National Assembly (Senegal)

The National Assembly building in Dakar, Senegal

The National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale) is the lower house of the Parliament of Senegal.

The current National Assembly

The current National Assembly, formed following elections held on 1 July 2012, has a total of 150 elected members who serve five-year terms. The electoral system is a mixed member majoritarian (MMM) system. Ninety deputies are elected in 35 single and multi-member districts (departments) by simple majority (plurality) party block vote (PBV, winning party list takes all seats in the district). The remaining 60 seats are filled proportionally based on the national distribution of votes. Voters have a single ballot and vote for the party list. This single ballot is applied to both the majoritarian and proportional vote counts.

Main article: Senegalese parliamentary election, 2012

Party	Votes	%	Seats
United in Hope coalition	1,040,899	53.06	119
Senegalese Democratic Party	298,846	15.23	12
Bokk Gis Gis	143,180	7.30	4
Citizen Movement for National Reform	113,321	5.78	4
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 Convergence for Justice and Equity	20,762	1.06	1
Party for the Emergence of Citizens	20,671	1.05	1
Deggo Souxali Transport ak Commerce	18,859	0.96	1
Leeral Coalition	17,791	0.91	1
And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism	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
Rally of the Ecologists of Senegal	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
Allied Coalition of the People	6,717	0.34	0
Citizen Democracy	5,130	0.26	0
Invalid/blank votes	7,076	–	–
Total	1,968,852	100	150
Registered voters/turnout	5,368,783	36.67	–
Source: African Elections Database

^a The United in Hope coalition included the Alliance for the Republic.

Previous National Assembly election results

Political Party/Coalition	Election Year
	1963	1968(1)	1973(1)	1978	1983	1988	1993	1998
Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS) (note 2)	80	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Socialist Party of Senegal (PS)	-	80	100	83	111	103	84	93
Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS)	-	-	-	17	08	17	27	23
National Democratic Rally (RND)	-	-	-	-	01	-	-	01
Democratic League - Movement for the Labour Party (LD-MPT)	-	-	-	-	-	-	03	03
Let Us Unite Senegal (JLS) (note 3)	-	-	-	-	-	-	03	-
Party of Independence and Work (PIT)	-	-	-	-	-	-	02	01
Senegalese Democratic Union-Renewal (UDS-R)	-	-	-	-	-	-	01	01
Union for Democratic Renewal (URD)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11
And-Jëf-African Party for Democracy and Socialism (AJ-PADS)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	04
Convention of Democrats and Patriots-Garab Gi (CDP-Garab Gi)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubël (FSD-BJ)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Gaïndé Centrist Bloc (BGC)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Total	80	80	100	100	120	120	120	140

Notes

1. The Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS) was the Socialist Party's predecessor.
2. Senegal was a one-party state from 1966 to 1974. Only the Socialist Party fielded candidates in the 1968 and 1973 elections.
3. Let Us Unite Senegal (JLS) was a coalition of three political parties - the National Democratic Rally (RND), And Jëf-African Party for Democracy and Socialism (AJ-PADS), and Convention for Democrats and Patriots-Garab Gi (CDP-Garab Gi).

List of National Assembly Presidents

Main article: List of Presidents of the National Assembly of Senegal

See also

• History of Senegal
• Legislative branch
• Senate (Senegal)
• List of Presidents of the National Assembly of Senegal

External links

• Official website (French)