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{{Politics of Guinea}}
[[Guinea]] elects on the national level a [[head of state]]—the [[List of heads of state of Guinea|president]]—and a [[legislature]]. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people through a [[two-round system]] (i.e. if no candidate secures a majority of the votes, there is a runoff between the top two vote-getters).<ref name=IFES2015>{{cite web |url=http://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/2588/ |title=Oct. 11, 2015: Republic of Guinea |publisher=[[International Foundation for Electoral Systems]]}}</ref> The [[National Assembly of Guinea|National Assembly]] (''Assemblée Nationale'') has 114 members, elected for five-year terms, 38 members in single-seat [[constituency|constituencies]] and 76 members by [[proportional representation]].<ref name=IFES2015/><ref name=IPUES>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2131_B.htm |title=Guinea Assemblée nationale (National Assembly): Electoral System |publisher=[[Inter-Parliamentary Union]]}}</ref>

Voters must be at least 18 years old and Guinean citizens in full possession of civil and political rights.<ref name=IPUES/> Candidates must be at 18, either Guinean by citizenship or naturalized and resident in the country for at least 10 years.<ref name=IPUES/> There are also various disqualifications.<ref name=IPUES/>

==History==
When Guinea gained its independence from France in 1958, [[Ahmed Sékou Touré]] became its first president, as his [[Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally|''Parti démocratique de Guinée'']] (DPG, Democratic Party of Guinea) had won 56 of 60 seats in the [[1957 Guinean Territorial Assembly election|1957 Territorial Assembly election]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://africanelections.tripod.com/gn.html |title=Elections in Guinea: 31 March 1957 Territorial Assembly Election |publisher=African Elections Database |website=africanelections.tripod.com}}</ref> By 1960, he had declared the DPG the only legal party, so, for the next 24 years, all the voters could do was elect the DPG candidates to the National Assembly, while Touré ran unopposed for the presidency three more times.<ref name=WP>{{cite news |title=5 things you should know about Guinea’s (peaceful!) election |author=Tyson Roberts |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=20 October 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/10/20/5-things-you-should-know-about-guineas-peaceful-election/}}</ref>

After Touré's death in 1984, Colonels [[Lansana Conté]] and [[Diarra Traoré]] seized power in a bloodless [[coup d'état]], with Conté assuming the presidency.<ref name=WP/> In December 1990, a new constitution created a [[Unicameralism|unicameral]] Parliament.<ref name=IPU1995>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2131_95.htm |title=Guinea Parliamentary Chamber: Assemblée nationale: Elections Held in 1995 |publisher=Inter-Parliamentary Union}}</ref> In April 1992, legislation was passed making Guinea a [[multi-party state]].<ref name=IPU1995/> The following year, Conté announced a return to civilian rule, with Guinea's [[1993 Guinean presidential election|first multi-party presidential election]] taking place in 1993,<ref>{{cite news |title=Lansana Conté |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=30 December 2008 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4031475/Lansana-Cont.html}}</ref> followed by a [[1995 Guinean legislative election|legislative election in 1995]].<ref name=IPU1995/> Conté remained president, with 51.7% of the vote, while his [[Party of Unity and Progress]] (PUP, ''Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès'') won 71 of the 114 seats in the Assembly.<ref name=IPU1995/><ref name=BBC>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13443183 |title=Guinea profile - Timeline |date=1 September 2016 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> He was re-elected president in [[1998 Guinean presidential election|1998]], with 56.1% of the vote, and [[2003 Guinean presidential election|2003]], with 95.6% of the vote after all the major opposition leaders boycotted the election.<ref name=WP/><ref name=BBC/> His party also won 85 seats in the Assembly in [[2002 Guinean legislative election|2002]], with some opposition parties choosing to boycott.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2131_02.htm |title=Guinea Assemblée nationale (National Assembly): Elections in 2002 |publisher=Inter-Parliamentary Union}}</ref>

Shortly after Conté's death in December 2008, [[Moussa Dadis Camara]] seized power.<ref name=WP/><ref name=BBC/> In December 2009, Camara was shot in the head in an assassination attempt and left the country to obtain medical care.<ref name=WP/><ref name=BBC/> The following month, Camara agreed to a return to civilian rule.

No candidate won a majority of the votes in the first round of the [[2010 Guinean presidential election|2010 presidential election]], so [[Cellou Dalein Diallo]] and [[Alpha Condé]], the top vote-getters (with 43.69% and 18.25%, respectively), contested a second round, which was delayed several times.<ref name=BBC/> Condé finally emerged victorious,<ref name=BBC/> with 52.54% of the ballots. His [[Guinean People's Assembly]] party (RPG, ''Rassemblement du Peuple Guinéen'') took 53 of the 114 Assembly seats in the repeatedly delayed [[2013 Guinean legislative election|2013 election]], and seven seats won by allies gave the RPG a majority.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2131_E.htm |title=Guinea Assemblée nationale (National Assembly): Last Elections |publisher=Inter-Parliamentary Union}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ndi.org/guinea |title=Guinea: Strengthening Guinea’s Democratic Institutions |publisher=[[National Democratic Institute]]}}</ref> He himself was re-elected in [[2015 Guinean presidential election|2015]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Guinea President’s Re-election Confirmed Despite Fraud Complaints |author=Dionne Searcey |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 November 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/world/africa/guinea-president-alpha-conde-re-election-confirmed.html?_r=0}}</ref>

==Latest elections==

=== 2015 presidential election ===
{{Main|2015 Guinean presidential election}}
Alpha Condé is re-elected.

{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!Candidate
!Party
!Votes
!%
|-
|align=left|[[Alpha Condé]]||align=left|[[Rally of the Guinean People]]||2,285,827||57.85
|-
|align=left|[[Cellou Dalein Diallo]]||align=left|[[Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea]]||1,242,362||31.44
|-
|align=left|[[Sidya Touré]]||align=left|[[Union of Republican Forces]]||237,549||6.01
|-
|align=left|Faya Lansana Millimouno||align=left|Liberal Bloc||54,718||1.38
|-
|align=left|El Hadj Papa Koly Kourouma||align=left|Generations for Reconciliation, Union, and Prosperity||51,750||1.31
|-
|align=left|[[Lansana Kouyaté]]||align=left|National Party for Hope and Development||45,962||1.16
|-
|align=left|Ghandi Faraguet Tounkara||align=left|Guinean Union for Democracy and Development||19,840||0.50
|-
|align=left|Marie Madeilein Dioubaté||align=left|Guinea Ecologists Party||13,214||0.33
|-
|align=left colspan=2|Invalid/blank votes||179,804||–
|-
|align=left colspan=2|'''Total'''||'''4,131,026'''||'''100'''
|-
|align=left colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||6,042,634||68.36
|-
|colspan=4 align=left|Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20151023070051/http://www.ceniguinee.org/attachments/article/137/ceni_recapitulatif_general_election_presidentielle_resultat_synthese.pdf CENI] (98.2% of polling stations reporting)
|}

===2020 legislative election===
{{Main|2020 Guinean legislative election}}
The elections were boycotted by the main opposition parties. As a result, President Condé's party won a supermajority of seats.

{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
|-
|colspan=15 align=center|[[File:Guinée Assemblée nationale 2020.svg]]
|-
!rowspan=2|Party
!colspan=3|Constituency
!colspan=3|Proportional
!rowspan=2|Total<br>seats
!rowspan=2|+/–
|-
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!Votes
!%
!Seats
|-
|align=left|[[Rally of the Guinean People]]–Rainbow||2,417,476 ||88.94 ||37||1,591,650||55.27||42||79||+26
|-
|align=left|[[Guinean Democratic Union]]||56,085 ||2.06 ||0||151,576||5.26||4||4||New
|-
|align=left|[[Guinean Popular Democratic Movement]]||74,343 || 2.73||0||113,702||3.95||3||3||New
|-
|align=left|[[New Democratic Forces (Guinea)|New Democratic Forces]]||4,711 ||0.17 ||1||76,612||2.66||2||3||New
|-
|align=left|[[Union for Progress and Renewal (Guinea)|Union for Progress and Renewal]]||14,597 || 0.54||0||76,512||2.66||2||2||+1
|-
|align=left|[[Rally for the Integrated Development of Guinea]]||23,901 ||0.88 ||0||76,412||2.65||2||2||+1
|-
|align=left|[[Union of the Forces of Change (Guinea)|Union of the Forces of Change]]||–||–||–||76,208||2.65||2||2||New
|-
|align=left|[[Democratic Alternation for Reform–Constructive Opposition Bloc]]||–||–||–||76,188||2.65||2||2||New
|-
|align=left|[[Guinea for Democracy and Balance]]|| 31,671||1.16 ||0||76,012||2.64||2||2||New
|-
|align=left|[[Guinean Party for Renaissance and Progress]]||–||–||–||39,706||1.38||1||1||0
|-
|align=left|[[Afia Party]]||–||–||–||39,126||1.36||1||1||+1
|-
|align=left|[[Civic Generation]]||–||–||–||39,106||1.36||1||1||+1
|-
|align=left|[[Forces of Integrity for Development]]||–||–||–||39,106||1.36||1||1||New
|-
|align=left|[[Guinean Party for Progress and Development]]||–||–||–||38,430||1.33||1||1||+1
|-
|align=left|[[Rally for Renaissance and Development]]||10,608 ||0.39 ||0||38,310||1.33||1||1||New
|-
|align=left|[[Party for Peace and Development]]||–||–||–||38,176||1.33||1||1||New
|-
|align=left|[[Alliance for National Renewal]]||–||–||–||37,906||1.32||1||1||New
|-
|align=left|Union of Democratic Forces|| 13,923||0.51 ||0||37,900||1.32||1||1||+1
|-
|align=left|[[Movement of Patriots for Development]]||–||–||–||29,996||1.04||1||1||New
|-
|align=left|[[Alliance for National Renewal]]||–||–||–||29,800||1.03||1||1||New
|-
|align=left|[[New Generation for the Republic]]||12,917 || 0.47||0||29,800||1.03||1||1||0
|-
|align=left|[[Guinea United for Development]]||–||–||–||29,140||1.01||1||1||0
|-
|align=left|[[Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally|PDG–RDA]]||–||–||–||27,640||0.96||1||1||+1
|-
|align=left|[[Rally for a Prosperous Guinea]]||–||–||–||27,400||0.95||1||1||+1
|-
|align=left|Democratic Party of Conservatives||16,441 ||0.60 ||0||12,324||0.43||0||0||New
|-
|align=left|Guinean Party of the Renaissance||–||–||–||10,204||0.35||0||0||New
|-
|align=left|Union for the Defence of Republican Interests|| 24,046|| 0.88||0||7,536||0.26||0||0||New
|-
|align=left|Guinean Rally for Unity and Development||–||–||–||5,494||0.19||0||0||0
|-
|align=left|Rally for the Republic||–||–||–||5,422||0.19||0||0||New
|-
|align=left|Pan-African Party of Guinea||–||–||–||2,550||0.09||0||0||New
|-
|align=left|Alliance of Forces for Change||4,698 ||0.17 ||0||–||–||–||0||–
|-
|align=left|Party of the National Defense for Development||1,333 ||0.05 ||0||–||–||–||0||–
|-
|align=left|Party New Vision||8,038 || 0.30||0||–||–||–||0||–
|-
|align=left|Invalid/blank votes||252,940 ||–||–||126,111||–||–||–||–
|-style=font-weight:bold
|align=left|Total||2,968,087 ||100||38||3,006,055||100||76||114||0
|-
|align=left|Registered voters/turnout||5,179,600||57.30 ||– ||5,179,600||58.04|| || ||
|-
|align=left colspan=12|Source: [http://ceni.org.gn/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ceni_synthese_resultats_listes_nationales_22032020_version_final-1.pdf CENI] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101095215/http://ceni.org.gn/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ceni_synthese_resultats_listes_nationales_22032020_version_final-1.pdf |date=2021-01-01 }}, [https://courconstitutionnelle.gov.gn/wp-content/uploads/documents/2020/DECISION%20N%C2%B0AE%20008%2014-04-2020.pdf CC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922152632/https://courconstitutionnelle.gov.gn/wp-content/uploads/documents/2020/DECISION%20N%C2%B0AE%20008%2014-04-2020.pdf |date=2020-09-22 }}
|}

==Election commission==
The [[Independent National Electoral Commission (Guinea)|Independent National Electoral Commission]] ({{langx|fr|Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante}}, CENI) is the [[election commission]] in Guinea.<ref name="eu-delegation-press-release-1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eueom.eu/files/pressreleases/english/20151019_Communique_MOEUE_Guinee.pdf|title= La Mission d'observation électorale de l'Union européenne encourage la CENI à publier tous les résultats détaillés par bureau de vote dans les plus brefs délais au niveau central|publisher=European External Action Service|access-date=20 October 2015|date=19 October 2015|language=fr}}</ref> The body was established in November 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/78943/guinea-elections-in-doubt-for-2008 |title=Elections in doubt for 2008 |publisher=[[The New Humanitarian|IRIN]] |date=28 June 2008}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of political parties in Guinea]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/g/guinea/ Adam Carr's Election Archive]
*[http://africanelections.tripod.com/gn.html African Elections Database]

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