Since 1967, Mauritius has experienced 12 free and fair democratic general elections to choose a government. The National Assembly has 70 members elected for a five-year term, 62 by plurality in 21 multi-member constituencies and 8 additional "best loser" members. The government is formed by the party or group which controls a majority on the unicameral legislature. The president and vice-president are then elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term by the parliament. On a regional level, the country has village & district councils, and municipal elections every 6 years. Mauritius has a multi-party system which is mainly dominated by three parties namely Militant Socialist Movement (MSM), the Labour Party and Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM). Out of the 12 national elections, the MSM has won 6 (1983, 1987, 1991, 2000, 2014 and 2019), the Labour Party won 4 (1967, 1995, 2005 and 2010) and the MMM won 2 (1976 and 1982). The premiership of the country has alternated between two dynasties, namely Ramgoolam and Jugnauth, except for a short period of 2003-2005 where Paul Berenger was prime minister under an alliance with the Jugnauths. Electoral system Of the 70 MPs, 62 are elected by plurality in 21 multi-member electoral districts: 20 districts with 3 members each and one district (Rodrigues) with 2 members. Voters can vote for up to 3 (or 2) candidates in their district. (There is malapportionment: the number of voters per district varies widely.) An additional 8 "best losers" are elected so as to balance the ethnic breakdown of the 62 already elected MPs. Every "best loser" seat is awarded to the community which is the most underrepresented community at that stage of the process. The D'Hondt method is applied. The basic figures used to apportion the best losers come from the 1972 census (since then, the census doesn't ask for ethnicity): 428348 Hindu, 261439 Muslim, 24374 Sino-Mauritian and 137173 'general population'. The first four seats are apportioned to the best losers of the relevant community, irrespective of party. The next four best losers also compensate on the party-level: after the first four best loser seats, the next seat must go to the majority party until is has four, the remaining seats go to parties who did net yet receive seats. This makes it sometimes impossible to fill a vacancy, because there is no candidate available who is from ethnic group A *and* from party