9%, other 11.2%; seats by party - NF
  23, NDP 15, VVV 5, A-Com 5, A-1 3

Swaziland
  bicameral Parliament or Libandla consists of the Senate
  (30 seats; 10 members appointed by the House of Assembly and 20
  appointed by the monarch; to serve five-year terms) and the House of
  Assembly (65 seats; 10 members appointed by the monarch and 55
  elected by popular vote; to serve five-year terms)
  elections: House of Assembly - last held 19 September 2008 (next to
  be held in 2013)
  election results: House of Assembly - balloting is done on a
  nonparty basis; candidates for election are nominated by the local
  council of each constituency and for each constituency the three
  candidates with the most votes in the first round of