Parliamentary elections were held in

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on 3 September 2018,Legislative elections: Parties applaud peaceful process
The New Times, 3 September 2018 with Rwandan overseas voting the day before. The result was a victory for the

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coalition, which won 40 of the 53 elected seats while losing its absolute majority over the total of seats, whilst the Democratic Green Party and

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both entered parliament for the first time. With 49 of the 80 seats in the newly elected parliament held by women (61%), the elections maintained Rwanda's position as the country with the highest proportion of female MPs.

Electoral system

The 80-seat

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is elected by two methods: 53 seats are directly elected by closed list

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in a single nationwide constituency with an electoral threshold of 5%; seats are allocated using the

largest remainder method The largest remainder method (also known as Hare–Niemeyer method, Hamilton method or as Vinton's method) is one way of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems. It contrasts with variou ...

.Electoral system
IPU The remaining 27 seats are indirectly elected by local and national councils, including 24 reserved for women (six from

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, Southern and

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provinces, four from Northern Province and two from

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), two for representatives of youth and one for representatives of the disabled.Rwandans vote in parliamentary elections
Al Jazeera, 16 September 2013

Results

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and

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were elected as the youth representatives, whilst

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was elected as the disabled representative.Elected MPs
NEC

References

Elections in Rwanda

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