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Mauritania Main: 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election
13 and 27 May 2023
TBD →
Party
Votes
%
Seats
El Insaf
342,153
35.3%
107
Tewassoul
99,475
10.3%
11
UDP
58,823
6.1%
10
Sawab–RAG
39,807
4.1%
5
Hope MR
32,315
3.3%
7
AND
31,987
3.3%
6
El Islah
31,854
3.3%
6
HATEM
28,124
2.9%
3
El Karama
25,437
2.6%
5
Nida El Watan
24,268
2.5%
5
AJD/MR+
21,163
2.2%
4
HIWAR
20,206
2.1%
3
PMM
20,187
2.1%
1
El Vadila
17,301
1.8%
2
CED
15,028
1.6%
1
Others
162,370
16.7%
0
Total
970,498
100.0%
176

This is the results breakdown of the parliamentary elections held in Mauritania on 13 and 27 May 2023. The following tables will show detailed results in all of the electoral districts of the country.

Electoral system

On 26 September 2022 all Mauritanian political parties reached an agreement sponsored by the Ministry of Interior and Decentralisation to reform the election system ahead of the upcoming elections after weeks of meetings between all parties. [1]

The 176 members (an increase of 17 members compared to 2018) of the National Assembly will be elected by two methods (with Mauritanians being able to cast four different votes in a parallel voting system); 125 are elected from single- or multi-member electoral districts based on the departments (or moughataas) that the country is subdivided in [a] (with the exception of Nouakchott, which has been divided in three 7-seat constituencies for this election based on the three regions (or wilayas) the city is subdivided in instead of the single 18-seat constituency that was used in 2018), [1] using either the two-round system or proportional representation; in single-member constituencies candidates require a majority of the vote to be elected in the first round and a plurality in the second round. In two-seat constituencies, voters vote for a party list (which must contain one man and one woman); if no list receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round is held, with the winning party taking both seats. In constituencies with three or more seats, closed list proportional representation is used, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method. [3] For three-seat constituencies, party lists must include a female candidate in first or second on the list; for larger constituencies a zipper system is used, with alternate male and female candidates. [3]

The Mauritania diaspora gets allocated four seats, with this election being the first time Mauritanians in the diaspora are able to directly elect their representatives. [1]

The remaining 51 seats are elected from three nationwide constituencies, also using closed list proportional representation: a 20-seat national list (which uses a zipper system), a 20-seat women's national list and a new 11-seat youth list (with two reserved for people with special needs), which also uses a zipper system to guarantee the representation of women. [1] [3]

Overall

Results

National lists

National list

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PartyVotes%Seats
El Insaf342,15336.237
National Rally for Reform and Development99,43110.532
Union for Democracy and Progress58,8236.231
Democratic Alternation Pole39,8074.221
Hope Mauritania32,2963.421
National Democratic Alliance32,0273.391
El Islah31,8773.381
Mauritanian Party of Union and Change28,1242.981
El Karama25,4372.691
Nida El Watan24,2682.571
Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal21,1632.241
Party of Conciliation and Prosperity20,2082.141
Party of the Mauritanian Masses20,2062.141
Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal19,1102.020
Union of the Forces of Progress17,3871.840
El Vadila17,3031.830
Party of Unity and Development16,1341.710
State of Justice Coalition15,0281.590
Rally of Democratic Forces14,6481.550
Burst of Youth for the Nation14,3451.520
El Ravah13,8581.470
People's Progressive Alliance12,1151.280
National Cohesion for Rights and the Construction of Generations10,4201.100
Party of Construction and Progress9,2810.980
Centre through Action for Progress8,8130.930
Total944,262100.0020
Valid votes970,55374.36
Invalid votes308,43323.63
Blank votes26,2912.01
Total votes1,305,277100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,786,44873.07

Notes

  1. ^ Six new departments were created in September 2021, which have led to an increase in seats representing them. [1] [2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "نص الاتفاق النهائي بين وزارة الداخلية والأحزاب السياسية" [The text of the final agreement between the Ministry of the Interior and political parties]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 27 September 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  2. ^ Edition of the Official Journal of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania carrying the decrees establishing the new departments (in French)
  3. ^ a b c Electoral system IPU