Armenian parliamentary election, 1995
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Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia
on 5 July 1995, with a second round on 29 July. There were 150 constituency seats and 40 elected on a national basis using proportional representation. The result was a victory for the Republican Bloc (an alliance of the Pan-Armenian National Movement
, Democratic Liberal Party
, Christian Democratic Union and the Republican Party
), which won 88 of the 190 seats. Overall voter turnout was 54.3%.
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
on 5 July 1995, with a second round on 29 July. There were 150 constituency seats and 40 elected on a national basis using proportional representation. The result was a victory for the Republican Bloc (an alliance of the Pan-Armenian National Movement
Pan-Armenian National Movement
The Pan-Armenian National Movement or Armenian Allnational Movement is a political party representing Armenian national movement in Armenia Presently without parliamentary representation.It was founded by Levon Ter-Petrossian in 1989 and became the ruling party when it swept the 1990 elections...
, Democratic Liberal Party
Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia
Presently the party is presided by Harutiun Arakelian. In 2008 three smaller parties in Armenia dissolved into the Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia, namely:*National Rebirth*Dashink*Liberal Progressive Parties...
, Christian Democratic Union and the Republican Party
Republican Party of Armenia
The Republican Party of Armenia is a national conservative political party in Armenia. It was the first political party in independent Armenia to be founded and registered . It is the largest party of the centre-right in Armenia, and claims to have 140,000 members...
), which won 88 of the 190 seats. Overall voter turnout was 54.3%.
Results
| Party | Constituency | National | Total seats | +/- | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
| Republican Bloc* | 68 | 329,000 | 43.9 | 20 | 88 | New | |||
| Shamiram | 0 | 130,252 | 17.4 | 8 | 8 | New | |||
| Armenian Communist Party Armenian Communist Party The Armenian Communist Party is a communist political party in Armenia.It considers itself the successor of the Communist Party of Armenia of the Soviet Union, since the former leadership of this party, headed by Aram Gasparovich Sarkisyan, dissolved it and established the Democratic Party of... |
4 | 93,353 | 12.4 | 6 | 10 | ||||
| National Democratic Union National Democratic Union (Armenia) The National Democratic Union is a political party in Armenia. Vazgen Manukyan is the chairman of the party.... |
2 | 57,996 | 7.7 | 3 | 5 | New | |||
| National Union of Self-Determination | 0 | 42,987 | 5.7 | 3 | 3 | New | |||
| Armenian Democratic Liberal Party | 1 | 19,437 | 2.6 | 0 | 1 | New | |||
| Will and Dashnaksutiun | 0 | 15,424 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
| Armenian Agraian Democratic Party | 0 | 13,784 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
| Democratic Party Democratic Party of Armenia The Democratic Party of Armenia is a democratic socialist political party in Armenia.... |
0 | 13,784 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
| Mission | 0 | 10,428 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
| Armenian Scientific-Industrial Civil Union | 0 | 9,940 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
| Nation State | 0 | 8,397 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
| People's Party People's Party (Armenia) The People's Party is a political party in Armenia.In the 2007 Armenian parliamentary elections it didn't win any seat with a popular vote of 2.74%.... |
0 | 6,706 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation Armenian Revolutionary Federation The Armenian Revolutionary Federation is an Armenian political party founded in Tiflis in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian... |
1 | ||||||||
| 1 | New | ||||||||
| Independents | 72 | ||||||||
| 72 | |||||||||
| None of the above | |||||||||
| Vacant | |||||||||
| 2 | |||||||||
| 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | |||||||||
| 411,743 | |||||||||
| Total | 150 | 1,183,573 | 100 | 40 | 190 | -69 | |||
| Source: Nohlen et al. | |||||||||
- The Republican Bloc parties ran separately in the constituency elections, with Pan-Armenian National MovementPan-Armenian National MovementThe Pan-Armenian National Movement or Armenian Allnational Movement is a political party representing Armenian national movement in Armenia Presently without parliamentary representation.It was founded by Levon Ter-Petrossian in 1989 and became the ruling party when it swept the 1990 elections...
winning 62 seats, the Democratic Liberal PartyDemocratic Liberal Party of ArmeniaPresently the party is presided by Harutiun Arakelian. In 2008 three smaller parties in Armenia dissolved into the Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia, namely:*National Rebirth*Dashink*Liberal Progressive Parties...
winning 4, the Christian Democratic Union winning one and the Republican PartyRepublican Party of ArmeniaThe Republican Party of Armenia is a national conservative political party in Armenia. It was the first political party in independent Armenia to be founded and registered . It is the largest party of the centre-right in Armenia, and claims to have 140,000 members...
also winning one.