y party - PCR 12, PS 12, UDF 11, RPR 5, others 7; Regional
Council - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - PCR 7,
UDF 8, PS 6, RPR 4, various right-wing candidates 15, various
left-wing candidates 5

note: Reunion elects three representatives to the French Senate;
elections last held 14 April 1996 (next to be held NA 2001); results
- percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - RPR 1, PCR 2;
Reunion also elects five deputies to the French National Assembly;
elections last held 25 May and 1 June 1997 (next to be held NA
2002); results - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party -
PCR 3, PS 1, and RPR-UDF 1

Romania:
bicameral Parliament or Parlament consists of the Senate or
Senat (140 seats; members are elected by direct popular vote on a
proportional representation basis to serve four-year terms) and the
Chamber of Deputies or Adunarea Deputatilor (345 seats; members are
elected by direct popular vote on a proportional representation
basis to serve four-year terms)

elections: Senate - last held 26 November 2000 (next to be held in
the fall of 2004); Chamber of Deputies - last held 26 November 2000
(next to be held in the fall of 2004)

election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - PDSR 37.1%,
PRM 21.0%, PD 7.6%, PNL 7.5%, UDMR 6.9%; seats by party - PDSR 65,
PRM 37, PD 13, PNL 13, UDMR 12; Chamber of Deputies - percent of
vote by party - PDSR 36.6%, PRM 19.5%, PD 7.0%, PNL, 6.9%, UDMR
6.8%; seats by party - PDSR 155, PRM 84, PD 31, PNL 30, UDMR 27,
ethnic minorities 18

Russia:
bicameral Federal Assembly or Federalnoye Sobraniye consists
of the Federation Council or Sovet Federatsii (178 seats; as of July
2000, members appointed by the top executive and legislative
officials in each of the 89 federal administrative units - oblasts,
krays, republics, autonomous okrugs and oblasts, and the federal
cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg; members serve four-year
terms) and the State Duma or Gosudarstvennaya Duma (450 seats; half
elected by proportional representation from party lists winning at
least 5% of the vote, and half from single-member constituencies;
members are elected by direct popular vote to serve four-year terms)

elections: State Duma - last held 19 December 1999 (next to be held
NA December 2003)

election results: State Duma - percent of vote received by parties
clearing the 5% threshol