Armenian parliamentary election, 2003

Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 25 May 2003. There were 56 constituency seats and 75 elected on a national basis using proportional representation. They saw the Republican Party of Armenia emerge as the largest party, with 33 of the 131 seats. However, the elections were strongly criticized by international election monitors, who cited widespread fraud and noted that they fell short of democratic standards.

Results

Party	Constituency			National			Total seats	+/-
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
Republican Party of Armenia	124,950	11.82	10	278,712	23.66	23	33	-
Justice			0	161,533	13.71	14	14	New
Rule of Law	96,079	9.09	7	148,381	12.98	12	19	+13
Armenian Revolutionary Federation			0	134,849	11.45	11	11	+3
National Unity			0	104,941	8.91	9	9	New
United Labour Party			0	66,817	5.67	6	6	New
Liberal Democratic Union of Armenia			0	282,599	23.99	0	0	New
Mighty Fatherland			0			0	0	0
Democratic Liberal Party			0			0	0	0
Dignity, Democracy, Motherland			0			0	0	New
Union of Producers and Women			0			0	0	New
Armenian Communist Party			0			0	0	-10
People's Party of Armenia			0			0	0	-
Law and Unity			0			0	0	New
Republic	15,298	1.45	1			0	1	New
All Armenian Labour Party	13,556	1.28	1			0	1	New
Independents	694,344	65.66	37	-	-	-	37	+5
Invalid/blank votes	6,926	-	-	10,424	-	-	-	-
Total	1,064,474	100	56	1,188,256	100	75	131	0
Source: IFES, IPU