Georgia
Parliament
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Shalva
Papuashvili
(Male)
Year of birth
1976
Additional information
Elected on 29 Dec. 2021.
Secretary general
Secretary General
Ketevan
Kvinikadze
(Female)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 27 April 2021.
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Beqa Liluashvili (Male)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
82
Oldest member
Vakhtang Kikabidze (Male)
Total number of MPs, 45 years of age or younger
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
Total per sex
Total of male
Total of female
Total per age interval
18-20
0
31-40
41-45
46-50
22
51-60
61-70
91 and over
0
Number of members, by age
18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
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Totals per age interval | 0 | 4 | 33 | 37 | 22 | 35 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Total <= 45: 74 | Total >= 46: 76 | ||||||||||
Male | 0 | 4 | 23 | 27 | 19 | 31 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 121 |
Female | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
The Organic Law on the Political Union of Citizens provides that a political party which has at least 30% of female members shall receive a 30% bonus over the State Budget finances designated for that party (State Budget pays bonus).
Elections > Election results
Results
Members elected, by sex
Number of men elected
119
Number of women elected
31
Percentage of women elected
The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of women elected in the election and the number of seats at stake at the election.
20.67%
Number of women after election or renewal, by mode of designation
Women Directly Elected
31
New legislature
Total number of men after the election
The total number of male parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
119
Total number of women after the election
The total number of female parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
31
First Speaker of the new legislature
First Speaker of the new legislature
First name of the Speaker of the new legislature following the election or renewal.
Archil
Talakvadze
(Male)
Political party
Georgian Dream
Date of election
11.12.2020
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
Date of independence
For countries that become independent after 1940
1991
Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1918
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Notes
Suffrage: Additional Notes on right of suffrage
Article 1 of the Law of 22 November 1918 regarding legislative elections, granting women the right to vote, was adopted by the National Council and Council of Ministers. The Constitution of 21 February 1921 confirmed this right in Article 46, under Soviet administration and confirmed again at independence, in 1991.
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1921
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Notes
Suffrage: Additional Notes on right of suffrage
Confirmed
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election
Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
1918
National or local
Stand for Election: National or Local
National
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
1990
First woman speaker
Year of first woman speaker
Date at which, for the first time in the country's parliamentary history, a woman became Presiding Officer of Parliament or of one of its Houses.
2001