Voting system:
Party-list simple majority vote.
Vacancies arising between general elections are filled through by-elections.

Voter requirements:
- age: 18 years
- Lao citizenship

Eligibility:
- age: 21 years
- Lao citizenship
- ineligibility: insanity, deprivation of civil and political rights by court decision

Incompatibilities:
(not applicable)

Candidacy requirements:
- support of local committees or mass organizations

• Results
• Distribution of seats: by political group, profession, sex, age

Purpose of elections
Elections were held for all seats of the new Parliament provided for in the August 1991 Constitution. General elections had previously been held for a 79-member Supreme People's Assembly in March 1989.

Background and outcome of elections
In December 1975, a 45-member Supreme People's Assembly was appointed to draft a new Constitution. Only in February 1986, however, was work on a draft reported to be complete. A new, 79-member Assembly was directly elected in March 1989, and approved the new basic law in August 1991. This document, among other things, increased the power of Parliament and cemented market-oriented economic changes.
All 154 candidates - of whom 16 women, 34 nominated by state institutions at the central level and 120 by different state and public services at the local level - for the 85 seats at stake were approved by the ruling, communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP), although four ran as independents. The LPRP is the dominant force in the umbrella Lao Front for National Reconstruction. Campaign issues focused to a great extent on the country's social and economic development, the latter promoted significantly by ex-President of the Republic Kaysone Phomvihane. Final election results were only compiled by January 1993, because many ballots had to be brought in from remote villages.
The newly elected Assembly held its first meeting on 20 February. Two days later, incumbent President of the Republic Nouhak Phoumsavan and Prime Minister Khamtay Siphandon were confirmed in their posts, and the appointment of a new Council of Ministers was approved.

Statistics
LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC National Assembly

1. Results of the elections

Number of registered electors	2,024,756
Voters	2,009,727 (99.33%)

2. Distribution of seats according to political group

Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP)

85

3. Distribution of seats according to education

Primary school	3
Lower Secondary school	33
Upper Secondary school	28
University and higher	21
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	85

4. Distribution of seats according to sex

Men	77
Women	8
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	85

5. Distribution of seats according to age

Under 40 years	7
40-49 "	38
50-59 "	28
60-79 "	12
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	85
Average Age: 50 years

Term:
- duration: 5 years (term of House)
- reasons for interruption of the term: resignation, President's responsibility called into question, death, dissolution of the Assembly

Appointment:
- elected by all Members of the Assembly
- the election is held at the beginning of the new legislature
- before validation of mandates and swearing-in

Eligibility:
- any Member may be a candidate, but must give formal notification of his/her candidature before the inaugural session of the Assembly

Voting system:
- formal, public vote by a show of hands
- one round of voting
- a simple majority is required

Procedures / results :
- the outgoing President presides over the Assembly during the voting
- the President supervises the voting
- the outgoing President announces the results without delay
- the results cannot be challenged

Board:
- the Standing Committee is regulated by the Standing Orders
- consists of the President of the Assembly and 7 Members
- members serve a five-year term
- meets once monthly when convened by the President
- assists the President and constitutes a genuine collegial presidency

Material facilities:
- allowance: 300,000 kips per month
- official residence
- official car
- secretariat
- additional staff
- domestic personnel
- bodyguards

Chairing of public sittings:
- can open, adjourn and close sittings
- ensures respect for provisions of the Constitution and Standing Orders
- takes disciplinary measures in the event of disturbance, and lifts such measures
- establishes the list of speakers, gives and withdraws permission to speak
- establishes the order in which amendments are taken up and selects which amendments are to be debated
- calls for a vote, decides how it is to be carried out, verifies the voting procedure and cancels a vote in the event of irregularities
- checks the quorum
- authenticates the texts adopted and the records of debates
- interprets the rules or other regulations governing the life of the Assembly

Special powers:
- advises with regard to the establishment of the budget
- examines the proposal made by the Secretariat Commission of the Standing Committee for the recruitment, assignment and promotion of staff
- appoints the Clerk after having consulted the Standing Committee
- organizes the services of Parliament after having consulted the Standing Committee
- plays a specific role in the conduct of foreign affairs or defence matters
- is responsible for relations with foreign Parliaments
- is responsible for safety, and in this capacity, can call the police in the event of disturbance in the Chamber

Speaking and voting rights, other functions:
- takes the floor in legislative debates
- provides guidelines for the interpretation or completion of the text under discussion
- takes part in voting
- proposes bills or amendments
- intervenes in the parliamentary oversight procedure
- ensures the constitutionality of laws
- may appoint members of the Constitutional Court
- is consulted in certain circumstances (dissolution, appointment of the Prime Minister, etc.)