2015 Comorian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Comoros on 25 January 2015, alongside local elections. A second round of voting was held on 22 February in the 21 constituencies where no candidate won in the first round.[1] The Union for the Development of the Comoros emerged as the largest party, winning eight of the 24 seats in the Assembly of the Union.
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Background
The term of the Assembly of the Union elected in 2009 was due to expire in April 2014, but was extended.[2] Elections were initially scheduled for early November 2014, but in September President Ikililou Dhoinine announced that they would be delayed until 28 December, with the second round planned for 1 February.[2] They were later delayed again until January 2015.
Electoral system
The 33 members of the Assembly of the Union were elected by two methods; 24 members were directly elected in single member constituencies using the two-round system, whilst nine members were elected by the Island assemblies.[3]
Campaign
The campaigning period officially began on 25 December. A total of 204 candidates registered to run for election to the Assembly, whilst 353 candidates contested the council elections.[4]
Results
| Party | First round | Second round | Total seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
| Union for the Development of the Comoros | 33,229 | 18.47 | 2 | 49,079 | 29.07 | 6 | 8 |
| Juwa Party | 32,373 | 17.99 | 1 | 34,569 | 20.47 | 6 | 7 |
| Democratic Rally of the Comoros | 18,751 | 10.42 | 0 | 35,953 | 21.29 | 2 | 2 |
| Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros | 13,030 | 7.24 | 0 | 17,123 | 10.14 | 2 | 2 |
| Orange Party | 10,897 | 6.06 | 0 | 1,644 | 0.97 | 0 | 0 |
| Rally for an Alternative of Harmonious and Integrated Development | 6,415 | 3.57 | 0 | 8,615 | 5.10 | 1 | 1 |
| Party for the Comorian Agreement | 2,878 | 1.60 | 0 | 3,262 | 1.93 | 1 | 1 |
| Rally for Democracy and Renewal | 2,865 | 1.59 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| National Alliance for the Comoros | 2,742 | 1.52 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Comorian Union for Progress | 2,713 | 1.51 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Movement for the Republic, Openness, and Unity of the Comoros Archipelago | 2,308 | 1.28 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| National Union for Democracy in the Comoros | 1,332 | 0.74 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| WWW | 1,094 | 0.61 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Djawabu Party | 947 | 0.53 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Bassemala Party | 907 | 0.50 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Rally for a Development Initiative with an Enlightened Youth | 810 | 0.45 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| National Rally for Development–Renewal | 665 | 0.37 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| ADD ZAM-ZAM | 406 | 0.23 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Islands' Fraternity and Unity Party | 277 | 0.15 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Democratic Front | 255 | 0.14 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Mwashiwa Party | 170 | 0.09 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| MCJC | 112 | 0.06 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Social Democrat Party of the Comoros–Dudja | 86 | 0.05 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Independents | 44,649 | 24.82 | 0 | 18,603 | 11.02 | 3 | 3 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 15,959 | – | – | 14,946 | – | – | – |
| Total | 195,870 | 100 | 3 | 183,794 | 100 | 21 | 24 |
| Registered voters/turnout | 274,505 | 71.35 | – | 251,595 | 73.05 | – | – |
| Source: CENI, CENI | |||||||
Elected MPs
References
- Comoros: Controversy surrounding the election commission on the eve of the start of the campaign for parliamentary and municipal elections Archived 2015-01-21 at the Wayback Machine Indian Ocean Times, 15 December 2014
- Comoran elections delayed two months without explanation AFP, 22 September 2014
- Electoral system IPU
- Comoros: The lists of candidates for the different polls published by the Constitutional Court Archived 2015-01-21 at the Wayback Machine Indian Ocean Times, 24 December 2014
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