For more information on gender quotas, visit International IDEA's global database of quotas for women: http://www.quotaproject.org/
- Reserved seats: certain districts for women candidates only
Provisions requiring that only women candidates are allowed to stand for election in certain districts ensuring that those districts will only return women representatives. This means that certain voters will only be allowed to vote for women candidates and male candidates from these districts will be required to run in other districts. - Reserved seats: a tier for women candidates only
An upper tier with only women candidates, added to the other element of the electoral system. This means that the voters vote for the candidates of their district as well as for the women candidates in the women only tier. - Reserved seats: best loser system
Provisions under which previously unsuccessful candidates with the most votes in a certain group (e.g. among women) will be elected to the legislature even if they have fewer votes than other candidates do, until the previously set quota is reached. E.g. among the women candidates, those who received the most votes up to the number set by the quota are elected even though male candidates may have won more votes. - Nomination: percentage regulations without placement mandate/rank-order rules
Provisions requiring that a certain percentage of candidates of the party list are women; however it is not regulated as to where the women are placed on the list. - Nominations: percentage regulations with placement mandate/rank-order rules (top-ranking, zipper quotas)
Provisions requiring that a certain percentage of women are placed in certain positions on the party list, for example every other place goes to a women, called “zipper quotas” or other rank-order rules as for example in every group of five on the list, two must be of the other gender.
