vote to serve five-year terms) and the
Legislative Assembly (35 seats; members are elected by popular vote
to serve five-year terms)

elections: Assembly of People's Representatives - last held 20
February and 12 March 2000 (next to be held NA February 2005);
Legislative Assembly - last held 20 February and 12 March 2000 (next
to be held NA February 2005)

election results: Assembly of People's Representatives - percent of
vote by party - NA%; percent of vote by party - NA; and Legislative
Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - NA; note
- total seats by party in the Supreme Council were as follows: Union
of Democratic Forces 12, Communists 6, My Country Party of Action 4,
independents 73, other 10

note: the legislature became bicameral for the 5 February 1995
elections; the 2000 election results include both the Assembly of
People's Representatives and the Legislative Assembly

Laos:
unicameral National Assembly (99 seats; members elected by
popular vote to serve five-year terms; note - by presidential
decree, on 27 October 1997, the number of seats increased from 85 to
99)

elections: last held 21 December 1997 (next to be held NA 2002)

election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party -
LPRP or LPRP-approved (independent, non-party members) 99

Latvia:
unicameral Parliament or Saeima (100 seats; members are
elected by direct popular vote to serve four-year terms)

elections: last held 3 October 1998 (next to be held NA October
2002)

election results: percent of vote by party - People's Party 21%, LC
18%, TSP 14%, TB/LNNK 14%, Social Democrats 13%, New Party 7%; seats
by party - People's Party 24, LC 21, TB/LNNK 17, TSP 16, Social
Democrats 14, New Party 8

Lebanon:
unicameral National Assembly or Majlis Alnuwab (Arabic) or
Assemblee Nationale (French) (128 seats; members elected by popular
vote on the basis of sectarian proportional representation to serve
four-year terms)

elections: last held 27 August and 3 September 2000 (next to be
held NA 2004)

election results: percent of vote by party - Muslim 57% (of which
Sunni 25%, Sh'ite 25%, Druze 6%, Alawite less than 1%), Christian
43% (of which Maronite 23%); seats by party - Muslim 64 (of which
Sunni 27, Sh'ite 27, Druze 8, Alawite 2), Christian 64 (of which
Maronite 34)

Lesotho:
bicameral Parliament consists of t