The legislatures are listed with their names in English and the name in the (most-used) native language of the country (or the official name in the second-most used native language in cases where English is the majority "native" language).
National Assembly of Armenia (Հայաստանի Հանրապետության Ազգային ժողով, Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azgayin zhoghov / Abbreviated: Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ, Azgayin Zhoghov, AZh)
Informal: Parliament of Armenia (խորհրդարան, Khorhrdaran)
National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (Нацыянальны сход Рэспублікі Беларусь, Nacyjanalny schod Respubliki Bielaruś / Национальное собрание Республики Беларусь, Natsionalnoye sobran'ye Respubliki Belarus)
House of Representatives (Палата прадстаўнікоў, Palata pradstaŭnikoŭ / Палата представителей, Palata predstavitelej)
First-past-the-post and Block vote: If no list obtains an absolute majority, the one with the highest number of votes is allocated half of the seats; the remainder is allocated to the other best-placed lists through proportional representation
National Assembly (Assemblée nationale / الجمعية الوطنية, aljameiat alwatania)
Unicameral
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Block vote and closed listproportional representation by constituencies: The list obtaining an absolute or relative majority of votes is allocated 80% of the seats; the remainder is allocated to the other best-placed lists which obtained at least 10% of the valid votes through proportional representation; if no other list obtains 10% of the valid votes, the remaining seats will be allocated to the party which won the majority or relative majority of the valid votes
Elected indirectly by officials including regional councilors, department councilors, mayors, city councilors, and members of the National Assembly; two-round or proportional by department depending on the number of seats.
parallel voting (122 seats by proportional representation, 74 seats by first past the post and 4 abroad by proportional representation), 5 members appointed by the President and former Presidents by right
House of Councillors (مجلس المستشارين, Majlis al-Mustasharin / ⴰⵙⵇⵇⵉⵎ ⵏ ⵉⵏⵙⴼⴰⵡⵏ, Asqqim n Insfawn / Chambre des conseillers)
Upper
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Indirect election: 72 members are elected at the Kingdom's regional level, 20 in each region by a single electoral college made up of all those in the relevant region that have been elected to specific professional associations, 8 in each region by an electoral college made up of those elected from the most representative employers' professional organizations, 20 by a nationwide electoral college made up of employees
Senate (Senado or Mataas na Kapulungan, lit.'Upper house')
Upper
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bloc voting. Voter is allocated 12 votes. 1/2 of the seats are contested every 3 years with the 12 elected senators having the largest portion of the National Popular Vote
First-past-the-post indirect elections held within 'functional' interest organisations and 'local' interest communities by electoral bodies (electors).
^Assuming membership of 30. This is only an estimate; the size of the council is not fixed and the membership is not fully verified.[4]
^There are three compensation mechanisms in addition of the basis 101 seats: if a party wins a majority then they win a majority jackpot of 54% of the seats; if a party wins over two-thirds of the seats then other parties receive additional seats to have no party above two-thirds; if no party can form a government in 6 days then a runoff election between the top-2 is held, with a 54% seats majority jackpot. Four additional seats are elected for national minorities.
Legislatures of autonomous regions, dependencies and other territories
^Seats allocation is based on the runoff, unless a list reaches 50% in their section in the first round. Lists with 5% in the first round can merge with other qualified lists.
^Seats allocation is based on the runoff, unless a list reaches 50% and a quarter of registered voters in the first round. Lists with 5% in the first round can merge with other qualified lists.
^Seats allocation is based on the runoff, unless a list reaches 50% and a quarter of registered voters in the first round. Lists with 5% in the first round can merge with other qualified lists.
^Seats allocation is based on the runoff, unless a list reaches 50% and a quarter of registered voters in the first round. Lists with 5% in the first round can merge with other qualified lists.
Legislatures of non-UN states (including unrecognized and disputed territories)
^Lakota, Igor (2006). Sistem nepopolne dvodomnosti v slovenskem parlamentu (diplomska naloga) [The system of incomplete bicameralism in the Slovenian Parliament (diploma thesis)] (PDF) (in Slovenian). Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. p. 62. Retrieved 16 December 2010. Opinions differ, however the majority of domestic experts agree that the National Council may be regarded as the upper house, but the bicameralism is distinctively incomplete.
^Candidates require 5% of their party's vote total in their constituency in order to override the default party-list order
^A party may earn seats even if they fail to reach 4% of the vote nationally if they obtain 12% of the vote in a given constituency
