Women's Suffrage and rights in the constitutions of the world​

MADAGASCAR 1959
Right to vote and to stand for election: April 29, 1959
First woman in parliament: 1965
Independence: 1960
Population: 27,326,584
Parliament name: Parliament of Madagascar
Chamber name: Antenimierampirenena (National
Assembly)
Structure & Status of parliament: Lower Chamber
Statutory number of members: 151
Directly elected
Electoral quota for women: No.
DATE WOMEN %
2019-07
2019-05
2016-12
2014-09
2013-01
2011-01
2010-10
2007-09
2007-01
2002-01
1998-05
1993-06
1989-05
1983-08
1977-06
1970-05
1965-08
1960-06
24
27
29
31
34
64
32
12
10
6
12
5
9
2
4
6
1
0
15.89%
17.88%
19.21%
20.53%
23.13%
17.53%
12.5%
9.45%
8%
3.75%
8%
3.62%
6.52%
1.46%
2.92%
5.77%
0.93%
0%
Chamber name: Antenimierandoholona (Senate)
Structure & Status of parliament: Upper Chamber
Statutory number of members: 63
Indirectly elected members (42): 7 senators per province,
elected by an electoral college.
Appointed members (21): appointed by the Head of State.
In accordance with presidential decree no. 2019-006, the
statutory number of Senate members will decrease from the
current 63 to 18 after the end of the current term in 2021. The
new Senate will comprise 12 indirectly elected senators (2
per province, down from 6) and 6 presidential appointees
(down from 21; 3 put forward by the most representative
social and economic groupings and 3 appointed for their
particular expertise).
Electoral quota for women: No.
DATE WOMEN %
2019-07
2016-12
2016-01
2012-01
2010-10
2008-04
2003-01
2002-01
2001-03
1970-09
1965-08
1960-06
12
13
12
20
10
5
10
4
10
4
1
0
19.35%
20.63%
19.05%
12.2%
11.11%
15.15%
11.11%
7.84%
11.11%
7.84%
1.96%
0%
Women first exercised their right to vote and to stand for election in 1960.
CONSTITUTION OF 2010
206
Preamble
The sovereign Malagasy People,
…
Convinced of the necessity of the Malagasy society to recover its originality, its authenticity and its Malagasy character, and
to inscribe itself in the modernity of the millennium while conserving its traditional fundamental principles and values based
on the Malagasy fanahy that includes « ny fitiavana, ny fihavanana, ny fifanajàna, ny fitandroana ny aina », and privileging a
framework of life allowing a « living together » without distinction of region, of origin, of ethnicity, of religion, of political
opinion, or of gender, DISCRIMINATION BANNED