Elections to the National Assembly of Senegal 2012

The elections for the National Assembly of Senegal 2012 took place on July 1, 2012 in the West African state of Senegal . The absolute majority of the votes and a two-thirds majority of the seats went to the APR-Yaakaar party (" United in Hope"), whose presidential candidate Macky Sall had already emerged victorious from the 2012 presidential election in Senegal . The second strongest party was the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais of long-time President Abdoulaye Wade with only 15% of the votes - in 2007 it had won more than 60% of the votes as part of the so-called Sopi coalition .

Suffrage

The composition of the Senegalese National Assembly is determined by a mixture of proportional and majority voting: 60 of the 150 seats are allocated proportionally to the nationwide votes, the rest by majority vote in the 90 electoral districts. A 2010 electoral law change also stipulated that women had to make 50% of the candidates on every party list. 64 women then actually won a seat in the National Assembly. With the filmmaker Laurence Gavron, a woman of European descent stood for the first time in Senegal.

Results

Of the 25 parties that stood for election, only six parties were able to win more than two percent of the vote, only the two largest got a double-digit percentage of the vote. After the constitution of the 12th National Assembly, the MPs elected Moustapha Niasse as President.

12th National Assembly

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A total of 150 seats

• APR Yaakaar : 119
• Parti Démocratique Sénégalais : 12
• Bokk G sharp G sharp : 4
• Citizens' movement for national reforms : 4
• Republican Movement for Socialism and Democracy : 2
• Truth and Development Party : 2
• Otherwise: 7

Political party	be right	%	Seats
APR-Yaakaar	1,040,899	53.06	119
Parti Démocratique Sénégalais	298 846	15.23	12
Bokk G sharp G sharp	143 180	7.30	4th
Citizens' movement for national reforms	113 321	5.78	4th
Republican Movement for Socialism and Democracy	70 655	3.60	2
Party for Truth and Development	48 553	2.47	2
Union for Democratic Renewal	21 964	1.12	1
Senegalese Patriotic Movement	21 868	1.11	1
Patriotic assembly for justice and equality	20 762	1.06	1
Party for making citizens visible	20 671	1.05	1
Deggo Souxali Transport ak Commerce	18 859	0.96	1
Leeral coalition	17 791	0.91	1
And Jëf / PADS	15 889	0.81	1
Democratic Alliance	14 841	0.76	0
And Taxawal Askan Wi Coalition	12 922	0.47	0
Wallu Askan Senegal coalition	12 044	0.61	0
Senegalese Ecologists' Assembly	11 783	0.60	0
Salam coalition	10 855	0.55	0
Authentic Socialist Party	9 577	0.49	0
Lii Dal Na Xel Coalition	9 216	0.47	0
Taxawu Askan Wi party	8 107	0.41	0
Synergy for progress and democracy	7 326	0.37	0
United Coalition of the People	6 717	0.34	0
Citizen Democracy	5 130	0.26	0
Invalid votes	7 076	-	-
Total	1 968 852	100	150
Registered voters / turnout	5 368 783	36.67	-
Source: African Elections Database

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1. ^ Runoff elections in Senegal: Permanent President Wade admits defeat. In: Spiegel Online . March 26, 2012, accessed June 10, 2018 . 
2. ↑ http://africanelections.tripod.com/sn.html#2007_National_Assembly_Election accessed on February 23, 2013
3. ↑ http://www.makeeverywomancount.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3879:senegal-parliamentary-elections-july-1&catid=75:2012-elections-monitoring&Itemid=198 accessed on February 23, 2012
4. ↑ http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/white-woman-stands-in-senegal-elections-1.1330770#.USfOO2fNl8E accessed on February 23, 2012