{"iso":"PS","name":"Palestine","flag":"\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","vote":"Legislative Council \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2006-01-25","source":"2006 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling feed. Shares are the national list vote at the Palestinian Legislative Council election of 25 January 2006, the last national election held, official results as published by the Central Elections Commission. The council was dissolved in 2018, elections called for 2021 were postponed indefinitely, and governance has been split between the West Bank and Gaza since 2007. Parties below one percent are aggregated as others.","shares":{"HAM":44.4,"FAT":41.4,"PFLP":4.2,"ALT":2.9,"IP":2.7,"TW":2.4,"OTH":2.0},"polls":[],"parties":{"HAM":{"name":"Hamas","color":"#1B7A3D","name_en":"Hamas, Change and Reform list"},"FAT":{"name":"Fatah","color":"#F1C40F"},"PFLP":{"name":"al-Jabha al-Sha'biyya","color":"#C8102E","name_en":"Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine"},"ALT":{"name":"al-Badil","color":"#8E44AD","name_en":"The Alternative"},"IP":{"name":"Filastin al-Mustaqilla","color":"#E67E22","name_en":"Independent Palestine"},"TW":{"name":"al-Tariq al-Thalith","color":"#2E86C1","name_en":"Third Way"},"OTH":{"name":"Other lists","color":"#9a9a9a"}},"primer":{"system":"UN observer state, semi-presidential authority under occupation, with divided governance","head_of_state":"President Mahmoud Abbas, elected in 2005. His term formally expired in 2009","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (Palestinian Authority). Hamas has run Gaza separately since 2007","legislature":"The Palestinian Legislative Council was dissolved in 2018 and has not sat since the 2006 election.","electoral_system":"The 2006 election used a parallel system, half the 132 seats by national proportional lists and half in district races. No national vote has been possible since.","government_now":"The Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank, while Gaza, devastated by the war that began in October 2023, is subject to a ceasefire framework from late 2025.","context":"A wave of recognitions in 2024 and 2025 brought the number of states recognising Palestine past 150. Reunifying governance and holding long-delayed elections are preconditions most donors set for reconstruction.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"HAM":["Hamas","Islamic Resistance Movement (Change and Reform list)","Islamist national-resistance movement; won the 2006 election and has governed Gaza separately since 2007; designated a terrorist group by the US, EU and Israel."],"FAT":["Fatah","Palestinian National Liberation Movement","Secular nationalist movement founded by Yasser Arafat; dominant faction of the PLO and of the West Bank Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas's main rival."],"PFLP":["al-Jabha al-Sha'biyya","Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine","Left-wing Marxist-Leninist secular nationalist faction; contested 2006 as the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa list."],"ALT":["al-Badil","The Alternative","Left-wing electoral coalition of the DFLP, the People's Party and allied independents."],"IP":["Filastin al-Mustaqilla","Independent Palestine","Reformist independent list led by Mustafa Barghouti."],"TW":["al-Tariq al-Thalith","Third Way","Centrist, liberal-reformist list associated with Salam Fayyad and Hanan Ashrawi."],"OTH":["Other lists","","Independents and minor lists that won district seats."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Palestinian Legislative Council","as_of":"2006 election","total":132,"seats":{"HAM":74,"FAT":45,"PFLP":3,"ALT":2,"IP":2,"TW":2,"OTH":4}},"region_winners":{"Gaza":"HAM","West Bank":"HAM"},"region_meta":{"election":"2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election (25 January 2006)","source":"Palestinian Central Elections Commission results, aggregated to the two territories","note":"The last Palestinian legislative election was held in 2006. Each territory is shaded by the list that won the most constituency (district) seats there: the Hamas-backed Change and Reform list won a majority of district seats in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The 66 proportional seats were filled from a single nationwide list, so this reflects the district contests only. No national legislative election has been held since."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2026-11-01","title":"Palestinian legislative election","chamber":"Legislative Council","type":"scheduled"}}