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Upcoming Elections

  • Parliamentary
    First Round
    2015
  • Presidential
    First Round
    2016

Chad
  • Chad
  • Republic of Chad
  • Region: Africa

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Idriss DEBY
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Djimrangar DADNADJI
  • Assembly: Chad has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) with 188 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.
  • In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), 70 members are elected by absolute majority vote in single-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms and 116 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***

*** A Party Block Vote in multi-member districts is used if a list gains an absolute majority of the vote. If no list obtains the majority of the vote, members are elected through party-list proportional representation.

Population:

  • Population: 10,975,648 (July 2012 est.)

Future elections

  • Presidential
    First Round - 2016
  • Parliamentary
    First Round - 2015

Past elections

Last Updated on 03/08/2013

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