Pursuant to the Electoral Code of Armenia, a decision on distribution of mandates shall be adopted where as a result of election one of the political parties (alliance of political parties) has received at least 53 mandates.
Mandates of the national Assembly shall be distributed among the electoral lists of those political parties (alliances of political parties) which have received 5 per cent, in case of a political party and 7 per cent in case of the alliance apolitical parties, of ballot papers with affirmative vote and the number of inaccuracies. Lawyer of Armenian lawyers’ Association Armine Chakhalyan said in the interview with Iravaban.net.
The Electoral Code of Armenia provides the following procedure of distribution: the number of affirmative vote cast in favor of each political party (alliance of political parties) shall be multiplied by 101, the product shall be divided by the total number of ballot papers having passed the threshold and integr numbers shall be parted, which shall be the numbers of mandates available for each political party (alliance of political parties).
This means that the votes of 4 individual political forces should be multiplied by 101, the result shall be divided by 1.425. 445, which is the total number of votes in favor of the 4 political forces
Number of votes of RPA (771.249) x 101 / 1.425.445 = 54.6 mandates.
Number of votes of “Tsarukyan” Alliance (428.965) x 101 / 1.425.445 = 30.3 mandates.
Number of votes of “Yelk” Alliance (122.049) x 101 / 1.425.445 = 8.6 mandates.
Number of votes of RFA Dashanktutyun (103.173 ) x 101 / 1.425.445 = 7.3 mandates:
The lawyer said that in case where the number of mandates received by the political party (alliance of political parties) is even, mandates equal to 50 per cent of number of mandates shall be given to candidates in the national electoral list of political party (alliance of political parties )
Where the number of mandates received by the political party (alliance of political parties) is odd, mandates equal to integer part of 50 per cent of number of mandates shall be distributed among the electoral districts. The remaining part of the mandates received by the political parties (alliance of political parties) shall be given to candidates in national electoral list of political party (alliance of political parties).
The number of mandates available for each electoral district shall be determined by coefficient for each electoral district, which is calculated by the following formula: Gt = Fd / Md+1, where Cd is coefficient of the electoral district, Fd is the number of ballot papers with affirmative vote cast in favor of the political party (alliance of political parties), Md is the total number of mandates already received by the electoral district calculating coefficient of the electoral district for the next mandate. The district having the highest coefficient at the beginning of calculation of coefficients shall receive one madtae. The next vacant mandate shall be received by the district having a reliatively higher coefficient as compared to other districts. Armine Chakhalyan said.
According to preliminary results of voting, the number of votes of the political parties are the following:
• RPA -771.249 votes (49.19 %)
• “Tsarukyan” Alliance – 428.965 votes (27.36 %)
• “Yelk” Alliance – 122.049 votes (7.78 %)
• ARF – 103.173 votes (6.58 %)
The lawyer also added that according to the point provided by the new procedure 4 (four) mandates shall be distributed among national minority representatives by the principle of 1 mandate to each of the first 4 national minorities with the largest number of resident population according to the data of the latest census preceding the elections.
“At the moment, according to the results of the most recent census of the largest number of ethnic minorities are, Assyrians, Russians, Kurds, Yezidis,” Armine Chakhalyan added.
To sum up the above said it is due to mention that as a result RPA has 55, “Tsarukyan” Alliance 30, Yelk” Alliance – 9 and ARF – 7 mandates respectively.
Alis Chilingayan
