Nauru elects on a national level a head of state (the president) and a legislature.
However, there are frequent changes of government in Nauru which occur without an election;[citation needed] most recently, in October 2023, when David Adeang was elected as the new President of Nauru following a no-confidence vote for Russ Kun.
[2] The 19 seat members of the Parliament of Nauru are elected through the Dowdall System, a decimalised modification of a preferential Borda count.
Each legal vote is aggregated in order to determine a decimal score for each candidate.
[7] Before its founding in 2016, elections were administered by the chief secretary, a political appointment by the president.