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Elections in Senegal

Elections in Senegal

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Senegal elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a seven-year term by the people (between 2001 and 2008, it was a five-year term; this was changed back to the pre-2001 seven-year term in 2008,[1] though incumbent president Macky Sall has stated he wants to have it reverted to five-year terms[2]).

The National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) has 150 members, elected for a five-year term, in multi-seat constituencies. Senegal has a multi-party system.

Electoral law

Gender parity

In 2010, as a result of feminist campaigning,[3] Law 2010-11 of 28 May 2010 established "absolute parity" in all institutions that are "partially or totally" electoral. Lists of candidates have to alternate candidates of "the two sexes".[4]

In the 2012 parliamentary election, 64 of the 150 seats[5] (43%) were won by women candidates and in the 2022 election, 73 of the 165 seats (44%) were won by women.[6]

Latest elections

Presidential elections

Main article: 2024 Senegalese presidential election
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Parliamentary elections

Main article: 2022 Senegalese parliamentary election

Polls opened at 8:00 GMT and closed at 18:00 GMT on 31 July 2022. Partial results were expected to be announced on 31 July, with the provisional overall results to be announced on 5 August 2022.[8] Women won 64 of the 165 seats, in line with the requirement of the 2010 gender parity law on Senegalese elections.[6]

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See also

References

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    "Concern at Senegal term extension". 2008-07-30. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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    "Senegal's president concedes defeat; victory for African democracy". LA Times Blogs - World Now. 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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    Barrel Gueye; Selly Ba (7 July 2021), Senegalese Feminism Across Generations: From Radicalism to a More Inclusive Feminism, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Wikidata Q125142417, archived from the original on 25 March 2024
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    "Loi n° 2010-11 du 28 maLoi n° 2010-11 du 28 mai 2010 instituant la parité absolue Homme-Femmei 2010 instituant la parité absolue Homme-Femme" (PDF). journal officiel du Sénégal (in French). 28 May 2010. Wikidata Q125145915. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 March 2024.
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    Elections Législatives au Sénégal: le nombre de femmes députées a presque doublé (in French), UN Women, 12 July 2012, Wikidata Q125176572, archived from the original on 27 March 2024
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    Keisha Gitari (12 September 2022), Le Sénégal compte la plus forte proportion de femmes parlementaires en Afrique de l'Ouest (in French), BBC News, Wikidata Q125176756, archived from the original on 27 March 2024
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    "Portrait : Qui est Aliou Mamadou Dia, candidat du PUR à l'élection présidentielle de 2024". Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
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    "Senegal elects parliament in test for ruling party's influence". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
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    "DÉCISION n° 20-E-2022 AFFAIRES n° 28-E-22 et n° 29-E-22". 11 August 2022. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022.
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