page_title: Parliament of Montenegro
section_title: Elections
hierarchical_section_title: Parliament of Montenegro / Elections
caption_attribution_description: English: Old photograph of the Montenegrin parliament building
context_page_description: The Parliament of Montenegro is the unicameral legislature of Montenegro. The Parliament currently has 81 members, elected for a four-year term. Following the 2006 independence referendum, the Parliament declared and ratified the independence of Montenegro on 3 June 2006. The system of the house is proportional representation.
  The current Speaker of the Parliament is Ivan Brajović, while Deputy Speakers are Branimir Gvozdenović and Genci Nimanbegu. Opposition is awarded the remaining Deputy Speaker seat, which is currently vacant due to the ongoing boycott of 39 opposition MPs following the alleged electoral fraud which took place during the latest parliamentary election.
context_section_description: The Parliament has 81 members elected by a D'Hondt method system of proportional representation for a four-year term.
  The 81 seats of the Parliament of Montenegro are elected in a single nationwide constituency by closed list proportional representation. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with a 3% electoral threshold. However, minority groups that account for at least 15% of the population in a district are given an exemption that lowers the electoral threshold to 0.7% if their list fails to cross the 3% threshold. For ethnic Croats, if no list representing the population passes the 0.7% threshold, the list with the most votes will win one seat if it receives more than 0.35% of the vote.
  The most recent elections were held on 16 October 2016 and the next are scheduled for autumn 2020.
caption: Old photograph of the Montenegrin parliament building (right) and the current Presidential residence (left)
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