Parliamentary election in Cameroon 2020

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The parliamentary elections in Cameroon 2020 took place on February 9, 2020. The 180 members of the National Assembly in Cameroon were elected . Local elections were held at the same time . The ELECAM electoral commission was responsible for running the election . The ruling party Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC) received 152 seats.

Starting position

The last parliamentary election took place on September 30, 2013. The next election due in 2018 was postponed twice until it coincided with the regular local elections.

In 2013, President Paul Biya's party , Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC), won 148 seats. The Front Social Démocrate (FSD) won 18 seats, the Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (UNDP) five seats. The Union Démocratique du Cameroun (UDC) won four seats, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) three and one seat each went to the Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun (MRC) and the Mouvement pour la Défense de la République (MDR) .

Electoral process

The 180 members of the National Assembly are elected partly individually in constituencies by majority vote, partly in multi-seat constituencies according to the following electoral law: If a party receives more than 50% of the vote, it receives all the seats in the constituency. Otherwise the strongest party receives half of the seats in the constituency, the other parties are taken into account proportionally according to the Hare-Niemeyer method . The 58 constituencies correspond to the departments.

Done in the run-up to the election

Traditionally associated with the English-speaking minority in the West - known as South Cameroon or Ambazonia - the FSD was prevented from nominating many candidates by English-speaking separatists, for example by kidnapping potential applicants. There were fatal attacks on civilians in the region by both separatists and, in Bali , by security forces. Separatists kidnapped over a hundred people, set fire to at least three ELECAM offices and threatened potential voters with retaliation.

The MRC declined to participate in the election. There were no opposition candidates in numerous constituencies.

For the first time, the electoral lists of the CPDM were alternately filled with men and women.

Result and further events

Before the parliamentary election ballots, those of the local elections were counted; the result of the election to the National Assembly was expected for February 27th. In the English-speaking part, turnout was low. In eleven English-speaking districts, the election had to be repeated on March 22nd due to organizational deficiencies; the vote was judged to be “not free and fair”.

According to preliminary results, the RDPC received 139 of the 167 seats that had been allocated until then. The 13 mandates of the English-speaking region also won the RDPC, which thus came to 152 of the 180 mandates. With seven members, the UNDP is the second largest group.

Web links

  • Website of the Electoral Commission ELECAM (English / French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Election statistics at electionguide.org (English), accessed on February 16, 2020
  2. ↑ CAMEROON Assemblée nationale - National Assembly. archive.ipu.org (French / English), accessed on February 16, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Cameroon: Election Violence in Anglophone Regions. hrw.org of February 12, 2020 (English), accessed on February 17, 2020
  4. ↑ Cameroon elections: a vote marked by violence and abstention. dw.com from February 8, 2020 (English), accessed on February 16, 2020
  5. ↑ Sam Mayem: Cameroun - législatives et municipales 2020: Les résultats de la region de l'ouest sont déjà… fabriqués. cameroonvoice.com of February 13, 2020 (French), accessed on February 16, 2020
  6. ↑ epd : Election in contested regions of Cameroon invalid. evangelisch.de of February 26, 2020, accessed on February 26, 2020
  7. ↑ Cameroon's Biya decrees March 22 for annulled polls in anglophone zone. africanews.com, March 7, 2020, accessed March 7, 2020
  8. ↑ Cameroon ruling party sweeps by-elections in anglophone regions. pulse.co.gh of April 7, 2020 (English), accessed April 7, 2020
  9. ↑ Alize Mbohou: Elections législatives: le RDPC rafle la mise. cameroon-tribune.cm from March 2, 2020 (English), accessed on March 6, 2020