2011 Gambian presidential election

none January 2017 September 2020 2011 Gambian presidential election The Gambia presidential Popular no 2006 Gambian presidential election 2006 24 November 2011 2016 Gambian presidential election 2016 796,929 82.55% 130x130px Yahya Jammeh.jpg Yahya Jammeh Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction 470,550 71.5% Ousainou Darboe.png Ousainou Darboe United Democratic Party (The Gambia) 114,177 17.4% Aid for Trade Global Review 2017 – Day 1 (35035288884) (cropped).jpg Hamat Bah United Front c40000 73,060 11.1% Map of the 2011 Gambian presidential election.svg 400px President Yahya Jammeh Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction Yahya Jammeh Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction Presidential elections were held in the Gambia on 24 November 2011. Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh, in office since seizing power in a 1994 coup, faced Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party and Hamat Bah of the National Alliance for Democracy and Development.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15851706 BBC News Gambia: Ecowas observers boycott 'unfair poll' 23 November 2011 The elections were won by Jammeh, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-25/gambia-s-jammeh-wins-fourth-term-with-71-of-votes-cast-1-.html Gambia's Jammeh Wins Fourth Term With 71% of Votes Cast Bloomberg 26 November 2011 Emily Bowers Suwaibou Touray 25 November 2011 who received 72% of the vote on an 83% turnout.http://www.iec.gm/sites/default/files/pdfs/November_%2024th_%20Presidential_%20Results_2011_.pdf Independent Electoral Commission The Gambia Independent Electoral Commission 2011 26 November 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120113051819/http://iec.gm/sites/default/files/pdfs/November_%2024th_%20Presidential_%20Results_2011_.pdf 13 January 2012 Electoral system Voting took place using marbles dropped into coloured containers each containing a gong. Conduct The elections were monitored by the African Union who praised the process, https://www.voanews.com/a/african-union-observers-impressed-with-gambia-election--134467893/159238.html African Union Observers Impressed With Gambia Election VOA 2011 26 November 2011 European Union, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and Commonwealth. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) did not send any monitors because of "an unacceptable level of control of the electronic media by the party in power... and an opposition and electorate cowed by repression and intimidation". http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/11/2011112574417929393.html Gambia's Jammeh wins disputed elections Al Jazeera 2011 26 November 2011 Before the elections Jammeh had claimed "I will never compromise peace and stability at the altar of so-called democracy", http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/gambians-vote-in-election-condemned-by-regional-body-ecowas.html Gambians vote in election condemned as unfair Los Angeles Times 'I will never compromise peace and stability at the altar of so-called democracy,' 26 November 2011 24 November 2011 that "there is no way I can lose unless you tell me that all Gambian people are mad" and in response to press criticism said "The journalists are less than 1% of the population and if anybody expects me to allow less than 1% of the population to destroy 99% of the population, you are in the wrong place." On the election day Bah claimed that he had not heard of any intimidation of his supporters http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/-/688340/1278978/-/11kjbun/-/ Ecowas on the spot over Gambia election Monitor 2011 26 November 2011 although Darboe claimed the vote was fraudulent, rejected the result https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15897134 Gambia's Yahya Jammeh wins fourth presidential term BBC News 26 November 2011 25 November 2011http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/Homepage/tabid/36/mid/367/newsid367/7091/Gambia--Breaking-News-GAMBIAS-OPPOSITION-LEADER-REJECTS-POLL-RESULTS/Default.aspx Welcome to Freedom Newspaper Online Freedom 2011 26 November 2011 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20111127203052/http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/Homepage/tabid/36/mid/367/newsid367/7091/Gambia--Breaking-News-GAMBIAS-OPPOSITION-LEADER-REJECTS-POLL-RESULTS/Default.aspx 27 November 2011 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-11/26/c_122338427.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20161220105159/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-11/26/c_122338427.htm dead 20 December 2016 Jammeh re-elected president of the Republic of Gambia Xinhua News Agency 2011 26 November 2011 and complained of intimidation from the presence of military vehicles on the streets. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/gambia/8913150/Gambians-go-to-the-polls-with-marbles.html Gambians go to the polls with marbles Aislinn Laing The Daily Telegraph 24 November 2011 London 0307-1235 49632006 26 November 2011 The Independent Electoral Commission also said there was no intimidation https://www.voanews.com/a/early-results-show-gambian-president-in-the-lead-134490253/148716.html Gambian President Wins Re-Election VOA 2011 26 November 2011 and that "it is impossible to rig elections in Gambia". There was also criticism of the election organisation as many voters went to the wrong polling station. Results Yahya Jammeh Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction 470550 Ousainou Darboe United Democratic Party 114177 Hamat Bah United Front 73060 #c40000 117 796929 IEC References Category:Presidential elections in the Gambia Gambia Presidential election Gambia