Elections in French Guiana

French Guiana elects a legislature on the regional and departmental level. The legislature consists of two councils with diverging powers. The Regional Council (Conseil régional), is one of the four French Overseas Departments along with Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion. The four departments were upgraded from territorial political status in 1946 and they gained the right to regional councils along with all metropolitan France in January 1974. The Regional Council has 31 members, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation. The General Council(Conseil général) has members elected for a six-year term in single-seat constituencies. French Guiana 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.

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