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Elections in San Marino gives information on election and election results in San Marino.
San Marino elects on national level a legislature. The Grand and General Council (Consiglio Grande e Generale) has 60 members, elected for a five-year term by semi-proportional representation with national majority bonus (the winning coalition receives at least 35 seats on 60).
San Marino has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Since early 2008, there is an electoral threshold of 3.5%.
Latest elections
A parliamentary election was held in San Marino on 9 November 2008. The election was contested by two major coalitions: Patto per San Marino (centre-right) and Riforme e Libertà (centre-left).