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Legislative constituencies are the territorial framework for the election of each deputy to the National Assembly, elected by direct universal suffrage for a renewable term of five years (unless the legislature is interrupted by dissolution, Article 24 of the Constitution). The legislative constituency is designated by a serial number within each department. The establishment of the deputies’ electoral districts, the method of election of the deputies and the first division into legislative constituencies date from the advent of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Note According to Article 2 of Law No 86-825 of 11 July 1986: “The boundaries of the electoral districts shall be revised, in accordance with demographic trends, after the second general census of the population following the last delimitation.”