2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election
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Elections happened in Mauritania on 13 May 2023 and 27 May 2023. These elections happened to pick who was in the parliament. Elections for the leaders of municipalities and provinces happened too.
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All 176 seats in the National Assembly 89 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 71.59% (![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Winner by wilaya (national list) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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These were the first parliamentary elections after the 2019 presidential election. That election was the first time the president of Mauritania changed without a coup happening.
Behavior
[change | change source]CENI said while looking at the votes that it saw that someone messed with them in the El Mina department of Nouakchott. Some votes were moved from the null and neutral cards to one of the candidates. They said that they fixed it. Judicial procedures had happened after a candidate said that they did not like the results.[1]
Results
[change | change source]Overall
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Party | National PR list | Total | ||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | ± | Seats | ± | |||
El Insaf | 342,153 | 35.26% | 7 | +3 | 107 | +14 | ||
National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) | 99,475 | 10.25% | 2 | -1 | 11 | -3 | ||
Union for Democracy and Progress (UDP) | 58,823 | 6.06% | 1 | = | 10 | +4 | ||
Sawab and allies (Sawab+) | 39,807 | 4.10% | 1 | = | 5 | +2 | ||
Republican Front for Unity and Democracy and allies (Hope Mauritania) | 32,315 | 3.33% | 1 | New | 7 | New | ||
National Democratic Alliance (AND) | 31,987 | 3.30% | 1 | = | 6 | +2 | ||
El Islah | 31,854 | 3.28% | 1 | +1 | 6 | +5 | ||
Mauritanian Party of Union and Change (HATEM) | 28,124 | 2.90% | 1 | +1 | 3 | +2 | ||
El Karama | 25,437 | 2.62% | 1 | = | 5 | -1 | ||
Nida El Watan | 24,268 | 2.50% | 1 | +1 | 5 | +5 | ||
Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal and allies (AJD/MR+) | 21,163 | 2.18% | 1 | +1 | 4 | +3 | ||
Party of Conciliation and Prosperity (HIWAR) | 20,206 | 2.08% | 1 | = | 3 | +2 | ||
Party of the Mauritanian Masses (PMM) | 20,187 | 2.08% | 1 | +1 | 1 | +1 | ||
Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal (PRDR) | 19,110 | 1.97% | 0 | = | 0 | = | ||
Union of the Forces of Progress (UFP) | 17,387 | 1.79% | 0 | -1 | 0 | -3 | ||
El Vadila | 17,301 | 1.78% | 0 | = | 2 | +2 | ||
Party of Unity and Development (PUD) | 16,129 | 1.66% | 0 | = | 0 | = | ||
Union for Planning and Building and allies (State of Justice) | 15,028 | 1.55% | 0 | = | 1 | +1 | ||
Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD) | 14,652 | 1.51% | 0 | -1 | 0 | -3 | ||
Burst of Youth for the Nation (PSJN) | 14,345 | 1.48% | 0 | -1 | 0 | -3 | ||
El Ravah | 13,858 | 1.43% | 0 | = | 0 | = | ||
People's Progressive Alliance (APP) | 12,115 | 1.25% | 0 | -1 | 0 | -3 | ||
National Cohesion for Rights and the Construction of Generations (Ribat) | 10,418 | 1.07% | 0 | = | 0 | = | ||
Party of Construction and Progress (PCP) | 9,293 | 0.96% | 0 | = | 0 | = | ||
Centre through Action for Progress (CAP) | 8,813 | 0.91% | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||
Blank votes | 26,250 | 2.70% | ||||||
Valid votes | 970,498 | 75.88% | ||||||
Null votes | 308,490 | 24.12% | ||||||
Seats | 20 | = | 176 | +19 | ||||
Turnout | 1,278,988 | 71.59% | ||||||
Abstentions | 507,460 | 28.41% | ||||||
Registered voters | 1,786,448 | |||||||
Source: National Independent Election Commission (CENI)[2] |
National list results' per wilaya
[change | change source]Party | AD | AS | BR | DN | GO | GU | HC | HG | IN | NN | NO | NS | TA | TZ | TR | XM | MRT | ||||||||||||
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El Insaf | 37.42% | 33.59% | 37.54% | 23.41% | 28.49% | 29.25% | 40.13% | 30.02% | 46.30% | 28.41% | 26.00% | 37.87% | 49.67% | 30.17% | 48.70% | 20.04% | 35.26% | ||||||||||||
Tewassoul | 7.61% | 17.13% | 6.34% | 7.93% | 4.02% | 6.18% | 9.16% | 13.33% | 6.30% | 16.32% | 10.90% | 14.26% | 6.42% | 10.71% | 10.07% | 20.25% | 10.25% | ||||||||||||
UDP | 2.32% | 2.19% | 4.08% | 4.07% | 15.54% | 25.50% | 10.35% | 6.60% | 8.02% | 2.71% | 2.74% | 1.82% | 3.60% | 4.87% | 0.90% | 4.03% | 6.06% | ||||||||||||
Sawab+ | 1.96% | 2.86% | 1.88% | 5.59% | 3.75% | 13.39% | 1.55% | 1.15% | 2.72% | 5.28% | 3.98% | 5.65% | 0.88% | 3.30% | 4.86% | 13.83% | 4.10% | ||||||||||||
Hope Mauritania | 1.03% | 0.79% | 4.93% | 4.77% | 3.04% | 1.55% | 0.47% | 0.77% | 1.20% | 3.84% | 6.67% | 8.02% | 0.59% | 8.73% | 3.14% | 5.50% | 3.33% | ||||||||||||
AND | 2.22% | 2.79% | 1.01% | 2.91% | 6.26% | 6.51% | 2.59% | 0.87% | 2.76% | 7.08% | 4.50% | 1.78% | 1.99% | 1.63% | 3.55% | 1.58% | 3.30% | ||||||||||||
El Islah | 13.26% | 3.34% | 1.71% | 2.17% | 1.54% | 0.48% | 4.70% | 5.34% | 2.08% | 2.80% | 4.24% | 2.15% | 3.11% | 10.71% | 2.35% | 2.65% | 3.28% | ||||||||||||
HATEM | 1.76% | 3.37% | 0.98% | 3.03% | 0.38% | 0.35% | 5.74% | 11.79% | 1.54% | 2.18% | 2.07% | 3.41% | 1.43% | 3.01% | 1.32% | 1.49% | 2.90% | ||||||||||||
El Karama | 0.62% | 0.46% | 5.55% | 13.07% | 8.99% | 0.96% | 1.22% | 1.35% | 0.51% | 0.94% | 1.14% | 1.67% | 0.45% | 0.37% | 0.56% | 1.05% | 2.62% | ||||||||||||
Nida El Watan | 0.69% | 8.03% | 0.59% | 0.73% | 0.75% | 0.24% | 2.64% | 7.00% | 1.29% | 1.32% | 3.01% | 1.31% | 0.63% | 1.12% | 2.79% | 1.35% | 2.50% | ||||||||||||
AJD/MR+ | 0.37% | 0.23% | 6.50% | 5.71% | 4.42% | 0.61% | 0.15% | 0.15% | 1.46% | 0.89% | 3.08% | 3.26% | 0.09% | 2.00% | 0.35% | 9.88% | 2.18% | ||||||||||||
HIWAR | 6.48% | 3.87% | 3.44% | 2.20% | 1.76% | 1.62% | 3.10% | 1.71% | 1.85% | 0.88% | 0.60% | 0.77% | 0.88% | 2.08% | 1.41% | 0.67% | 2.08% | ||||||||||||
PMM | 3.87% | 1.54% | 0.66% | 1.29% | 0.46% | 0.56% | 1.97% | 3.65% | 1.26% | 2.41% | 4.07% | 1.39% | 1.43% | 3.43% | 3.35% | 1.23% | 2.08% | ||||||||||||
PRDR | 1.06% | 5.70% | 1.38% | 2.38% | 4.74% | 0.18% | 0.63% | 1.93% | 1.12% | 1.97% | 1.39% | 0.94% | 1.51% | 0.94% | 1.53% | 1.10% | 1.97% | ||||||||||||
UFP | 1.79% | 2.97% | 1.76% | 1.69% | 3.18% | 1.41% | 0.93% | 1.04% | 1.38% | 2.02% | 2.31% | 1.91% | 2.90% | 1.58% | 0.86% | 1.16% | 1.79% | ||||||||||||
El Vadila | 1.08% | 2.13% | 4.44% | 0.81% | 1.29% | 2.37% | 1.08% | 2.27% | 0.60% | 1.82% | 1.05% | 0.99% | 2.13% | 1.53% | 0.87% | 1.81% | 1.78% | ||||||||||||
PUD | 1.32% | 0.65% | 4.26% | 0.99% | 1.15% | 0.42% | 0.79% | 3.40% | 0.62% | 1.93% | 2.73% | 0.83% | 2.37% | 0.70% | 0.51% | 1.63% | 1.66% | ||||||||||||
State of Justice | 2.47% | 0.73% | 0.54% | 1.95% | 0.30% | 0.27% | 0.96% | 0.81% | 1.55% | 2.38% | 5.36% | 1.75% | 2.05% | 2.24% | 1.71% | 2.35% | 1.55% | ||||||||||||
RFD | 0.83% | 0.61% | 1.23% | 3.68% | 0.67% | 0.14% | 1.48% | 0.90% | 1.47% | 2.89% | 2.51% | 1.09% | 2.76% | 1.09% | 1.86% | 3.23% | 1.51% | ||||||||||||
PSJN | 1.89% | 1.39% | 3.64% | 1.31% | 4.61% | 0.43% | 0.94% | 0.46% | 0.46% | 1.33% | 0.89% | 0.62% | 1.55% | 0.82% | 0.32% | 0.38% | 1.48% | ||||||||||||
El Ravah | 2.94% | 0.66% | 0.98% | 1.25% | 0.36% | 1.14% | 1.28% | 0.75% | 1.00% | 1.37% | 1.51% | 0.96% | 10.04% | 0.53% | 1.54% | 0.92% | 1.43% | ||||||||||||
APP | 1.27% | 0.56% | 1.95% | 1.47% | 0.85% | 1.77% | 1.01% | 0.55% | 0.46% | 1.91% | 0.98% | 2.58% | 1.07% | 2.52% | 0.72% | 0.67% | 1.25% | ||||||||||||
Ribat | 1.45% | 0.25% | 0.41% | 3.39% | 0.31% | 0.52% | 0.91% | 0.30% | 10.62% | 2.59% | 2.39% | 0.95% | 0.57% | 2.30% | 0.45% | 0.85% | 1.07% | ||||||||||||
PCP | 0.72% | 1.38% | 1.13% | 0.88% | 0.60% | 0.23% | 1.19% | 1.37% | 0.57% | 1.64% | 1.33% | 0.86% | 0.42% | 0.50% | 0.61% | 0.52% | 0.96% | ||||||||||||
CAP | 0.33% | 0.25% | 0.23% | 0.56% | 0.45% | 0.31% | 0.25% | 0.24% | 0.30% | 0.65% | 1.18% | 0.71% | 0.19% | 0.38% | 3.75% | 0.14% | 0.91% | ||||||||||||
Blank votes | 3.24% | 2.53% | 2.84% | 2.76% | 2.09% | 3.61% | 4.78% | 2.25% | 2.56% | 2.44% | 3.37% | 2.45% | 1.27% | 2.74% | 1.92% | 1.69% | 2.70% | ||||||||||||
Valid votes | 81.73% | 64.79% | 79.47% | 86.82% | 76.72% | 78.37% | 51.47% | 67.24% | 85.86% | 85.33% | 85.43% | 85.76% | 77.95% | 86.63% | 86.10% | 86.30% | 75.88% | ||||||||||||
Null votes | 18.27% | 35.21% | 20.53% | 13.18% | 23.28% | 21.63% | 48.53% | 32.76% | 14.14% | 14.67% | 14.57% | 14.24% | 22.05% | 13.37% | 13.90% | 13.70% | 24.12% | ||||||||||||
Turnout | 71.27% | 73.41% | 76.82% | 69.64% | 77.37% | 81.74% | 75.69% | 77.23% | 61.24% | 61.22% | 61.46% | 66.83% | 74.15% | 71.33% | 67.58% | 62.49% | 71.59% | ||||||||||||
Abstentions | 28.73% | 26.59% | 23.18% | 30.36% | 22.63% | 18.26% | 24.31% | 22.77% | 38.76% | 38.78% | 38.54% | 33.17% | 25.85% | 28.67% | 32.42% | 37.51% | 28.41% | ||||||||||||
Registered voters | 53,331 | 164,442 | 180,078 | 66,423 | 135,491 | 91,826 | 198,099 | 152,255 | 19,789 | 120,387 | 141,914 | 119,367 | 55,836 | 28,182 | 236,739 | 22,289 | 1,786,448 | ||||||||||||
Source: National Independent Election Commission (CENI)[2] |
Aftermath
[change | change source]Election of the President of the National Assembly
[change | change source]The election of the President of the National Assembly happened on 19 June 2023. Mohamed Bemba Meguett was picked in the first round.[3]
Candidate | Party | Votes obtained | |
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Required majority → | 89 out of 176 | ||
Mohamed Bemba Meguett | El Insaf | 137 ![]() | |
Ahmedou Mohamed Mahfoudh M'Balla | Tewassoul | 27 ![]() | |
Abstentions | 2 | ||
Null votes | 3 | ||
Absentees | 7 |
Arrest of Biram Dah Abeid
[change | change source]Biram Dah Abeid was arrested on 24 May. He was the leader of the Democratic Alternation Coalition and re-elected deputy for Sawab+.[4] He was arrested because he said that if the results of the elections are accepted, then "the free Mauritanians will carry weapons against the current regime" during a rally the day before. He also said in his speech that he was "committed to peace" but that he "wouldn't lie to the Mauritanian people" and that "election fraud was the reason the army couped former president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya".[5]
Opposition parties RAG,[6] Sawab,[7] Hope Mauritania,[8] the Union of the Forces of Progress,[9] the Rally of Democratic Forces,[9] and the People's Progressive Alliance said that the arrest was bad.[9]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "لجنة الانتخابات: حصل تلاعب في نتائج الميناء وصحح وأحيل للقضاء" [Election Commission: There was a manipulation of the results of El Mina, which were corrected and referred to the judiciary]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 19 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "My CENI Résultats 2023". res-myceni.org (in Arabic and French). National Independent Election Commission. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ↑ "انتخاب ولد مكت رئيسا للبرلمان الموريتاني الجديد" [Election of Ould Meguett as President of the new Mauritanian Parliament]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 2023-06-19. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ↑ "الشرطة توقف النائب البرلماني بيرام الداه اعبيدي" [The police arrested the deputy Biram Dah Abeid]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 24 May 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ "ولد اعبيدي: إذا اعتمدت انتخابات 13 مايو فسيحمل أحرار موريتانيا السلاح (فيديو)" [Ould Abeid: If the May 13 elections are adopted, the free of Mauritania will bear arms (video)]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 23 May 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ "ولد يالي: بيرام الداه اعبيد لم يكن يوما يريد الفتنة" [Ould Yali: Biram Dah Abeid has never wanted conflict]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ "حزب الصواب يدين "التوقيف الظالم" لولد اعبيدي ويطالب بإطلاق سراحه" [Sawab condemns the "unjust arrest" of Ould Abeid and demands his release]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ ""أمل موريتانيا" يندد باعتقال ولد اعبيدي ويطالب بإطلاق سراحه" [Hope Mauritania denounces the arrest of Ould Abeid and demands his release]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "المعارضة: اعتقال بيرام الداه اعبيد زيادة غير مسبوقة في حالة الاحتقان" [Opposition: Biram Dah Abeid's arrest is an unprecedented increase in congestion]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.