Parliamentary elections in East Timor 2001

Result of the 2001 election

Distribution of seats in 2001

The first parliamentary elections in East Timor were held on August 30, 2001. At that time the country was still under UNTAET administration , since international troops had taken control of the Indonesian occupiers. The parliament received its full sovereignty with East Timor's independence on May 20, 2002. Since it was the first parliamentary election, a total of 88 seats were available including 13 seats for the directly elected representatives of the districts . The election winner was the party that led the majority of the resistance against the Indonesian occupiers and that had proclaimed the independence of East Timor as early as 1975, the FRETILIN . She received 55 seats, including 12 of the district representatives. Only in Oe-Cusse Ambeno did the independent candidate António da Costa Lelan win the direct mandate. Other independent candidates were Maria Domingas Alves , Daniel da Silva Ramalho , Maria Olandina Isabel Caeiro Alves , Teresa Maria de Carvalho and Domingos Alves .

Political party	political Direction	Number of votes	Share of votes	District MPs (share of votes)	Total seats
Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente FRETILIN	Left	208,531	57.37%	12 (66.05%)	55
Partido Democrático PD	Middle right	31,680	8.72%	0 (5.88%)	7th
Partido Social Democrata PSD	Middle right	29,726	8.18%	0 (4.76%)	6th
Associação Social-Democrata de Timor ASDT	conservative	28,495	7.84%	0 (10.73%)	6th
União Democrática Timorense UDT	right conservative	8,581	2.36%	0 (2.30%)	2
Partido Nasionalista Timorense PNT	nationalistic, friendly to Indonesia	8,035	2.21%	0	2
Klibur Oan Timor Asuwain KOTA	right	7,735	2.13%	0	2
Partido do Povo de Timor PPT	conservative	7,322	2.01%	0	2
Partido Democrata Cristão PDC	Christian	7.181	1.98%	0	2
Partido Socialista de Timor PST	Marxist-Leninist	6,483	1.78%	0	1
Partai Liberal PL	liberal, right	4.013	1.10%	0	1
Partido Democrata-Cristão de Timor UDC / PDC	conservative	2,413	0.66%	0	1
Independent		5,341	1.47%	1 (10.28%)	1
Associação Popular Democrática Timorense APODETI	populist	2,181	0.60%	0	0
Partido Trabalhista PT	democratic, socialist	2,026	0.56%	0	0
Partido Republika Nacional Timor Leste PARENTILE	conservative	1,970	0.54%	0	0
Partai Democracy Marine PDM	right	1,788	0.49%	0	0
invalid		20,747	5.40%
total		384.248	100.00%	13	88

Directly elected MPs
District	MP	Political party	Number of votes	Share of votes
Aileu	Alfredo da Silva	FRETILIN	5.118	57.47%
Ainaro	Mario Ferreira	FRETILIN	6,050	34.63%
Baucau	Elias Freitas	FRETILIN	38,525	85.97%
Bobonaro	José Andrade da Cruz	FRETILIN	18,743	60.34%
Cova Lima	Gervásio Cardoso de Jesus da Silva	FRETILIN	13,961	65.74%
Dili	Cipriana da Costa Pereira	FRETILIN	47,855	72.49%
Ermera	José Soares	FRETILIN	14,724	39.79%
Lautém	Armindo da Conceiçaõ Silva Freitas	FRETILIN	12,766	54.93%
Liquiçá	Joaquim Barros Soares	FRETILIN	16,247	78.43%
Manatuto	Flávio Maria Guterres da Silva	FRETILIN	8,501	55.04%
Manufahi	Arão Noé de Jesus da Costa Amaral	FRETILIN	10,235	75.12%
Oe-Cusse Ambeno	Antonio da Costa Lelan	independently	8,207	36.06%
Viqueque	Januario Soares	FRETILIN	22,721	81.62%

See also

• History of East Timor
• List of Members of the National Parliament of East Timor 2001–2007

Web links

• Official website of Parliament
• Lurdes Silva-Carneiro de Sousa: Some Facts and Comments on the East Timor 2001 Constituent Assembly Election ( Memento of October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( RTF ; 199 kB), Lusotopie 2001: pp. 299–311
• The parties of East Timor, Australian Council for Overseas Aid 2001 ( MS Word ; 174 kB)
• Election reports and lists of candidates

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SAPO.pt: Timor Leste vai às urnas: candidatos e propostas , August 29, 2001 , accessed on December 31, 2015.
2. ↑ UNTAET: 2001 CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS - List of elected district representatives September 17, 2001 , accessed on April 26, 2020.