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The June 2026 parliamentary elections are Armenia’s first regular National Assembly contest since 2017, after two snap elections triggered by the 2018 Velvet Revolution and the protracted post-2020 war crisis, including the displacement of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. Voters are choosing a minimum 101-seat unicameral parliament through closed-list proportional representation, with 18 candidate lists, and roughly 2.4 million registered voters; the campaign formally runs from 8th of May to 5th of June.
The electoral arena is therefore broad, and somewhat structured: Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party faces opposition challengers, including Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia Alliance, Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia, and Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Armenia. Election observation missions describe the environment as polarised and shaped by the peace process with Azerbaijan, the constitutional and judiciary reforms, the country’s foreign policy orientation, Church-state tensions, and criminal cases against opposition figures.