Political Parties in Africa: Challenges for Sustained Multiparty

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No. Country Electoral system for national legislature (2006) Political Parties in Africa: Challenges for Sustained Multiparty Democracy Table 4.4: African electoral systems and electoral system family 1 Algeria List PR PR 2 Angola List PR PR 3 Benin List PR PR Electoral system family 4 Botswana FPTP Plurality/majority 5 Burkina Faso List PR PR 6 Burundi List PR PR 7 Cameroon PBV/List PR + FPTP Plurality/majority 8 Cape Verde List PR PR 9 Central African Republic TRS Plurality/majority 10 Chad PBV/List PR + TRS Plurality/majority 11 Comoros TRS Plurality/majority 12 Congo TRS Plurality/majority 13 Côte d’Ivoire FPTP + PBV Plurality/majority 14 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) TRS (transitional) Plurality/majority 15 Djibouti PBV Plurality/majority 16 Egypt TRS Plurality/majority 17 Equatorial Guinea List PR PR 18 Eritrea FPTP (transitional) Plurality/majority 19 Ethiopia FPTP Plurality/majority 20 Gabon TRS Plurality/majority 21 Gambia FPTP Plurality/majority 22 Ghana FPTP Plurality/majority 23 Guinea Parallel (List PR + FPTP) Mixed 24 Guinea-Bissau List PR PR 25 Kenya FPTP Plurality/majority 26 Lesotho MMP (FPTP + List PR) Mixed 27 Liberia (Transitional) 28 Madagascar FPTP + List PR Plurality/majority 29 Malawi FPTP Plurality/majority 30 Mali TRS Plurality/majority 31 Mauritania TRS Plurality/majority 32 Mauritius Block Vote Plurality/majority
No. Country Electoral system for national legislature (2006) 33 Morocco List PR PR 34 Mozambique List PR PR 35 Namibia List PR PR 36 Niger List PR + FPTP PR 37 Nigeria FPTP Plurality/majority 38 Rwanda List PR PR 39 São Tomé and Príncipe List PR PR 40 Senegal Parallel (PBV + List PR) Mixed 41 Seychelles Parallel (PBV + List PR) Mixed 42 Sierra Leone List PR PR 43 South Africa List PR PR 44 Sudan FPTP Plurality/majority 45 Swaziland FPTP Plurality/majority 46 Tanzania FPTP Plurality/majority 47 Togo TRS Plurality/majority 48 Tunisia Parallel (PBV + List PR) Mixed 49 Uganda FPTP Plurality/majority 50 Zambia FPTP Plurality/majority 51 Zimbabwe FPTP Plurality/majority International Idea Electoral system family Source: Compiled by the author from Reynolds, A., B. Reilly and A. Ellis, Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook (Stockholm: International IDEA, 2005), available at http://www.idea.int/publications/esd/upload/ESD_full_with%20final%20changes%20inserted. pdf, downloaded 20 July 2006. Electoral systems are important because they have crucial impact on party performance, and particularly on political parties’ prospects of winning (or at least sharing) power after the election. It is therefore common in severely divided societies for electoral systems to become the focus of heightened political debate and polemic—hence the debate on what electoral system is most representative. Electoral systems are essential parts of the democratic process. Depending on what electoral systems are used, they are vehicles for ensuring that parliament, the main representative institution, the face of the nation, so to speak, is representative. The extent to which parliament is representative is a function of whether the electoral system is capable of reflecting the diversity of interests, ideologies, concerns and African Party and Electoral Systems
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