At stake in this election:

• 113 seats in the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Mamadou TANDJA *
• Head of Government: President TANDJA Mamadou
• Assembly: Niger has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) with 113 seats.

* The electoral system is two-round.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
• In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), 105 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms and 8 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.***

*** In the ordinal tier, the threshold is 5 percent. There are 8 multi-seat districts corresponding to the country's eight regions plus Niamey. In the nominal tier, 8 single-seat districts are drawn to favor recognized minority groups.

Main parties in the electoral race:

• Party: National Movement for the Society of Development (MNSD-NASSARA) / French: Mouvement National pour la Société du Développement (MNSD-NASSARA)
  • Leader: Seyni OUMAROU
  • Seats won in this election: 76
  • Seats won in last election: 0
• Party: Social Democratic Rally / Rassemblement social démocratique-Gaskiya (RSD-Gaskiya)
  • Leader: Amadou CHEIFFOU
  • Seats won in this election: 15
  • Seats won in last election: 0
• Party: Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP-Jama'a) / Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès-Jama'a
  • Leader: N/A
  • Seats won in this election: 7
  • Seats won in last election: 0

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 15,672,194 (2009)
• Registered Voters: 6,059,961 (2009)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 7,786,106 (2009)

·         Is Niger a signatory to CEDAW: No

·         Has Niger ratified CEDAW: Yes, accession (8 October 1999)

·         Gender Quota: Yes

·         Female candidates in this election: No

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 11 (following the 2009 elections)

·         Human Development Index Position: 188 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Very High (2014)

Disability Data:

·         Is Niger a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 March 2007)

·         Has Niger ratified CRPD: Yes (24 June 2008)

·         Population with a disability: 2,350,829 (est.)