Editing Electoral threshold (section)

==List of electoral thresholds by country==

===Africa===
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| Benin|| 10%<ref>[https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/BEN Benin Country Report 2022, Bertelsmann Stiftung]</ref>||
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| Burundi|| 2%<ref>[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2049_B.htm Electoral system] IPU</ref>||
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| Lesotho|| None, natural threshold ~0.4%||
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| Mozambique|| 5%<ref>[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2223_B.htm Electoral system] IPU</ref>||
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| Namibia|| None, natural threshold ~0.69% || 6 seats appointed by president
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| Rwanda|| 5% ||
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| South Africa|| None, natural threshold ~0.2% ||
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===Asia and Oceania===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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| Australia|| Single-member districts for the [[House of Representatives (Australia)|House of Representatives]]
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| East Timor|| 4%<ref>[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2369_B.htm Electoral system] Inter-Parliamentary Union</ref><ref>[http://www.cne.tl/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/4a-AlteracaoLeiEleitoralParlamento.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619085922/http://www.cne.tl/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/4a-AlteracaoLeiEleitoralParlamento.pdf|date=19 June 2018}} Fourth amendment to the Law on Election of the National Parliament. Article 13.2</ref><ref>Timor Agora: [http://timoragora.blogspot.de/2017/02/pn-aprova-bareira-eleisaun-parlamentar-4.html?spref=fb ''PN APROVA BAREIRA ELEISAUN PARLAMENTAR 4%'', 13 February 2017], retrieved 23 March 2017.</ref>||
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| Fiji|| 5% ||
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| Indonesia|| 4%<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2017/08/04/new-election-bill-new-hope-for-democracy.html |title = New election bill, new hope for democracy}}</ref>||
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| Israel|| 3.25%<ref>{{Cite web |title=Electoral Threshold |url=https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/about/lexicon/pages/electoralthreshold.aspx |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=The Knesset}}</ref>||
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| Kazakhstan|| 5% ||
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| Kyrgyzstan||  5% and 0.5% of the vote in each of the seven regions ||
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| Nepal|| 3% vote each under the [[proportional representation]] category and at least one seat under the [[first-past-the-post voting]]||
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| New Zealand|| 5%<ref>[https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/what-is-new-zealands-system-of-government/what-is-mmp/ Electoral Commission: What is MMP?]</ref>||
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| Palestine|| 2% ||
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| Philippines|| 2% || Other parties can still qualify if the 20% of the seats have not been filled up.
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| South Korea|| 3%<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nec.go.kr/site/eng/03/10301040000002020070601.jsp |title=Election Districts and Representation System {{!}} Elections for Public Office {{!}} Elections {{!}} NATIONAL ELECTION COMMISSION |website=nec.go.kr}}</ref>||
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|10% (local council elections)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nec.go.kr/site/eng/03/10301050000002020070601.jsp |title=Local Council Elections {{!}} Elections for Public Office {{!}} Elections {{!}} NATIONAL ELECTION COMMISSION |website=nec.go.kr}}</ref>
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| Taiwan|| 5%<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://engweb.cec.gov.tw/files/11-1030-4422-1.php |title=Legislative Yuan Elections – Central Election Commission |access-date=20 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409051103/http://engweb.cec.gov.tw/files/11-1030-4422-1.php |archive-date=9 April 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>||
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| Tajikistan|| 5%<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/en/tajikistan-ruling-party-to-win-polls-initial-count-shows/a-52611112 |title=Tajikistan ruling party to win polls, initial count shows |publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]] |access-date=2 March 2020 }}</ref>||
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| Thailand|| None, natural threshold ~0.1%<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thaidatapoints.com/post/thai-election-pending-5 |title=Thailand's New Electoral System |date=21 March 2019 |access-date=4 September 2022 }}</ref>||
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===Europe===
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| Albania|| 3% || 5% for multi-party alliances to each electoral area level<ref>[http://www.cec.org.al/2004/eng/legjislacion/kodizgjedhor/Electoral%20Code.pdf The Electoral Code of the Republic of Albania] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331232742/http://www.cec.org.al/2004/eng/legjislacion/kodizgjedhor/Electoral%20Code.pdf |date=31 March 2010 }}, Artikel 162; vor der Wahl 2009 waren es bei völlig anderem Wahlsystem 2,5% bzw. 4% der gültigen Stimmen auf nationaler Ebene (nur für die Vergabe von Ausgleichssitzen; Direktmandate wurden ohne weitere Bedingungen an den stimmenstärksten Kandidaten zugeteilt)</ref>
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|Andorra
|7.14% ({{frac|1|14}} of votes cast)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/andorra/414116?download=true |title=PRINCIPALITY OF ANDORRA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 7 April 2019 ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission Report |last=OSCE |date=19 February 2020 |access-date=19 February 2020}}</ref>
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|Armenia
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| Austria|| 4% || 0% for ethnic minorities
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| Belgium|| 5% (at constituency level; no national threshold) ||
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina|| 3% (at constituency level; no national threshold) ||
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| Bulgaria|| 4% ||
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| Croatia|| 5% (at constituency level; no national threshold) ||
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| Cyprus|| 3.6% || 
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|1.8% in European Parliament elections
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| Czech Republic|| 5% || 8% for bipartite alliances, 11% for multi-party alliances; does not apply for EU elections
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| Denmark|| 2%<ref>{{cite web|title=Folketingsvalgloven|url=https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=144959|access-date=24 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bille |first1=Lars |last2=Pedersen |first2=Karina |editor1-first=Peter |editor1-last=Mair |editor2-first=Wolfgang C. |editor2-last=Müller |editor3-first=Fritz |editor3-last=Plasser |title=Political parties and electoral change |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalparties00mair|url-access=limited |year=2004 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=0-7619-4719-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/politicalparties00mair/page/n219 207] |chapter=Electoral Fortunes and Responses of the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party in Denmark: Ups and Downs}}</ref>||
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| Estonia|| 5% ||
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| Finland|| None, but high natural threshold due to multiple districts ||
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| France|| Not applicable ||
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|5% in European Parliament elections<ref>{{cite web |date=3 January 2018 |title=Projet de loi relatif à l'élection des représentants au Parlement européen (INTX1733528L) |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichLoiPreparation.do?idDocument=JORFDOLE000036375020&type=general&typeLoi=proj&legislature=15 |access-date=7 January 2018 |publisher=Légifrance}}</ref> and in municipal elections for cities with at least 1000 habitants<ref>{{cite web |date=30 March 2014 | title=Les municipales, une élection pour profs de maths | url=https://www.slate.fr/france/85179/municipales-mathematiques | access-date=21 April 2023 | publisher=Slate FR}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=9 February 2021 | title= Quel est le mode de scrutin pour les élections municipales dans les communes de 1 000 habitants et plus ?  | url=https://www.vie-publique.fr/fiches/20204-municipales-quel-mode-de-scrutin-dans-les-communes-de-1000-hab-et-plus | access-date=21 April 2023 | publisher=Vie Publique}}</ref>
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| Georgia|| 5%<ref name="georgia">{{cite web|title=Election code of Georgia |url=https://matsne.gov.ge/en/document/view/1557168?publication=79 |access-date=2 September 2023 |work=Legislative Herald of Georgia |date=27 December 2021}}</ref>||
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| Germany|| 5%<br />|| 0% for ethnic minorities
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|0% in European Parliament elections
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| Greece|| 3% ||
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| Hungary|| 5% || 10% for bipartite alliances, 15% for multi-party alliances, 0.26% for ethnic minorities (for the first seat only)
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| Ireland|| Natural threshold 8 – 12% because 3 to 5 seats in each constituency ||
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| Iceland|| 5% (only for compensatory seats)<ref>[http://eng.innanrikisraduneyti.is/laws-and-regulations/nr/6713], Election to Altthingi Law, Act no. 24/2000, Article 108</ref>||
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| Italy|| 3% || 10% (party alliances), but a list must reach at least 3%, 1% (parties of party alliances), 20% or two constituencies (ethnic minorities)
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| Kosovo|| 5% ||
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| Latvia|| 5% ||
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| Liechtenstein|| 8% ||
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| Lithuania|| 5% || 7% for party alliances
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| Malta|| natural threshold 12% due to district magnitude of 5 ||
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| Moldova|| 5% || 3% (non-party), 12% (party alliances)
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| Monaco|| 5%<ref name="sys">{{cite web|url=http://www.electionguide.org/election.php?ID=1653 |title=Election Profile |publisher=IFES |access-date=11 February 2013}}</ref>||
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| Montenegro|| 3% ||Special rules apply for candidate lists representing national minority communities.<ref>"These rules apply to lists representing a minority nation or a minority national community with a share of the total population of up to 15 per cent countrywide or 1.5 to 15 per cent within each municipality. If no minority list passes the 3 per cent threshold, but some lists gain 0.7 per cent or more of the valid votes, they are entitled to participate in the distribution of up to 3 mandates as a cumulative list of candidates based on the total number of valid votes. Candidate lists representing the Croatian minority are entitled to 1 seat if they obtain at least 0.35 per cent of the valid votes." Source: OSCE, 2016, [https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/3/d/295511.pdf Montenegro Parliamentary Elections 2016: OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report]</ref>
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| Netherlands|| 0.67% (percent of votes needed for one seat; parties failing to reach this threshold have no right to a possible remainder seat)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2017/01/who-can-vote-and-for-whom-how-the-dutch-electoral-system-works/ |title=Who can vote and for whom? How the Dutch electoral system works |website=DutchNews.nl |date=30 January 2017 |language=en-GB |access-date=18 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Election result |url=https://www.houseofrepresentatives.nl/how-parliament-works/elections/election-result |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=www.houseofrepresentatives.nl |language=nl}}</ref>||
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| 3.23% for European Parliament elections (percent of votes needed for one seat; parties failing to reach this threshold have no right to a possible remainder seat)
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| Northern Cyprus|| 5% ||
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| North Macedonia|| None, but high natural threshold due to multiple districts ||
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| Norway|| 4% (only for compensatory seats) ||
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| Poland|| 5% || 8% (alliances; does not apply for EU elections); 0% (ethnic minorities)
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| Portugal|| None, but high natural threshold due to multiple districts ||
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| Romania|| 5% || 10% (alliances)
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| Russia|| 5% ||
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| San Marino|| 5%<ref name="OSCE_SanMarino">{{Cite web |url=https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/san-marino/441005?download=true |title=OSCE report on 2019 parliamentary elections}}</ref>||
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| Scotland|| 5% ||
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| Spain|| 3% (constituency). Ceuta and Melilla use [[first-past-the-post]] system. ||
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| Sweden|| 4% (national level)<br />12% (constituency) ||
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|Municipalities: 2% or 3%
Regions: 3%
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| Switzerland|| None, but high natural threshold in some electoral districts ||
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| Serbia|| 3%<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.serbianmonitor.com/en/parliament-agrees-to-3-electoral-threshold/|title=Parliament agrees to 3% electoral threshold|date=10 February 2020|website=Serbian Monitor|language=en-US|access-date=5 March 2020}}</ref>|| 0% for ethnic minorities<ref name="OSCE_Serbia">{{Cite web |url=https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/serbia/442735?download=true |title=REPUBLIC OF SERBIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS Spring 2020 ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission Report |last=OSCE}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
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| Slovakia||5% || 7% for bi- and tri-partite alliances, 10% for 4- or more-party alliances<ref>[https://www.zakonypreludi.sk/zz/2014-180 Slovak law number 180/2014 § 66, in Slovak]</ref>
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| Slovenia|| 4% ||
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| Turkey|| 7%<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 March 2022 |title=Turkey lowers national threshold to 7% with new election law |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/elections/turkey-lowers-national-threshold-to-7-with-new-election-law |access-date=31 March 2022 |website=Daily Sabah}}</ref>|| 7% for multi-party alliances. Parties in an alliance not being subject to any nationwide threshold individually. No threshold for independent candidates.
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| Ukraine|| 5%<ref>[https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/633561.html Electoral Code becomes effective in Ukraine]</ref>||
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| Wales || 5% ||
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The electoral threshold for [[Elections to the European Parliament#Voting system|elections to the European Parliament]] varies for each member state, a threshold of up to 5 percent is applied for individual electoral districts, no threshold is applied across the whole legislative body.<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/21/the-european-parliament-electoral-procedures The European Parliament: electoral procedures]</ref>

===North America===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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| Costa Rica|| None, but high natural threshold due to its use of some multiple-member districts with less than 10 seats ||
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| Mexico|| 3% ||
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===South America===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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| Argentina|| 3% of registered voters<ref>[http://infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/15000-19999/19442/texact.htm Código Electoral Nacional], Article 160</ref>||
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| Bolivia|| 3% ||
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| Brazil|| No national electoral threshold, for parties threshold is 80% of the natural threshold in the district; for candidates 20% of the natural threshold in the district.<ref>[https://www.poder360.com.br/opiniao/nova-regra-complica-distribuicao-de-vagas-de-deputados/ New rule complicates distribution of vacancies of Deputies, Jairus Nicholas May 3,2022]</ref><ref>[http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2019-2022/2021/Lei/L14211.htm Brazil Law No. 14,211, of October 1, 2021 ]</ref>|| threshold for financial contributions is 2% at constituency level or 11 deputies in 9 states,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Oliveira |first1=José Carlos |title=Eleições deste ano trazem cláusulas de desempenho para candidatos e partidos |url=https://www.camara.leg.br/noticias/542608-eleicoes-deste-ano-trazem-clausulas-de-desempenho-para-candidatos-e-partidos/ |access-date=10 August 2021 |work=Chamber of Deputies of Brazil |date=30 June 2018 |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sem votação mínima, 14 partidos ficarão sem recursos públicos |url=https://noticias.r7.com/brasil/sem-votacao-minima-14-partidos-ficarao-sem-recursos-publicos-09102018 |access-date=11 August 2021 |work=R7 |date=9 October 2018 |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref name="otempo">{{cite news |title=Com dura cláusula de barreira, metade das siglas corre risco de acabar |url=https://www.otempo.com.br/politica/com-dura-clausula-de-barreira-metade-das-siglas-corre-risco-de-acabar-1.2511424 |access-date=9 November 2021 |work=O Tempo |date=12 July 2021 |language=pt-BR}}</ref> increasing 2026 to 2.5% and 2030 to 3%
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| Chile|| None, but high natural threshold due to its use of multiple-member districts with less than 10 seats ||
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| Colombia|| 3% ||
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| Ecuador|| None, but high natural threshold due to its use of multiple-member districts with less than 10 seats ||
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| Paraguay|| None, but high natural threshold due to its use of multiple-member districts with less than 10 seats ||
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| Peru|| 5%<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://perureports.com/2016/03/31/perus-small-political-parties-scramble-survive/ | title=Peru's small political parties scramble to survive| date=April 2016}}</ref>||
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