Electoral system for national legislature

Algeria Electoral Code (2012)

Article 84

The National People's Assembly is elected for a five (5) year term according to the list-based proportional system. In each constituency, candidates are registered, according to their ranking on lists including as many candidates as the number of seats to be filled, with the addition of three (3) surrogate candidates.

Article 85

The voting system laid down in Article 84 above provides for a distribution of seats proportional to the number of votes won by each list with the application of the rule of the largest remainder method. The lists that do not win at least five percent (5%) of the votes cast are not admitted to the allocation of seats.

Article 86

For each constituency, the electoral quotient taken into account for the allocation of seats to be filled is the result of the ratio between the number of votes cast, minus, where appropriate, the votes won by the lists that did not reach the threshold referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 85  above, and the number of seats to be filled.

Article 87

Under the provisions of Articles 84. 85, and 86 of this law, the seat to be filled are divided as follows:

1. In each constituency, the electoral quotient is determined under the conditions laid down by Article 86 of this law;
2. Each list gets as many seats as the number of times it has received the electoral quotient;
3. After the allocation of seats to the lists that have obtained the electoral quotient as specified in the preceding paragraph, the remaining votes of lists having obtained seats, are ranked according to the highest number of votes. The remaining seats are allocated according to this classification. If, for the allocation of the last seat, two or more lists get an equal number of votes, the seat goes to the oldest candidate.

Article 92

Each candidate list is presented either under the umbrella of one or more political parties, or either as an independent list.

The members of the National People Assembly are elected through a closed-list proportional system.

Seats are allocated with the Hare-Neimeyer method with a 5% threshold.