Elections in Guinea

When Guinea gained its independence from France in 1958, Ahmed Sékou Touré became its first president, as his Parti démocratique de Guinée (DPG, Democratic Party of Guinea) had won 56 of 60 seats in the 1957 Territorial Assembly election.{{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}} 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.{{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/}}

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. In December 1990, a new constitution created a unicameral Parliament.{{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}} In April 1992, legislation was passed making Guinea a multi-party state. The following year, Conté announced a return to civilian rule, with Guinea's first multi-party presidential election taking place in 1993,{{cite news |title=Lansana Conté |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=30 December 2008 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4031475/Lansana-Cont.html}} followed by a legislative election in 1995. 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13443183 |title=Guinea profile - Timeline |date=1 September 2016 |publisher=BBC}} He was re-elected president in 1998, with 56.1% of the vote, and 2003, with 95.6% of the vote after all the major opposition leaders boycotted the election. His party also won 85 seats in the Assembly in 2002, with some opposition parties choosing to boycott.{{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}}

Shortly after Conté's death in December 2008, Moussa Dadis Camara seized power. In December 2009, Camara was shot in the head in an assassination attempt and left the country to obtain medical care. 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 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. Condé finally emerged victorious, 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 election, and seven seats won by allies gave the RPG a majority.{{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}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ndi.org/guinea |title=Guinea: Strengthening Guinea’s Democratic Institutions |publisher=National Democratic Institute}} He himself was re-elected in 2015.{{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}}

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Alpha Condé is re-elected.

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The elections were boycotted by the main opposition parties. As a result, President Condé's party won a supermajority of seats.

The Independent National Electoral Commission ({{langx|fr|Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante}}, CENI) is the election commission in Guinea.{{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}} The body was established in November 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/78943/guinea-elections-in-doubt-for-2008 |title=Elections in doubt for 2008 |publisher=IRIN |date=28 June 2008}}

• List of political parties in Guinea

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• [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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