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Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Donald RAMOTAR
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Samuel HINDS
- Assembly: Guyana has a unicameral National Assembly with 65 seats.
Description of electoral system:
- The President is indirectly elected by the National Assembly to serve a 5-year term.
- The Prime Minister is appointed by the president.
- In the National Assembly 65 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***
*** Votes are tabulated using the Hare quota. 25 seats are divided between 10 geographical constituencies and 40 seats are in one, nation-wide constituency .
Population:
- Population: 741,908 (July 2011 est.)
Future elections
- Parliamentary - 2016
Past elections
- Parliamentary - November 28, 2011
- Parliamentary - August 28, 2006
- Parliamentary - March 19, 2001
Last Updated on 06/19/2012
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