2026 Vietnamese legislative election

2026 Vietnamese legislative election

←  2021 15 March 2026 2031 →
All 500 seats in the National Assembly 251 seats needed for a majority
Leader TBD – Party Communist Party Non-party members Alliance Fatherland Fr. Fatherland Fr. Leader since – – Last election 485 seats 14 seats
Incumbent Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính Communist Party

Legislative elections are scheduled to be held in Vietnam on 15 March 2026. ^{[1] [2]}

Electoral system

The members of the National Assembly are elected from 184 multi-member constituencies using the two-round system, with a maximum number of 500 candidates to be elected. Block voting is used, with each district having two or three seats. ^[3] Candidates has to receive at least 50% of the vote in the first round to be elected, with a second round hold on a plurality basis. ^[4]

All participating candidates and elected members are expected to be nominal members of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

References

1. "NA approves shortened term, sets 2026 election date". Viet Nam News. 21 May 2025.
2. "Vietnamese National Assembly sets election date for new term". english.news.cn. 2025-05-21. Retrieved 2025-11-08.
3. "Two How Elections Work in Vietnam". United Front. 2021. pp. 49–66. doi:10.1515/9781503614758-005. ISBN   9781503614758. S2CID   240967678.
4. "Viet Nam (Quoc-Hoi), Electoral system". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 2021-05-18.