by popular vote to serve six-year terms)

elections: General Council - last held NA March 2000 (next to be
held NA 2006); Regional Council - last held 15 March 1998 (next to
be held NA 2004)

election results: General Council - percent of vote by party - NA%;
seats by party - NA; Regional Council - percent of vote by party -
PS 28.28%, various left parties 22.56%, RPR 15.91%, independents
8.6%, Walwari Committee 6%; seats by party - PS 11, various left
parties 9, RPR 6, independents 3, Walwari Committee 2

note: one seat was elected to the French Senate on 27 September
1998 (next to be held NA September 2007); results - percent of vote
by party - NA; seats by party - NA; 2 seats were elected to the
French National Assembly on 25 May - 1 June 1997 (next to be held NA
2002); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - RPR
1, PSG 1

French Polynesia:
unicameral Territorial Assembly or Assemblee
Territoriale (41 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve
five-year terms)

elections: last held 12 May 1996 (next to be held NA 2001)

election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party -
People's Rally for the Republic (Gaullist) 22, Independent Front for
the Liberation of Polynesia 10, New Fatherland Party 5, other 4

note: one seat was elected to the French Senate on 24 September
1989 (next to be held NA September 1998); results - percent of vote
by party - NA; seats by party - UC 1; two seats were elected to the
French National Assembly on 25 May - 1 June 1997 (next to be held NA
2002); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party -
People's Rally for the Republic (Gaullist) 2

Gabon:
bicameral legislature consists of the Senate (91 seats) and
the National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (120 seats); members
are elected by direct popular vote to serve five-year terms

elections: National Assembly - last held 15 and 29 December 1996
(next to be held NA December 2001); Senate - last held 26 January
and 9 February 1997 (next to be held in January 2002)

election results: National Assembly - percent of vote by party -
NA%; seats by party - PDG 89, PGP 9, RNB 6, CLR 3, UPG 2, USG 2,
independents 4, others 5; Senate - percent of vote by party - NA%;
seats by party - PDG 53, RNB 20, PGP 4, ADERE 3, RDP 1, CLR 1,
independents 9

Gambia, The:
unicameral National Assembly (49 seats; 45 el