2012 Georgian parliamentary election

2012 Georgian parliamentary election
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All 150 seats in the Parliament
76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout61.31% (Increase 8.49 pp)[1]
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Bidzina Ivanishvili Mikheil Saakashvili
Party Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia United National Movement
Alliance Georgian Dream –
Leader since 21 April 2012 October 2001
Last election 5 seats, 21.51%[a] 119 seats, 59.18%
Seats won 85 65
Seat change Increase80 Decrease54
Constituency vote 1,141,404 869,109
% and swing 53.47% 40.72%
National vote 1,181,862 867,432
% and swing 54.97% (Increase33.46pp) 40.34% (Decrease18.84pp)
Results of the constituency vote by constituencies
Results of the proportional vote by electoral districts
Composition of the Georgian Parliament after the election
Prime Minister before election

Vano Merabishvili
UNM

Elected Prime Minister

Bidzina Ivanishvili
Georgian Dream

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Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 1 October 2012. The opposition Georgian Dream coalition of billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili won a majority of the seats. President Mikheil Saakashvili conceded his party's defeat.[2]

The elections were held in accordance with a reformed electoral system agreed upon by the government and several opposition parties in 2011.[3] 77 of the 150 seats were allocated proportionally to party lists, the remaining 73 to the winners in single-member constituencies.[4] The new parliament was relocated from the capital of Tbilisi to the country's second largest city of Kutaisi later, in 2012.[3] A new government was also formed following the 2013 presidential election as envisaged by the 2010 constitutional amendments.[5] South Ossetia and Abkhazia did not vote.

  1. ^ Results 2012. Central Election Commission
  2. ^ Antidze, Margarita; Gutterman, Steve (2 October 2012), Georgia's president accepts his party lost poll, Reuters
  3. ^ a b "Saakashvili Clarifies Position on Parliament Relocation Issue". Civil. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  4. ^ Antidze, Margarita; Gutterman, Steve (1 October 2012), Georgian opposition celebrates as both sides see victory, Reuters
  5. ^ "Key Points of Newly Adopted Constitution". Civil. Retrieved 21 September 2012.


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