Armenian parliamentary election, 2012

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All 131 to the National Assembly
66 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Serzh Sargsyan	Gagik Tsarukyan	Levon Ter-Petrosyan
Party	Republican Party	Prosperous Armenia	ANC
Last election	64 seats, 48.8%	25 seats, 19.1%	New party
Seats won	69 seats	37 seats	7 seats
Seat change	+5	+12	+7
Percentage	52.7%	28.2%	5.3%
Swing	3.9%	9.1%	5.3%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Artur Baghdasaryan	Vahan Hovhannisyan	Raffi Hovannisian
Party	Rule of Law	ARF	Heritage
Last election	9 seats, 7.1%	16 seats, 12.2%	7 seats, 6%
Seats won	6 seats	5 seats	5 seats
Seat change	-3	-11	-2
Percentage	4.6%	3.8%	3.8%
Swing	2.5%	8.4%	2.2%

Prime Minister before election

Tigran Sargsyan
Republican Party

Elected Prime Minister

Tigran Sargsyan
Republican Party

A parliamentary election was held on May 6, 2012 in Armenia.

President Serzh Sargsyan's ruling Republican Party gained more majority of the parliament seats. Armenia's wealthiest man Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia came second with about one fourth of the seats, while ANC, ARF, Rule of Law and Heritage won less than 10 percent each.

In 2011, Armenia faced unprecedented opposition protests over the disputed 2008 presidential election, amongst other issues. Since then changes welcomed by the EU have been made, who stated that "the next parliamentary and presidential elections will be an important benchmark in Armenia reform's path."

Out of a total of 131 seats in the National Assembly, 90 are distributed between parties using a proportional system, while the other 41 are elected from constituencies by a majoritarian voting system. The election threshold is 5% for parties and 7% for alliances, in this case the only alliance was the Armenian National Congress.

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