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Upcoming Elections

  • Presidential
    2015
  • Parliamentary
    2017

Burkina Faso
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burkina Faso
  • Region: Africa

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Blaise COMPAORE
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Luc-Adolphe TIAO
  • Assembly: Burkina Faso has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale) with 111 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
  • The Prime Minister is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament.
  • In the National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale) 111 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***

*** There is one nationwide, multi-member, constituency with a district magnitude of 15 and 13 multi-member constituencies with district magnitudes ranging form 2 to 10.

Population:

  • Population: 17,275,115 (July 2012 )

Future elections

  • Parliamentary - 2017
  • Presidential - 2015

Past elections

Last Updated on 06/25/2012

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