ELECTIONS UPDATE Guyana has a 65 seat Parliament . The party that gets the most votes wins the Presidency. However, if the party that wins the Presidency gets 50% or less of the votes they will only get 32 seats in the Parliament. To get 33 seats, a party must get 50.8% of the votes. Based on a recount, the PPP has apparently received that magic number of votes and accordingly will receive 33 seats and thus have a Parliamentary majority of 1 vote. Under the country's constitution, crossing of the floor is not permitted.