2020 Cameroonian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Cameroon on 9 February 2020, together with municipal elections.[1] The Cameroon People's Democratic Movement retained its majority in parliament, winning 139 of the 167 seats decided on election day.

Cameroon
This article is part of a series on the
politics and government of
Cameroon
 Cameroon portal

Background

The elections had originally been scheduled for 2018.[2] However, in June 2018 President Paul Biya sent a letter to leader of the Senate seeking to delay the elections until October 2019.[3] On 2 July 2019 parliament voted to extend its mandate by twelve months.[4] Ahead of that date the following June, documents leaked on social media purporting to show Biya's negotiations with parliamentary leaders to further delay parliamentary elections to coincide with municipal elections in February 2020.[5] The ongoing Anglophone Crisis dominated the process, with supporters of Ambazonia calling for a boycott of the election.

Electoral system

The 180 members of the National Assembly are elected from 58 single- and multi-member constituencies based on the departments.[6] In single-member constituencies, first-past-the-post voting is used. In multi-member constituencies, a modified form of closed list proportional representation is used, in which a party receiving over 50% of the vote in a constituency wins all the seats, but if no party receives over 50% of the vote, the party with the most votes is awarded half the seats and any other party receiving over 5% of the vote receives a proportional share of the remaining half of the seats based on the largest remainder method and Hare quota.[7]

Results
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement139–9
National Union for Democracy and Progress7+2
Social Democratic Front5–13
Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation5New
Cameroon Democratic Union40
Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon3+3
Movement for the Defence of the Republic2+1
Union of Socialist Movements2+2
Other parties0–
Vacant––13–
Invalid/blank votes79,753–––
Total3,021,9471001800
Registered voters/turnout6,900,92843.79––
Source: Koaci, IPU
gollark: 400 for what?
gollark: Hid6.
gollark: My site is mostly static, so I can just have it save the HTML/JS/CSS in the cache.
gollark: You couldn't do it with that, since it relies on the Google backend to actually do searching.
gollark: Also, service workers are cool. With a bunch of service worker meddling, I've made it so that pages you've visited are cached locally so you can see them again even without an internet connection.

References
  1. Cameroun - Législatives et municipales 2020: Selon ELECAM, aucun incident majeur «de nature à troubler le déroulement du scrutin» n'a été signalé dans le pays Cameroon-Info, 10 February 2020
  2. Cameroon kicks off busy election year with senatorial polls Africa News, 13 February 2018
  3. Cameroon seeks to delay elections 3 News, 16 June 2018
  4. Cameroun - Élections législatives : pas de scrutin avant 2019 Le Point Afrique, 4 July 2018
  5. Cameroon: Mandates of Councilors, MPs to be extended until 2020 Archived 2019-08-20 at the Wayback Machine Cameroon-Info, 19 June 2019
  6. Electoral system IPU
  7. Cameroon Election Passport
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.