General Information
At stake in this election:
- 100 seats in the National People's Assembly (Assembleia Nacional Popular)
Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: Interim President Raimundo PEREIRA *
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Carlos GOMES Junior
- Assembly: Guinea-Bissau has a unicameral National People's Assembly (Assembleia Nacional Popular) with 102 seats.
* The electoral system is two-round.
Description of electoral system:
- The Interim President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
- In the National People's Assembly (Assembleia Nacional Popular) 102 members are elected by proportional representation to serve 4-year terms.***
*** Closed lists. 27 multi-member districts. An election is valid only if more than 50 percent of eligible voters in a constituency turn out.
Main parties in the electoral race:
- Party: African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde / Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC)
- Leader: Carlos GOMES Junior
- Seats won in last election: 45
- Seats won in this election: 67
- Party: Party for Social Renewal / Partido para a Renovaçao Social (PRS)
- Leader: Kumba YALA
- Seats won in last election: 35
- Seats won in this election: 28
- Party: United Social Democratic Party / Partido Unido Social Democrático (PUSD)***
- Leader: Francisco FADUL
- Seats won in last election: 17
- Seats won in this election: 0
- Party: Electoral Union / União Eleitoral (UE)
- Leader: N/A
- Seats won in last election: 2
- Seats won in this election: 0
- Party: United Popular Alliance / Aliança Popular Unida (APU)
- Leader: N/A
- Seats won in last election: 1
- Seats won in this election: 0
- Other Parties
- Republican Party for Independence and Development / Partido Republicano para Independência e Desenvolvimento (PRID)
- Seats won in this election: 3
- New Democracy Party / Partido da Nova Democracia (PND)
- Seats won in this election: 1
- Democratic Alliance / Aliança Democrático (AD)
- Seats won in this election: 1
- Republican Party for Independence and Development / Partido Republicano para Independência e Desenvolvimento (PRID)
*** 8 of the PUSD's 17 Deputies were expelled from the party in August 2004
Population and number of registered voters:
- Population: 1,561,293 (2008)
- Registered Voters: 593,739 (November 2008)
Gender Data:
· Female Population: 786,396 (2008)
· Is Guinea-Bissau a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980)
· Has Guinea-Bissau ratified CEDAW: Yes (23 August 1985)
· Gender Quota: No
· Female candidates in this election: Yes
· Number of Female Parliamentarians: 10 (following the 2008 elections)
· Human Development Index Position: 178 (2014)
· Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Medium (2014)
Disability Data:
· Is Guinea-Bissau a signatory to CRPD: Yes (24 September 2013)
· Has Guinea-Bissau ratified CRPD: Yes (24 September 2014)
· Population with a disability: 234,193 (est.)