National Assembly Of Togo
The unicameral National Assembly is Togo's legislative body. It has a total of 81 members who are elected in a party list proportional representation system. Members serve five-year terms.
Following the 2007 parliamentary election, political party distribution in the National Assembly is as follows:
| Parties | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rally for the Togolese People (Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais) | 922,636 | 39.36 | 50 |
| Union of Forces for Change (Union des Forces du Changement) | 867,507 | 37.01 | 27 |
| Action Committee for Renewal (Comité d'Action pour la Renouveau) | 192,618 | 8.22 | 4 |
| Independents | 59,614 | 2.54 | — |
| Patriotic Pan-African Convergence (Convergence Patriotique Panafricaine) | 43,898 | 1.87 | — |
| Democratic Convention of African Peoples (Convention Démocratique des Peuples Africains) | 38,347 | 1.64 | — |
| Party of Democrats for Renewal (Parti des Démocrates pour le Renouveau) | 24,260 | 1.03 | — |
| Socialist Pact for Renewal (Pacte Socialiste pour le Renouveau) | 23,254 | 0.99 | — |
| Alliance of Democrats for Integral Development (Alliance des Démocrates pour le Développement Intégral) | 21,441 | 0.91 | — |
| Democratic Alliance for the Fatherland (Alliance Démocratique pour la Patrie) | 15,444 | 0.66 | — |
| Democratic Pan-African Party (Parti Démocratique Panafricain) | 14,141 | 0.60 | — |
| Citizens' Movement for Democracy and Development (Mouvement Citoyen pour la Démocratie et le Développement) | 12,741 | 0.54 | — |
| Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social) | 8,362 | 0.36 | — |
| The Nest (Le Nid) | 8,269 | 0.35 | — |
| Popular Union for the Republic (Union Populaire pour la République) | 7,814 | 0.33 | — |
| Togolese Alliance of Democrats (Alliance Togolaise des Démocrates) | 7,542 | 0.32 | — |
| Party for Renewal and Redemption (Parti pour le Renouveau et la Rédemption) | 5,211 | 0.22 | — |
| Union of Socialist Democrats of Togo (Union des Démocrates Socialistes du Togo) | 4,229 | 0.18 | — |
| Juvento | 3,873 | 0.17 | — |
| New Popular Dynamic (Nouvelle Dynamique Populaire) | 3,536 | 0.15 | — |
| Movement of Centrist Republicans (Mouvement des Républicains Centristes) | 3,157 | 0.13 | — |
| Coordination of New Forces (Coordination des Forces Nouvelles) | 2,170 | 0.09 | — |
| Believers' Movement for Equality and Peace (Mouvement des Croyants pour l'Égalité et la Paix) | 1,718 | 0.07 | — |
| Regrouping of the Live Forces of Youth for Change (Regroupement des Forces Vives de la Jeunesse pour le Changement) | 1,550 | 0.07 | — |
| Party of Action for Change in Togo (Parti d’Action pour le Changement au Togo) | 1,056 | 0.05 | — |
| JD | 710 | 0.03 | — |
| Party of the Union for Renovation and Development (Parti d'Union pour la Rénovation et le Développement) | 221 | 0.01 | — |
| PNTS | 140 | 0.00 | — |
| FADD | 114 | 0.00 | — |
| Others | 48,535 | 2.07 | — |
| Total (turnout 85%) | 2,344,108 | 81 | |
| Source: CENI | |||
In the previous parliamentary term (2002–2007), party representation was as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rally of the Togolese People | 72 | -7 | ||
| Rally for the Support of Democracy and Development | 3 | New | ||
| Juvento | 2 | New | ||
| Union for Democracy and Social Progress | 2 | New | ||
| Believers' Movement for Equality and Peace | 1 | New | ||
| Independents | 1 | -1 | ||
| Total | 81 | 0 |
Six women occupied seats in the 2002–2007 National Assembly.
Abass Bonfoh is the current President of the National Assembly (since 2005).
Read more about National Assembly Of Togo: Previous National Assembly Election Results, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words national and/or assembly:
“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“Our assembly being now formed not by ourselves but by the goodwill and sprightly imagination of our readers, we have nothing to do but to draw up the curtain ... and to discover our chief personage on the stage.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)