Burkina Faso

Transitional Legislative Assembly

Political system: Transitional system
Structure of parliament: Unicameral
IPU membership: Yes

Historical data on women

Data on women’s right to vote and to stand for election, the date at which the first woman entered parliament, and female Heads of State or Government

Women's suffrage

Date of independence: 1960
Year of first woman in parliament: 1978
Year of first woman speaker: Not applicable

Notes: No woman has occupied the function of Speaker in the country.

Women’s right to vote

Women’s right to vote: 1958
National or local: National
Restricted or universal suffrage: Universal

Notes: Prior to independence, under French administration, women were granted the right to vote on 23 June 1956 , by a framework law (Loi-cadre Deferre). This right was confirmed at independence, in the 1958 constitution.

Women’s right to stand for election

Women's right to stand for election: No information available
Restricted or universal: No information available

Updated at	Political system
2022-03	Transitional system
2005-01	Presidential-Parliamentary