2021 Armenian parliamentary election

2021 Armenian parliamentary election
Armenia
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All 101 seats in the National Assembly
(plus additional and leveling seats)
Turnout49.37%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Civil Contract Nikol Pashinyan 53.95 71 −11
Armenia Alliance Robert Kocharyan 21.11 29 New
I Have Honor Alliance Arthur Vanetsyan 5.22 7 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Nikol Pashinyan (Interim)
My Step Alliance
Nikol Pashinyan
Civil Contract

Snap parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 20 June 2021. The elections had initially been scheduled for 9 December 2023, but were called earlier due to a political crisis following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War and an alleged attempted coup in February 2021.[1]

Nikol Pashinyan, who had served as prime minister since 2018, resigned in April 2021 and subsequently the seventh National Assembly was dissolved on 10 May.[2] Pashinyan continued to serve as acting prime minister until the elections were held. Following the election, Pashinyan's Civil Contract party received 54% of the vote and won 71 seats, a majority in the 107-seat parliament. The opposition Armenia Alliance, finished second with 29 seats, while the I Have Honor Alliance won 7 seats. No other party or alliance surpassed the electoral threshold required to win a seat. The opposition claimed there had been electoral fraud during the elections,[3] while the OSCE assessed the election as meeting international standards and described it as; "marred by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric" but was "positive overall."[4]

  1. ^ "Armenia PM says open to early elections to end crisis". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  2. ^ "Voting for Election of Prime Minister Takes Place". www.parliament.am. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  3. ^ "Armenia election: PM Nikol Pashinyan wins post-war poll". BBC. 21 June 2021.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference osce was invoked but never defined (see the help page).