Additional information about gender quotas

Malawi does not regulate any gender quotas for the Lower Camera or the Sub-National Level. Nonetheless, different political parties have developed voluntary quotas as United Democratic Front (which aims to have a 25 per cent of its parliamentary seats held by women or the Malawi Congress Party, which allocates 33 per cent of the seats to women at all the levels of the party structure.

The percentage of women is calculated from the current number of seats occupied in the parliament. The National Assembly has 193 statutory seats.