ular vote to serve five-year terms)
elections: House of Keys - last held 23 November 2006 (next to be
held November 2011)
election results: House of Keys - percent of vote by party - NA;
seats by party - Liberal Vannin Party 2, Man Labor Party 1,
independents 21

Israel
unicameral Knesset (120 seats; members elected by popular
vote to serve four-year terms)
elections: last held 28 March 2006 (next scheduled to be held in
2010)
election results: percent of vote by party - Kadima 22%, Labor
15.1%, Likud 9%, SHAS 9.5%, Yisrael Beiteinu 9%, NU/NRP 7.1%, GIL
5.9%, Torah and Shabbat Judaism 4.7%, Meretz-YAHAD 3.8%, United Arab
List 3%, Balad 2.3%, HADASH 2.7%; seats by party - Kadima 29, Labor
19, Likud 12, SHAS 12, Yisrael Beiteinu 11, NU/NRP 9, GIL 7, Torah
and Shabbat Judaism 6, Meretz-YAHAD 5, United Arab List 4, Balad 3,
HADASH 3

Italy
bicameral Parliament or Parlamento consists of the Senate or
Senato della Repubblica (315 seats; elected by proportional vote
with the winning coalition in each region receiving 55% of seats
from that region; members serve five-year terms) and the Chamber of
Deputies or Camera dei Deputati (630 seats; elected by popular vote
with the winning national coalition receiving 54% of chamber seats;
members serve five-year terms); note - electoral vote reform passed
in December 2005
elections: Senate - last held 10 April 2006 (next to be held in
2011); Chamber of Deputies - last held 10 April 2006 (next to be
held May 2011)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by
party - The Union 158 (DS 62, DL 39, RC 27, Together with the Union
11, other 19), House of Freedoms 154 (FI 79, AN 41, UDC 21, LEGA
13), other 3; Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA;
seats by party - The Union 348 (DS 220, RC 41, Rose in the Fist 18,
Italy of Values 17, PdCI 16, Greens Federation 15, UDEUR 10, other
11), House of Freedoms 276 (FI 140, AN 71, Union of Christian and
Center Democrats 39, LEGA 26), other 6

Jamaica
bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (a 21-member
body appointed by the governor general on the recommendations of the
prime minister and the leader of the opposition; ruling party is
allocated 13 seats, and the opposition is allocated eight seats) and
the House of Representatives (60 seats; members are elected by
popular vote to serve five-year terms)
elections: last he