Parliamentary elections in Bhutan 2013
The parliamentary elections in Bhutan in 2013 took place on May 31 and July 13, 2013 . For the second time since 2008 , the members of the National Assembly were elected in the Central Asian state of Bhutan .
A total of 381,790 voters registered in advance of the election. In the first round of elections in May, to which all four parties were admitted, around 55 percent of the registered voters took part. Voting took place using more than 4,000 voting computers borrowed from neighboring India . For the second round in July, only the two strongest parties from the first round, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bhutanese Party for Peace and Prosperity (DPT), were left to vote. 66 percent of all registered voters cast their votes in the 20 Dzongkhags and 47 constituencies.
As was the case five years earlier, the votes in the Bhutanese parliamentary elections were converted into parliamentary seats in the form of relative majority voting . The candidate who received the most votes in a constituency won the mandate. Hence the large discrepancy between the voting share of the two parties and the seats in parliament.
The previous Prime Minister Jigme Thinley (DPT) was replaced after the election by the chairman of the victorious PDP, Tshering Tobgay .
| Political party | First round | Second round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | proportion of | be right | proportion of | Seats | ||
| People's Democratic Party (PDP) | 68,650 | 32.53% | 138,760 | 54.88% | 32 | |
| Bhutanese Party for Peace and Prosperity (DPT) | 93,949 | 44.52% | 114.093 | 45.12% | 15th | |
| Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa | 35,962 | 17.04% | ||||
| Druk Chirwang Tshogpa | 12,457 | 5.90% | ||||
| total | 211.018 | 55.27% | 252.853 | 66.23% | 47 | |
The election result represented an upheaval in the still young political history of Bhutan. The royalist DPT was able to win 45 of the 47 parliamentary seats in 2008, but in July 2013 it lost two thirds of its seats to the PDP.
Web links
- Statistical Information on Elections in Bhutan (2006–2015). (pdf, 9 MB) Election Commission of Bhutan, pp. 33–75 , accessed on February 15, 2017 (English).
- Official website of the electoral commission. Election Commission of Bhutan, accessed February 15, 2017 .
- Official website of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). People's Democratic Party, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 (English).
- Official website of the Bhutanese Party for Peace and Prosperity (DPT). Druk Phuensum Tshogpa, accessed February 15, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notification on Second Parliamentary Elections 2013: National Assembly ( Memento of September 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: election-bhutan.org.bt , accessed on July 16, 2013.
- ↑ Nearly 400,000 voters for National Assembly's elections , in: bbs.bt , accessed on July 16, 2013.
- ↑ Bhutan's Election Commission completes polls process, hands over MP list to King , in: dnaindia.com , accessed July 16, 2013.
- ↑ Bhutan opposition party wins parliament election after calling for stronger ties with India ( Memento from July 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), in: washingtonpost.com , accessed on July 16, 2013.
- ↑ National Assembly Elections: Primary Round ( Memento of November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: election-bhutan.org.bt , accessed on July 16, 2013.
- ↑ National Assembly Elections: General Elections ( Memento of July 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: election-bhutan.org.bt , accessed on July 16, 2013.
- ↑ National Assembly Elections: General Elections ( Memento of July 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (results by constituency), in: election-bhutan.org.bt , accessed on July 16, 2013.
- ↑ Bhutan's opposition party scores upset win , in: aljazeera.com , accessed July 16, 2013.
