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

Sweden
  unicameral Parliament or Riksdag (349 seats; members are
  elected by popular vote on a proportional representation basis to
  serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held on 17 September 2006 (next to be held in
  September 2010)
  election results: percent of vote by party - Social Democrats 37.2%,
  Moderates 27.8%, Center Party 8.3%, Liberal People's Party 8.0%,
  Christian Democrats 6.9%, Left Party 6.3%, Greens 5.4%; seats by
  party - Social Democrats 130, Moderates 97, Center Party 29, Liberal
  People's Party 28, Christian Democrats 24, Left Party 22, Greens 19

Switzerland
  bicameral Federal Assembly or Bundesversammlung (in
  German), Assemblee Federale (in French), Assemblea Federale (in
  Italian) consists of the Council of States or Standerat (in German),
  Conseil des Etats (in French), Consiglio degli Stati (in Italian)
  (46 seats; membership consists of 2 representatives from each canton
  and 1 from each half canton; to serve four-year terms) and the
  National Council or Nationalrat (in German), Conseil National (in
  French), Consiglio Nazionale (in Italian) (200 seats; members are
  elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation
  to serve four-year terms)
  elections: Council of States - last held in most cantons on 19
  October 2003 (each canton determines when the next election will be
  held); National Council - last held on 21 October 2007 (next to be
  held in October 2011)
  election results: Council of States - percent of vote by party - NA;
  seats by party - CVP 15, FDP 14, SVP 8, SPS 6, other 3; National
  Council - percent of vote by party - SVP 29%, SPS 19.5%, FDP 15.6%,
  CVP 14.6%, Greens 9.6%, other 11.7%; seats by party - SVP 62, SPS
  43, FDP 31, CVP 31, Green Party 20, other small parties 13; note -
  seating for the Council of States as of December 2007 is CVP 16, FDP
  12, SVP 7, SPS 9, other 2

Syria
  unicameral People's Council or Majlis al-Shaab (250 seats;
  members elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held on 22-23 April 2007 (next to be held in 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  NPF 172, independents 78

Taiwan
  unicameral Legislative Yuan (113 seats - 73 district members
  elected by popular vote, 34 at-large members elected on basis of
  proportion of islandwide votes received by participating political
  parties, 6 elected by popular vote among aboriginal populations; to
  serve four-year terms); parties must receive 5% of vote to qualify
  for at-large seats
  elections: Legislative Yuan - last held 12 January 2008 (next to be
  held in January 2012)
  election results: Legislative Yuan - percent of vote by party - KMT
  53.5%, DPP 38.2%, NPSU 2.4%, PFP 0.3%, others 1.6%, independents 4%;
  seats by party - KMT 81, DPP 27, NPSU 3, PFP 1, independent 1

Tajikistan
  bicameral Supreme Assembly or Majlisi Oli consists of the
  National Assembly (upper chamber) or Majlisi Milliy (34 seats; 25
  members selected by local deputies, 8 appointed by the president; 1
  seat reserved for the former president; to serve five-year terms)
  and the Assembly of Representatives (lower chamber) or Majlisi
  Namoyandagon (63 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve
  five-year terms)
  elections: National Assembly - last held 25 March 2005 (next to be
  held in February 2010); Assembly of Representatives 27 February and
  13 March 2005 (next to be held in February 2010)
  election results: National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA;
  seats by party - PDPT 29, CPT 2, independents 3; Assembly of
  Representatives - percent of vote by party - PDPT 74.9%, CPT 13.6%,
  Islamic Revival Party 8.9%, other 2.5%; seats by party - PDPT 51,
  CPT 5, Islamic Revival Party 2, independents 5

Tanzania
  unicameral National Assembly or Bunge (274 seats; 232
  members elected by popular vote, 37 allocated to women nominated by
  the president, 5 to members of the Zanzibar House of
  Representatives; to serve five-year terms); note - in addition to
  enacting laws that apply to the entire United Republic of Tanzania,
  the Assembly enacts laws that apply only to the mainland; Zanzibar
  has its own House of Representatives to make laws especially for
  Zanzibar (the Zanzibar House of Representatives has 50 seats elected
  by universal suffrage to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 14 December 2005 (next to be held in December
  2010)
  election results: National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA;
  seats by party - CCM 206, CUF 19, CHADEMA 5, other 2, women
  appointed by the president 37, Zanzibar representatives 5 Zanzibar
  House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - CCM 30, CUF 19; 1 seat was nullified with a rerun to take
  place soon

Thailand
  bicameral National Assembly or Rathasapha consisted of the
  Senate or Wuthisapha (150 seats; 76 members elected by popular vote
  representing 76 provinces, 74 appointed by judges and independent
  government bodies; all serve six-year terms) and the House of
  Representatives or Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon (480 seats; 400 members
  elected from 157 multi-seat constituencies and 80 elected on
  proportional party-list basis of 10 per eight zones or groupings of
  provinces; all serve four-year terms)
  elections: Senate - last held on 2 March 2008 (next to be held in
  March 2014); House of Representatives - last election held on 23
  December 2007 (next to be held in December 2011)
  election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - NA; House of Representatives - percent of vote by party -
  NA; seats by party - PPP 233, DP 164, TNP 34, Motherland 24, Middle
  Way 11, Unity 9, Royalist People's 5
  note: 74 senators were appointed on 19 February 2008 by a
  seven-member committee headed by the chief of the Constitutional
  Court; 76 senators were elected on 2 March 2008; elections to the
  Senate are non-partisan; registered political party members are
  disqualified from being senators

Timor-Leste
  unicameral National Parliament (number of seats can vary
  from 52 to 65; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year
  terms)
  elections: last held on 30 June 2007 (next elections due by June
  2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - FRETILIN 29%, CNRT
  24.1%, ASDT-PSD 15.8%, PD 11.3%, PUN 4.5%, KOTA-PPT (Democratic
  Alliance) 3.2%, UNTERDIM 3.2%, others 8.9%; seats by party -
  FRETILIN 21, CNRT 18, ASDT-PSD 11, PD 8, PUN 3, KOTA-PPT 2, UNDERTIM
  2

Togo
  unicameral National Assembly (81 seats; members are elected by
  popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held on 14 October 2007 (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - RPT 39.4%, UFC 37.0%,
  CAR 8.2%, independents 2.5%, other 12.9%; seats by party - RPT 50,
  UFC 27, CAR 4

Tokelau
  unicameral General Fono (20 seats; based upon proportional
  representation from the three islands elected by popular vote to
  serve three-year terms; Atafu has seven seats, Fakaofo has seven
  seats, Nukunonu has six seats); note - the Tokelau Amendment Act of
  1996 confers limited legislative power on the General Fono
  elections: last held 17-19 January 2008 (next to be held in 2011)
  election results: independents 20

Tonga
  unicameral Legislative Assembly or Fale Alea (32 seats - 14
  reserved for cabinet ministers sitting ex officio, nine for nobles
  selected by the country's 33 nobles, and nine elected by popular
  vote; members serve three-year terms)
  elections: last held on 23-24 April 2008 (next to be held in 2011)
  election results: Peoples Representatives: percent of vote -
  independents 54%, THRDM 28%, PDP 14%; seats - THRDM 4, independents
  3, PDP 2

Trinidad and Tobago
  bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (31
  seats; 16 members appointed by the ruling party, nine by the
  President, six by the opposition party to serve a maximum term of
  five years) and the House of Representatives (41 seats; members are
  elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: House of Representatives - last held on 5 November 2007
  (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: House of Representatives - percent of vote - PNM
  46%, UNC 29.7%; seats by party - PNM 26, UNC 15
  note: Tobago has a unicameral House of Assembly with 12 members
  serving four-year terms; last election held in January 2005; seats
  by party - PNM 11, DAC 1

Tunisia
  bicameral system consists of the Chamber of Deputies or
  Majlis al-Nuwaab (189 seats; members elected by popular vote to
  serve five-year terms) and the Chamber of Advisors (126 seats; 85
  members elected by municipal counselors, deputies, mayors, and
  professional associations and trade unions; 41 members are
  presidential appointees; members serve six-year terms)
  elections: Chamber of Deputies - last held on 24 October 2004 (next
  to be held in October 2009); Chamber of Advisors - last held on 3
  July 2005 (next to be held in July 2011)
  election results: Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party -
  NA; seats by party - RCD 152, MDS 14, PUP 11, UDU 7, Al-Tajdid 3,
  PSL 2; Chamber of Advisors - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
  party - RCD 71 (14 trade union seats vacant (due to boycott))

Turkey
  unicameral Grand National Assembly of Turkey or Turkiye Buyuk
  Millet Meclisi (550 seats; members are elected by popular vote to
  serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held on 22 July 2007 (next to be held on November
  2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party - AKP 46.7%, CHP 20.8%,
  MHP 14.3%, independents 5.2%, and other 13.0%; seats by party - AKP
  341, CHP 112, MHP 71, independents 26; note - seats by party as of
  17 December 2007 - AKP 340, CHP 87, MHP 70, DTP 20, DSP 13,
  independents 6, other 12, vacant 2 (DTP entered parliament as
  independents; DSP entered parliament on CHP's party list); only
  parties surpassing the 10% threshold are entitled to parliamentary
  seats

Turkmenistan
  two parliamentary bodies, a People's Council or Halk
  Maslahaty (supreme legislative body of about 2,500 delegates, some
  elected by popular vote and some appointed; meets at least yearly)
  and a National Assembly or Mejlis (50 seats; members are elected by
  popular vote to serve five-year terms)
  elections: People's Council - last held in April 2003 (next to be
  held in December 2008); National Assembly - last held 19 December
  2004 (next to be held in December 2008)
  election results: People's Council - percent of vote by party - DPT
  100%; seats by party - DPT 2,507; National Assembly - percent of
  vote by party - DPT 100%; seats by party - DPT 50; note - all
  elected officials are members of the Democratic Party of
  Turkmenistan and are preapproved by the president
  note: in late 2003, a law was adopted reducing the powers of the
  National Assembly and making the People's Council the supreme
  legislative organ; the People's Council can now legally dissolve the
  National Assembly, and the president is now able to participate in
  the National Assembly as its supreme leader; the National Assembly
  can no longer adopt or amend the constitution or announce
  referendums or its elections; since the president is both the
  chairman of the People's Council and the supreme leader of the
  National Assembly, the 2003 law has the effect of making him the
  sole authority of both the executive and legislative branches of
  government

Turks and Caicos Islands
  unicameral House of Assembly (21 seats of
  which 15 are popularly elected; members serve four-year terms)
  elections: last held 9 February 2007 (next to be held in 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - PNP 60%, PDM 40%; seats
  by party - PNP 13, PDM 2

Tuvalu
  unicameral Parliament or Fale I Fono, also called House of
  Assembly (15 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve
  four-year terms)
  elections: last held 3 August 2006 (next to be held in 2010)
  election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - independents 15

Uganda
  unicameral National Assembly (332 seats; 215 members elected
  by popular vote, 104 nominated by legally established special
  interest groups [women 79, army 10, disabled 5, youth 5, labor 5],
  13 ex officio members; to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 23 February 2006 (next to be held in 2011)
  election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
  NRM 191, FDC 37, UPC 9, DP 8, CP 1, JEEMA 1, independents 36, other
  49

Ukraine
  unicameral Supreme Council or Verkhovna Rada (450 seats;
  members allocated on a proportional basis to those parties that gain
  3% or more of the national electoral vote; to serve five-year terms)
  elections: last held 30 September 2007 (next to be held in 2012)
  election results: percent of vote by party/bloc - Party of Regions
  34.4%, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc 30.7%, Our Ukraine-People's Self
  Defense 14.2%, CPU 5.4%, Lytvyn bloc 4%, other parties 11.3%; seats
  by party/bloc - Party of Regions 175, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc 156,
  Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense 72, CPU 27, Lytvyn bloc 20

United Arab Emirates
  unicameral Federal National Council (FNC) or
  Majlis al-Ittihad al-Watani (40 seats; 20 members appointed by the
  rulers of the constituent states, 20 members elected to serve
  two-year terms)
  elections: elections for one half of the FNC (the other half remains
  appointed) held in the UAE on 18-20 December 2006; the new electoral
  college - a body of 6,689 Emiratis (including 1,189 women) appointed
  by the rulers of the seven emirates