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The Gambia Detailed Election Results
 
 

Political Parties: APRC - Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, GPDP - Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress, NDAM - National Democratic Action Movement, NRP - National Reconciliation Party, PDOIS - People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism, UDP - United Democratic Party.

Coalitions: Alliance for Regime Change (ARC) Member parties include the United Democratic Party (UDP), National Reconciliation Party (NRP), and the Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress (GPDP); National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD) Member parties include the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) and the National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM).

 

26 SEPTEMBER 1996 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Administrative Area

Candidate (Party)

Total Valid Votes

Invalid Votes

Total Votes

Registered Voters

Voter Turnout

Yahya Jammeh (APRC)

Ousainou Darboe (UDP)

Hamat
Bah
(NRP)

Sidia
Jatta
(PDOIS)

Banjul

9,140 (61.84%)

5,017 (33.95%)

238 (1.61%)

384 (2.60%)

14,779

-

14,779

16,390

90.2%

Basse

32,499 (53.92%)

18,738 (31.09%)

4,959 (8.23%)

4,074 (6.76%)

60,270

-

60,270

70,301

85.7%

Brikama

60,382 (65.09%)

27,351 (29.49%)

3,257 (3.51%)

1,745 (1.88%)

92,735

26

92,761

101,036

91.8%

Janjanbureh

36,671 (54.24%)

22,053 (32.62%)

7,088 (10.48%)

1,796 (2.66%)

67,608

-

67,608

77,369

87.4%

Kanifing

40,443 (56.02%)

28,318 (39.23%)

1,507 (2.09%)

1,923 (2.66%)

72,191

-

72,191

83,839

86.1%

Kerewan

31,846 (53.69%)

23,257 (39.21%)

3,221 (5.43%)

985 (1.66%)

59,309

07

59,316

66,119

89.7%

Mansakonko

9,030 (32.70%)

16,653 (60.31%)

1,489 (5.39%)

430 (1.56%)

27,602

10

27,612

31,487

87.7%

National Total

220,011 (55.77%)

141,387 (35.84%)

21,759 (5.52%)

11,337 (2.87%)

394,494

43

394,537

446,541

88.4%

 
 

22 SEPTEMBER 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Administrative Area

Candidate (Party) [Coalition]

National Total

Yahya Jammeh
(APRC)

Ousainou Darboe
(UDP) [ARC]

Halifa Sallah
(PDOIS) [NADD]

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Banjul

7,908

69.09%

2,739

23.93%

799

6.98%

11,446

Basse

36,009

61.79%

15,092

25.90%

7,180

12.31%

58,281

Brikama

77,831

74.38%

23,147

22.12%

3,655

3.49%

104,633

Janjanbureh

38,234

62.94%

19,527

32.15%

2,983

4.91%

60,744

Kanifing

47,490

63.75%

21,496

28.86%

5,503

7.39%

74,489

Kerewan

40,733

74.98%

10,833

19.94%

2,761

5.08%

54,327

Mansakonko

16,199

56.31%

11,974

41.63%

592

2.06%

28,765

Total Valid Votes

264,404

67.33%

104,808

26.69%

23,473

5.98%

392,685

Invalid Votes

 

N/A

Total Votes

N/A

Registered Voters

670,336

Voter Turnout

approx. 59%