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China Elections and National Selection System

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🇨🇳 How national authority is selected

China's national legislature is indirectly elected.

The National People's Congress is composed of deputies elected from 35 electoral units. Deputies at county, city-not-divided-into-districts, municipal-district, township, ethnic-township, and town levels are directly elected by constituencies; higher-level people's-congress deputies are elected by the congress at the next level down.

35NPC electoral unitsOrganization of the National People's Congress ↗2,97714th NPC deputy qualifications confirmed at formationReport on deputy qualifications for the 14th National People's Congress ↗5 yearsconstitutional NPC termConstitution of the People's Republic of China ↗
Selection path

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Each step is typed separately so direct election, indirect election, legislative selection, and appointment never collapse into one misleading result.

  1. 01
    Direct local level · direct election

    Voters directly elect specified lower-level people's congresses.

    The Constitution identifies counties, cities not divided into districts, municipal districts, townships, ethnic townships, and towns as directly elected constituency levels.

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  2. 02
    Indirect higher levels · indirect election

    People's congresses elect deputies to the next level up.

    Deputies to the NPC and to provincial and other specified higher-level congresses are elected by the people's congress at the next lower level.

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  3. 03
    National legislature · electoral unit election

    Thirty-five electoral units elect NPC deputies.

    The official NPC organization record lists provincial-level congresses, the armed-forces congress, Hong Kong and Macao election councils, and the Taiwan compatriots' consultation election council among the 35 units.

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  4. 04
    State leadership · legislative selection

    The NPC elects or decides on specified national offices.

    Article 62 assigns the NPC the election of the president, vice president, Central Military Commission chair, and specified judicial and supervisory leaders, and decisions on other nominated executive roles.

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Permanent institution record

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indirect election from 35 electoral units

National People's Congress

national legislature and highest state organ of power

Source-bounded count
2,977
Term
five years
Cycle label
14th National People's Congress

Exercises national legislative power and elects or decides on specified state leadership roles under Article 62 of the Constitution.

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