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  • Parliamentary
    2014

Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg
  • Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
  • Region: Europe

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: Grand Duke HENRI
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Jean-Claude JUNCKER
  • Assembly: Luxembourg has a unicameral Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Deputes) with 60 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The Grand Duke is hereditary N/A.
  • In the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Deputes) 60 members are elected by open list proportional representation in multi-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.***

*** There are four multi-member districts with seats apportioned in proportion to their populations. Voters may vote for party lists, or they may cast preference votes within party lists. This open list system allows for panachage. That is, each voter has a fixed number of preference votes to cast, and she may distribute them among multiple parties' lists.

Population:

  • Population: 491,775 (July 2009 est.)

Future elections

  • Parliamentary - 2014

Past elections

Last Updated on 02/04/2010

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