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Elections in Guinea-Bissau
 
Political Profile
Political System: Democracy
President: João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira [since 01 October 2005] The President is elected by direct popular vote for a 5-year term. Electoral System: Two Round (Run-off).
Prime Minister: Martinho Ndafa Kabi (PAICV) [since 13 April 2007] The Prime Minister is appointed by the President after consultation with party leaders in the legislature.
National People’s Assembly [unicameral]: (100 Seats) Members are elected by direct popular vote in multi-member constituencies using the party-list proportional representation system; members serve 4-year terms.
Political Situation since Independence
1974-1980 One Party State (PAIGC)
1980-1984 Military Regime & One Party State (PAIGC)
1984-1991 One Party State (PAIGC)
1991-1994 Multiparty Transition
1994-1999 Democracy
1999         Transitional Government
1999-2003 Democracy
2003-2005 Transitional Government
2005-        Democracy
2007 Freedom House Rating: Political Rights - 4, Civil Liberties - 4, Status: Partly Free
Next Scheduled Presidential Election: 2010
Next Scheduled National Assembly Election: 2008
Political Parties: AD - Democratic Alliance, ASG - Guinean Socialist Alliance, FCG-SD - Guinean Civic Forum-Social Democracy, FD - Democratic Front, FDS - Democratic Social Front, FLING - Front for the Liberation and Independence of Guinea, LIPE - Guinean League for Ecological Protection, MDG - Guinean Democratic Movement, MUDE - Movement for Unity and Democracy, PAIGC - African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (far-left, socialist), PCD - Democratic Convergence Party, PDP - Democratic Party for Progress, PDS - Democratic Socialist Party, PMP - Manifest Party of the People, PP - Popular Party, PPG - Guinean People’s Party, PRD - Renewal and Development Party, PRP - Progress and Renewal Party, PRS - Social Renewal Party (center-left), PSD - Social Democratic Party, PS-GB - Socialist Party of Guinea-Bissau, PST - Solidarity and Labor Party, PT - Labor Party, PUN - National Unity Party, PUSD - United Social Democratic Party, RGB-MB - Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement, UM - Union for Change (center-left, progressive), UNDP - National Union for Democracy & Progress
Coalitions: Union for Change (UM) [Contested the 1994 Presidential and National People’s Assembly Election] Member parties include the Democratic Front (FD), Democratic Social Front (FDS), Guinean League for Ecological Protection (LIPE), Movement for Unity and Democracy (MUDE), Democratic Party for Progress (PDP), and the Renewal and Development Party (PRD). The coalition also contested the 1999 National People’s Assembly Election, but member parties are not available. The coalition appears to have contested the 2004 National People’s Assembly Election as a single party; United Platform (PLATAFORMA)* [Contested the 2004 National People’s Assembly Election] Member parties include the Democratic Front (FD), Democratic Social Front (FDS), Front for the Liberation and Independence of Guinea (FLING), Democratic Convergence Party (PCD), and the Solidarity and Labor Party (PST); United Popular Alliance (APU) [Contested the 2004 National People’s Assembly Election] Member parties include the Guinean People’s Party (PPG) and Guinean Socialist Alliance (ASG); Electoral Union (UE) [Contested the 2004 National People’s Assembly Election] Member parties include the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Guinean League for Ecological Protection (LIPE), Progress and Renewal Party (PRP), and an unidentified fourth party.
*The acronym PU is sometimes used when referring to the coalition.
 
Election Results
 
 
Presidential: 1994, 1999, 2005
Legislative
--Single Party: 1972, 1977, 1984, 1989
--Multiparty: 1994, 1999, 2004
 
 
Single Party Elections
Sole Legal Party: African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)

14 October 1972 Regional Council Election*

Registered Voters

83,000 (approx.)

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (N/A)

Invalid/Blank Votes

Not Available

Total Valid Votes

82,032

"Yes" Votes

79,680 (97.13%)

"No" Votes

  2,352 (02.87%)

1977 Regional Council Election**

31 March 1984 Regional Council Election**

15 June 1989 Regional Council Election** (150 Seats)

*In the midst of guerilla warfare, the PAIGC held elections for a regional council, which was to later elect a constituent assembly. In the areas under Portuguese control [Bissau, Bolama, Bijagós Islands and Bafatá] no elections are held.
**Elections were held for regional councils, which then elected members to the National People’s Assembly.
Note: Luís de Almeida Cabral was first elected President of the Council of State by the Constituent Assembly on 24 September 1973 when the PAIGC unilaterally declared independence from Portugal. The nation’s independence was formally recognized in 1974. He was re-elected President by the National People’s Assembly on 13 March 1977. Following the overthrow of the Cabral regime in 1980 and a four-year period of military rule, the National People’s Assembly elected João Bernardo Vieira President on 16 May 1984. He was re-elected on 19 June 1989.
 
July/August 1994 Presidential Election
First Round (03 July 1994)

Registered Voters

 400,000 (approx.)

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (89.3%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

Not Available

Total Valid Votes

 308,623
Second Round (07 August 1994) [Results by Region]

Registered Voters

 400,000 (approx.)

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (79.8%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

Not Available

Total Valid Votes

 307,448

Candidate (Party) [Coalition]

First Round

Second Round

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira (PAIGC)

142,577

46.20%

159,930

52.02%

Kumba Ialá (PRS)

67,518

21.88%

147,518

47.98%

Domingos Fernandes (RGB-MB)

53,825

17.44%

-

-

Carlos Gomes*

15,645

5.07%

-

-

François Mendy (FLING)

8,655

2.80%

-

-

Bubacar Rachid Djaló (LIPE) [UM]

8,506

2.76%

-

-

Victor Saúde Maria (PUSD)

6,388

2.07%

-

-

Antonieta Rosa Gomes (FCG-SD)

5,509

1.79%

-

-

*Carlos Gomes was an independent candidate supported by Democratic Convergence Party (PCD) whose leader, Victor Mandinga, was not eligible to run for President under the current election laws, which require that both parents of the candidate be Guineans born in the country.
 
03 July 1994 National People's Assembly Election

Registered Voters

400,000 (approx.)

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (88.9%)

Party/[Coalition]

Number of Seats (100)

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)

62

Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement (RGB-MB)

19

Social Renewal Party (PRS)

12

Union for Change [UM]

06

Front for the Liberation and Independence of Guinea (FLING)

01

 
28 November 1999 National People's Assembly Election

Registered Voters

Not Available

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (N/A)

Party

Number of Seats (102)

Social Renewal Party (PRS)

38

Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement (RGB-MB)

29

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)

24

Democratic Alliance (AD)

03

Union for Change (UM)

03

Social Democratic Party (PSD)

03

Democratic Social Front (FDS)

01

National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP)

01

 
November 1999/January 2000 Presidential Election
First Round (28 November 1999)

Registered Voters

 503,007

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (N/A)

Invalid/Blank Votes

Not Available

Total Valid Votes

 371,025
Second Round (16 January 2000)

Registered Voters

 503,007

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

361,609 (71.9%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

  12,746

Total Valid Votes

 348,863

Candidate (Party)

First Round

Second Round

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Kumba Ialá (PRS)

143,996

38.81%

251,193

72.0%

Malam Bacai Sanhá (PAIGC)

86,724

23.37%

97,670

28.0%

Faustino Fudut Imbali

30,484

8.22%

-

-

Fernando Gomes

26,049

7.02%

-

-

João Tátis Sá

24,117

6.50%

-

-

Abubacar Baldé (UNDP)

20,192

5.44%

-

-

Bubacar Rachid Djaló (LIPE)

12,026

3.24%

-

-

Joaquim Baldé (PSD)

8,623

2.32%

-

-

Salvador Tchongó (RGB-MB)

6,937

1.87%

-

-

José Catengul Mendes (FLING)

5,311

1.43%

-

-

Mamadú Uri Baldé (PRP)

3,580

0.96%

-

-

Antonieta Rosa Gomes (FCG-SD)

2,986

0.80%

-

-

 
28 March 2004 National People's Assembly Election [Results by Region]

Registered Voters

 603,639

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

460,254 (76.2%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

  31,317

Total Valid Votes

 428,937

Party/[Coalition]

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Seats (100)

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)

145,316

33.88%

45

Social Renewal Party (PRS)

113,656

26.50%

35

United Social Democratic Party (PUSD)

75,485

17.60%

17

United Platform [PLATAFORMA]

20,700

4.83%

-

Electoral Union [UE]

18,354

4.28%

02

Democratic Socialist Party (PDS)

8,789

2.05%

-

Union for Change (UM)

8,621

2.01%

-

Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement (RGB-MB)

7,918

1.85%

-

Party of National Unity (PUN)

6,260

1.46%

-

United Popular Alliance [APU]

5,817

1.36%

01

National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP)

5,042

1.18%

-

Guinean Civic Forum-Social Democracy (FCG-SD)

4,209

0.98%

-

Guinean Democratic Movement (MDG)

4,202

0.98%

-

Manifest Party of the People (PMP)

3,402

0.79%

-

Socialist Party of Guinea-Bissau (PS-GB)

1,166

0.27%

-

 
June/July 2005 Presidential Election
First Round (19 June 2005) [Results by Region]

Registered Voters

 538,471

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

471,843 (87.6%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

  25,350

Total Valid Votes

 446,493
Second Round (24 July 2005) [Results by Region]

Registered Voters

 538,472

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

422,978 (78.6%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

  10,052

Total Valid Votes

 412,926

Candidate (Party)

First Round

Second Round

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira

128,918

28.87%

216,167

 52.35%

Malam Bacai Sanhá (PAIGC)

158,276

35.45%

196,759

 47.65%

Kumba Ialá (PRS)

111,606

25.00%

-

-

Francisco Fadul (PUSD)

12,733

2.85%

-

-

Aregado Mantenque Té (PT)

9,000

2.02%

-

-

Mamadú Iaia Djaló

7,112

1.59%

-

-

Mário Lopes da Rosa

4,863

1.09%

-

-

Idrissa Djaló (PUN)

3,604

0.81%

-

-

Adelino Mano Queta

2,816

0.63%

-

-

Faustino Fudut Imbali (PMP)

2,330

0.52%

-

-

Paulino Empossa Ié

2,215

0.50%

-

-

Antonieta Rosa Gomes (FCG-SD)

1,642

0.37%

-

-

João Tátis Sá (PPG)

1,378

0.31%

-

-