Bijani House of Representatives election, 2013

The Bijani House of Representatives election of 2013 took place on Sunday, March 3, 2013, to elect the 253 members of the 17th Bijani House of Representatives.

Constituencies
One of the problems of Bijan's proportional system, in which the 23 counties of Bijan double as electoral districts, is that the districts return different numbers of representatives to the House, and thus each district has a separate mathematical threshold to win a seat. For instance, in the 2009 election, Hadar City and County returned 17 representatives, whereas Sunrise County returned only 4. This means that while a candidate needed only approximately 2.9% of the vote to win a seat in Hadar, the same candidate would need about 12.5% of the vote to win a seat in Sunrise County. This makes it significantly more difficult for smaller parties to win representation in the less populous counties.

The initial recalculation of seats for the 2013 and 2017 elections, based on census data, would have given Hadar City and County 19 seats, while the three least populous counties would have only 3 seats each.