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Table I. Structural Profile
Central Europe | The Balkans & Southern Europe | The Baltic States | Other Former Soviet Union
| Region | Chamber | Election | Chamber | Size | |||||
| Country | Structure | Years | Names | ||||||
| Central | |||||||||
|
Unicameral | 1990 & 1992 | Chamber of Deputies | 200 | |||||
| Bicameral | 1996 & 1998 | Chamber of Deputies | 200 | ||||||
| Senate | 81 | ||||||||
| Poland | Bicameral | 1989, 1991, | Sejm | 460 | |||||
| 1993 & 1997 | Senate | 100 | |||||||
| Slovak Republic | Unicameral | 1990, 1992, | National Council | 150 | |||||
| 1994 & 1998 | |||||||||
| Hungary | Unicameral | 1990, 1994 | National Assembly | 386 | |||||
| & 1998 | |||||||||
| Balkans | |||||||||
| Albania | Unicameral | 1991 | People's Assembly | 250 | |||||
| 1992 & 1996 | People's Assembly | 140 | |||||||
| 1997 | People's Assembly | 155 | |||||||
| Croatia | Bicameral | 1992 | House of Representatives | 138 | |||||
| 1993 & 1997 | House of Counties | 68 | |||||||
| 1995 | House of Representatives | 127 | |||||||
| Bulgaria | Unicameral | 1990 | Grand National Assembly | 400 | |||||
| 1991, 1994 | National Assembly | 240 | |||||||
| & 1997 | |||||||||
| Romania | Bicameral | 1990 | Chamber of Deputies | 387 | |||||
| Senate | 119 | ||||||||
| 1992 & 1996 | Chamber of Deputies | 341 | |||||||
| Senate | 143 | ||||||||
| Slovenia | Unicameral | 1996 | National Assembly | 90 | |||||
| Baltic States | |||||||||
| Estonia | Unicameral | 1990 | Supreme Council | 105 | |||||
| 1992, 1995 | State Assembly | 101 | |||||||
| & 1999 | |||||||||
| Latvia | Unicameral | 1990 | Supreme Council | 201 | |||||
| 1993 | Saeima | 100 | |||||||
| 1995 & 1999 | Saeima | 100 | |||||||
| Lithuania | Unicameral | 1990 | Supreme Council | 141 | |||||
| 1992 & 1996 | Seimas | 141 | |||||||
| Other Former Soviet Union | |||||||||
| The Russian Federation | Bicameral | 1995 | State Duma | 450 | |||||
| Ukraine | Unicameral | 1994, 1995 | Verkhovna Rada | 450 | |||||
| & 1998 | |||||||||
| Moldova | Unicameral | 1993 & 1994 | Parlamentul | 104 | |||||
| 1998 | Parliamentul | 101 | |||||||
SourcesInter-Parliamentary Union, "PARLINE Database," at http://www.ipu.org
K. Jasciewicz. 1993. "Elections and Political Change," in White, Batt and Lewis, eds.,
Developments in East European Politics
J. McGregor. 1994. "The Presidency in Central Europe," RFE/RL Research Report 3:2 (January)