Syria
Members of Syria's Higher Committee for the People’s Assembly Elections pictured on July 14, 2025. Photo: SANA
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria will hold its upcoming legislative elections on October 5, the country’s official electoral body announced on Sunday.
In a statement shared on its official Telegram channel, Syria’s Higher Committee for the People’s Assembly Elections confirmed the election date, stating that the vote to elect lawmakers in Syrian provinces will take place on Sunday, October 5.
The Committee had a day prior extended the deadline for appeals regarding the electoral body’s members to Sunday.
The announcement comes after the electoral agency in late August released the seat distribution, outlining the allocation of 210 parliamentary seats across Syria’s provinces.
According to the breakdown, the province of Aleppo received the highest number of seats with 32, followed by Rif Dimashq, Homs, Hama, and Idlib with 12 seats each.
Damascus and Deir ez-Zor were each allocated ten seats, while the Alawite-majority provinces of Latakia and Tartus received seven and five seats, respectively.
In northeast Syria (Rojava), Hasaka and Raqqa were allocated ten and six seats, while the southern Druze-majority Suwayda province received three seats.
However, despite the allocation, the Committee previously announced that elections in Hasaka, Raqqa, and Suwayda will be postponed due to what it described as a “lack of a secure and stable environment.”
In a late August interview with Rudaw, the Committee’s spokesperson Nawar Najmeh said that voting in these provinces will be held once “appropriate security and political conditions” are restored.
Najmeh also noted that while elections are postponed in these areas, one-third of the 210-member People’s Assembly will be appointed by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in line with the interim constitutional declaration approved in March. It is “possible for the appointed members to come from these provinces,” Najmeh said.
In response, the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) rejected the committee’s reasoning for excluding their areas from the upcoming elections, stressing that “the areas of North and East Syria are the most secure” in comparison to other parts of the country.
The Kurdish-led administration further slammed the elections process as “exclusionary and undemocratic,” adding that it "does not reflect the will of the Syrian people,” but is rather “a continuation of the policy of marginalization and exclusion.”
In a statement shared on its official Telegram channel, Syria’s Higher Committee for the People’s Assembly Elections confirmed the election date, stating that the vote to elect lawmakers in Syrian provinces will take place on Sunday, October 5.
The Committee had a day prior extended the deadline for appeals regarding the electoral body’s members to Sunday.
The announcement comes after the electoral agency in late August released the seat distribution, outlining the allocation of 210 parliamentary seats across Syria’s provinces.
According to the breakdown, the province of Aleppo received the highest number of seats with 32, followed by Rif Dimashq, Homs, Hama, and Idlib with 12 seats each.
Damascus and Deir ez-Zor were each allocated ten seats, while the Alawite-majority provinces of Latakia and Tartus received seven and five seats, respectively.
In northeast Syria (Rojava), Hasaka and Raqqa were allocated ten and six seats, while the southern Druze-majority Suwayda province received three seats.
However, despite the allocation, the Committee previously announced that elections in Hasaka, Raqqa, and Suwayda will be postponed due to what it described as a “lack of a secure and stable environment.”
In a late August interview with Rudaw, the Committee’s spokesperson Nawar Najmeh said that voting in these provinces will be held once “appropriate security and political conditions” are restored.
Najmeh also noted that while elections are postponed in these areas, one-third of the 210-member People’s Assembly will be appointed by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in line with the interim constitutional declaration approved in March. It is “possible for the appointed members to come from these provinces,” Najmeh said.
In response, the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) rejected the committee’s reasoning for excluding their areas from the upcoming elections, stressing that “the areas of North and East Syria are the most secure” in comparison to other parts of the country.
The Kurdish-led administration further slammed the elections process as “exclusionary and undemocratic,” adding that it "does not reflect the will of the Syrian people,” but is rather “a continuation of the policy of marginalization and exclusion.”
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