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Upcoming elections

  • Presidential election

    2028 Syrian presidential election

    President of the Syrian Arab Republic

    Date expected

    sana.sy Official source

    On Jan. 29, 2025, when the Conference for the Declaration of the Victory of the Revolution announced Ahmad al-Sharaa as the country’s president for the transitional period.

    Recorded 8 Oct 2026

    sana.sy Official source

    The transitional period is set at five years

    Recorded 8 Oct 2026

  • Parliamentary election

    2029 Syrian parliamentary election

    People's Assembly of Syria

    Indirect election: chosen by provincial electoral bodies, not by a public vote.

    Date expectedIndirect

    sana.sy Official source

    following President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s appointment of 70 members as part of the “completing third,” who join the 137 members previously elected by provincial electoral bodies.

    Recorded 8 Oct 2026

    sana.sy Official source

    The President appoints one-third of the 210 members of parliament from outside the electoral body.

    Recorded 8 Oct 2026

  • Regional election

    2026 Syrian parliamentary election

    Date to be announcedPeople's Assembly seats in Sweida and parts of Hasakah and Aleppo

    Indirect election: chosen by electoral colleges in the affected districts, not by a public vote.

    PostponedIndirect

How Syria is governed

System of government
Presidential republic

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Head of state
President of the Republic

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Head of government
Prime Minister

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Voting age
18

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Compulsory voting
No

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Electoral authority
Supreme Committee for People's Assembly Elections

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Legislature

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

  • People's Assembly 210 seats · 4-year term · direct vote for two-thirds of seats; the remaining third is appointed by the president under the current transitional arrangement

The president is directly elected by the people and may face a second round if no candidate wins an absolute majority. The People's Assembly is the national legislature; under the current transitional rules, two-thirds are elected through electoral colleges and one-third is appointed by the president.

wipolex-res.wipo.int News report

يُنتخب رئيس الجمهورية من الشعب مباشرة.

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Elected offices

  • President of the Republic head of state · 1 seats · 7-year term · direct popular election; absolute majority, with runoff if needed

Past elections

Newest first. Results are as the sources published them.

Results

The latest elections with a result table. Provisional figures can change until the count is certified.

2024 Syrian parliamentary election

Under reviewTurnout 38%

These figures are under review: they do not add up, so they are shown as published but not as final.

Seats won: all 2 lines, as in the table
Results of 2024 Syrian parliamentary election
Party or candidateSeatsSource
National Unity coalition Elected185

data.ipu.org News report

According to the Higher Judicial Committee for elections, turnout was 38% of 19.2 million voters

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

Independent candidates Elected65

data.ipu.org News report

According to the Higher Judicial Committee for elections, turnout was 38% of 19.2 million voters

Recorded 8 Oct 2026

2021 Syrian presidential election · 26 May 2021

Final resultsTurnout 78.6%

Results of 2021 Syrian presidential election
Party or candidateVotesShareSource
Bashar al-Assad (Ba'ath Party) Elected13,540,86095.2%

en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia

Registered voters/turnout | 18,107,109 | 78.64

Recorded 8 Oct 2026 · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Mahmoud Ahmad Marei (Democratic Arab Socialist Union)470,2763.3%

en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia

Registered voters/turnout | 18,107,109 | 78.64

Recorded 8 Oct 2026 · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Abdullah Sallum Abdullah (Socialist Unionist Party)213,9681.5%

en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia

Registered voters/turnout | 18,107,109 | 78.64

Recorded 8 Oct 2026 · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Syria in numbers

From the World Bank, each with the year it is from.

Sources

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