Parliamentary elections were held in
Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...
on 20 December 2018. They had been initially scheduled for July 2018, but were postponed until
ECOWAS
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called for polling to take place on 20 December. The main
opposition parties
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, which formed ''Aliance C14'', boycotted the elections following the refusal of President
to fully cancel proposed
constitution
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When ...
reforms that would allow him to run for two more terms beyond his current ending term in 2020.
Electoral system
The 91 members of the
National Assembly
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are elected by
closed list
Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively only vote for political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some inf ...
proportional representation
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from 30 multi-member constituencies ranging in size from two to ten seats. Seats are allocated using the
highest averages method
A highest-averages method, also called a divisor method, is a class of methods for allocating seats in a parliament among agents such as political parties or federal states. A divisor method is an iterative method: at each iteration, the number ...
.
Campaign
The elections saw 105 political parties submit lists, alongside 25 lists of independent candidates. A total of 850 candidates ran for the 91 available seats.
Proclamation des resultats provisoires des elections legislatives 2018
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Results
References
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Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...
2018 in Togo
Elections in Togo
December 2018 events in Africa
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