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China's national legislature is indirectly elected. Explore the official selection path, institution size and term, exact sources, explicit gaps, and the reason no nationwide popular-vote result is published.

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10published layers
5visible gaps
CNcountry code
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permanent country IDPublished now
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electoral-management sourcePublished now
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parliamentary institution namePublished now
04
official indirect-election system mapPublished now
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all 35 National People's Congress electoral units represented at the national-system levelPublished now
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2,977 confirmed 14th NPC deputy qualifications at formationPublished now
07
constitutional five-year NPC termPublished now
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direct and indirect election levelsPublished now
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national leadership selection powersPublished now
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civic-system APIPublished now
A new universal civic primitive

Who selects whom—and who can stop whom?

Dots are sourced institutions. Choose one formal power at a time— election, appointment, confidence, removal, veto, oversight, or constitutional review. Missing evidence produces a visible gap, never a guessed line.

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Source-backed systemIndirect national people's-congress selection system
4 institutions · 3 verified connections
Explore the whole systemHow voters choose power
Elections2 paths
Formal national relationships verified 2026-08-27. Every institution stays visible; choose a lens, path, or institution to trace how power moves.
Coverage contract

The national civic-system adapter is live.

Election.org publishes only the fields supported by the attached sources. A country page is not evidence that every election or candidate record has been collected.

Available now

  • permanent country ID
  • electoral-management source
  • parliamentary institution name
  • official indirect-election system map
  • all 35 National People's Congress electoral units represented at the national-system level
  • 2,977 confirmed 14th NPC deputy qualifications at formation
  • constitutional five-year NPC term
  • direct and indirect election levels
  • national leadership selection powers
  • civic-system API

Still missing

  • live current NPC membership and tenure roster
  • local candidate, constituency, and vote records
  • political finance
  • local government adapters
  • Chinese-language interface
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National civic system live
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How national authority is selected

The National People's Congress is composed of deputies elected from 35 electoral units. Deputies at county, city-not-divided-into-districts, municipal-district, township, ethnic-township, and town levels are directly elected by constituencies; higher-level people's-congress deputies are elected by the congress at the next level down.

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10 published layers

See every result, geography, person, institution, and source layer Election.org currently publishes for China.

See the complete inventory Government power · mapped

Who selects whom?

Trace 3 sourced formal relationships among 4 national institutions.

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China API record

Read the stable country ID, coverage state, attached sources, and explicit gaps in a human-friendly record view.

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Sources and methodology

Audit the election authority, electoral-management record, parliament sources, and Election.org coverage limits for China.

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Evidence beneath the product

Official institutions and source trail.

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Election administration

No national elections

International IDEA's published electoral-management model for China, source year 2022. This is a reproduced source label, not an Election.org rating.

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National authority

No authority asserted.

No national election-management authority is asserted in this foundation record. International IDEA labels the national electoral-management model separately below.

Unknown stays null
Permanent institution

National People's Congress

National People's Congress

Institution names are mapped to the IPU Parline country/chamber layer; current membership counts are not copied into this release.

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Transparent country boundary

1,408,975,000

World Bank Population, total for 2024. This value defines the reproducible major-country cohort; it is not an Election.org rank or judgment of importance.

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