2012 Senegalese parliamentary election

none Senegal 2007 2017 1 July 2012 All 150 seats in the National Assembly 76 yes 36.67% United in Hope Macky Sall 53.06 119 Senegalese Democratic Party Abdoulaye Wade 15.23 12 Bokk Gis Gis 7.30 4 Bes Du Nakk 5.78 4 #FF8927 MRDS 3.60 2 Party for Truth and Development 2.47 2 Union for Democratic Renewal (Senegal) 1.12 1 MPS/FAXAS 1.11 1 CPJE 1.06 1 Tekki 2012 1.05 1 DSTC 0.96 1 Leeral Coalition 0.91 1 AJ/PADS 0.81 1 Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 1 July 2012 to elect the 150 members of the National Assembly. The result was a landslide victory for the United in Hope coalition supporting newly elected President Macky Sall, which won 119 of the 150 seats in the National Assembly.Senegal's President Macky Sall wins national assembly landslide BBC News, 5 July 2012 Voter turnout in the election was just 37%. Background Changes to the electoral law passed in 2010 included introducing mandatory gender parity, with 50% of candidates on party lists required to be women.https://archive.today/20130204134935/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/women-to-get-equal-shot-in-senegal-elections/527853 Women to get equal shot in Senegal elections Jakarta Globe 1 July 2012 Researchers Barrel Gueye and Selly Ba attributed the gender parity law to what they see as the third wave of Senegalese feminism.Q125142417 live A total of 24 lists were submitted for the election, with over 7,000 candidates, including Laurence Gavron, the first white woman to run for election to Parliament.A first white woman stands in Senegal's electionsMay 2018 InternetArchiveBot yes The Sun Daily, 1 July 2012 Of the 150 seats in the National Assembly, 60 were elected through proportional representation and 90 in constituencies. The election had originally been scheduled for 17 June 2012, but President Macky Sall announced a change of date after saying there was not enough time to prepare for it and that he had consulted the opposition Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) on the move.Technocrat to be Senegal’s new prime minister Al Jazeera, 3 April 2012 Results As a result of the new law on equal representation on party lists, 64 women were elected to the Assembly.Q125176572 live File:National Assembly (Senegal) diagram.svg National Departmental Total United in Hope 1040899 32 87 119 Senegalese Democratic Party 298846 9 3 12 Bokk Gis Gis 143180 4 0 4 Citizen Movement for National Reform/Bes Du Ñakk 113321 4 0 4 #FF8927 Republican Movement for Socialism and Democracy 70655 2 0 2 Party for Truth and Development 48553 2 0 2 Union for Democratic Renewal 21964 1 0 1 Senegalese Patriotic Movement/Faxas 21868 1 0 1 Patriotic Convergence for Justice and Equity 20762 1 0 1 Party for the Emergence of Citizens/Tekki 20671 1 0 1 Deggo Souxali Transport ak Commerce 18859 1 0 1 Leeral Coalition 17791 1 0 1 And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism 15889 1 0 1 Democratic Alliance 14841 0 0 0 And Taxawal Askan Wi Coalition 12922 0 0 0 Wallu Askan Senegal Coalition 12044 0 0 0 Rally of the Ecologists of Senegal 11783 0 0 0 Salam Coalition 10855 0 0 0 Authentic Socialist Party 9577 0 0 0 Lii Dal Na Xel coalition 9216 0 0 0 Taxawu Askan Wi Party 8107 0 0 0 Synergy for Progress and Democracy 7326 0 0 0 Allied Coalition of the People 6717 0 0 0 Citizen Democracy 5130 0 0 0 7076 5368783 Direction Générale des Élections The United in Hope coalition included the Alliance for the Republic.Diadie Ba Senegal's Sall seen winning parliament vote Reuters 1 July 2012 https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E8I11Q020120701?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061557/http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E8I11Q020120701?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 dead 4 March 2016 Aftermath The pro-Sall United in Hope coalition won an overwhelming majority of seats in the National Assembly, 119 out of 150, while the PDS saw its share of seats plummet to only 12. The remaining 19 seats were distributed amongst an assortment of small parties. On 30 July 2012, one of Sall's most prominent allies, Moustapha Niasse, was elected as President of the National Assembly; he defeated a PDS deputy, Oumar Sarr.https://archive.today/20130103095946/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gcvMSm2bN7WiOLCIWOWsnDIuWyRA?docId=CNG.8d8215748901d968ce3f470189179bef.21 "Senegal's Niasse elected parliament speaker", AFP, 31 July 2012. Niasse received 126 votes against 17 votes for Sarr; there were three blank votes.https://archive.today/20130418143339/http://www.aps.sn/articles.php?id_article=100460 "Moustapha Niasse élu président de l'Assemblée nationale", Agence de Presse Sénégalaise, 30 July 2012 fr. Eight vice-presidents were elected, including Awa Guèye as First Vice-President and Moustapha Cissé Lô as Second Vice-President."Les vice-présidents de l'Assemblée nationale élus" https://archive.today/20130418180032/http://www.aps.sn/articles.php?id_article=100468 2013-04-18 , Agence de Presse Sénégalaise, 30 July 2012 fr. None of the vice-president posts went to a deputy from the opposition, leading it to complain that the majority had excluded it and ignored parliamentary tradition. While the opposition Liberals and Democrats Parliamentary Group was too few in number to guarantee it one of the posts, the opposition nevertheless felt that it should have been given a post for reasons of tradition and "dignity"."Absence de l'opposition : Fada dénonce une entorse à la tradition parlementaire" https://web.archive.org/web/20140829141426/http://aps.sn/articles.php?id_article=100491 2014-08-29 , Agence de Presse Sénégalaise, 30 July 2012 fr. 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