Election System
All Liechtenstein citizens are eligible to vote who have reached the age of 18 and live in the country. The right of women to vote was introduced in 1984, on the third attempt. A constitutional amendment adopted by the Parliament in 1976 allowed municipalities to introduce the right of women to vote at the municipal level at an earlier stage.
Voter turnout in Liechtenstein is traditionally very high. It was 86,5% in the parliamentary elections of 2005 and in the year 2009 84,6 %.

Proportional Representation
The 25 Members of Parliament are elected by the people in general, equal, secret, and direct elections according to proportional representation.
Seats are allocated to the electoral groups in proportion to the votes they attain.
The Constitution requires a minimum threshold of 8% of the valid votes cast in the entire country in order to obtain seats. This rule is intended to prevent a fragmentation of electoral groups and therefore to ensure significant representation of electoral groups in Parliament.

Election Districts
Of the 25 Members of Parliament, 15 are elected from the Upper Country and 10 from the Lower Country. Alternate Members of Parliament are elected with them. For every three seats a political party obtains in an election district, the party is entitled to one Alternate Member. Each party represented in Parliament is entitled to at least one Alternate Member, however, so that small parties are not excluded from the rule pertaining to Alternates.
The function of the Alternate Members is primarily to ensure the majority balance in Parliament if a Member is unable to attend a meeting of Parliament. They may not be elected to the parliamentary committees, but they may be elected to parliamentary delegations.

Term of Office
The term of office is four years, whereby regular parliamentary elections are held in February or March of the calendar year in which the fourth year ends. Reelection is permissible.