The
2010 parliamentary election in
Venezuela took place on 26 September 2010 to elect the 165 deputies to the
National Assembly. Venezuelan opposition parties, which had boycotted the
previous election thus allowing the governing
Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) to gain a two-thirds super majority, participated in the election through the
Coalition for Democratic Unity (MUD). In 2007 the Fifth Republic Movement dissolved and the
United Socialist Party of Venezuela was formed as the leading government party. Nationally, the popular vote was split equally between PSUV and MUD, but PSUV won a majority of the
first-past-the-post seats and consequently retained a substantial majority in the Assembly, although falling short of both two-thirds and three-fifths super majority marks.