The Parliament of Cyprus is unicameral. The 80 members of the House of Representatives are directly elected in 6 multi-member constituencies with proportional representation and preferential system.
Voting is compulsory.
The seats set aside for the Turkish-Cypriot community have been vacant since 1964 when the members withdrew. These elections only concerned the seats alloted to the Greek-Cypriot community. All these parties also were fervent supporter of the adhesion of the country to the European Union. The DISY and DIKO have an absolute majority of 30 seats.