General Information
At stake in this election:
- 65 seats in the National Assembly
Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Bharrat JAGDEO
- 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 .
Main parties in the electoral race:
- Party: People's Progressive Party (PPP)
- Leader: Donald RAMOTAR
- Seats won in this election: 32
- Seats won in last election: 36
- Party: A Partnership for National Unity (PNCR-1G)**
- Leader: David A. GRANGER
- Seats won in this election: 26
- Seats won in last election: 22
- Party: Alliance For Change (AFC)
- Leader: Raphael TROTMAN
- Seats won in this election: 7
- Seats won in last election: N/A
** The Partnership for National Unity is an alliance of the People's National Congress, the Guyana Action Party and the Working People's Alliance
Population and number of registered voters:
- Population: 755,883 (2011)
- Registered Voters: 475,496 (2011)
Gender Data:
· Female Population: 377,749 (2011)
· Is Guyana a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980)
· Has Guyana ratified CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980)
· Gender Quota: Yes
· Female candidates in this election: Yes
· Number of Female Parliamentarians: 21 (following the 2011 elections)
· Human Development Index Position: 124 (2014)
· Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: N/A
Disability Data:
· Is Guyana a signatory to CRPD: Yes (11 April 2007)
· Has Guyana ratified CRPD: Yes (10 September 2014)
· Population with a disability: 113,382 (est.)