Elections in Cape Verde

Elections in Cape Verde gives information on election and election results in Cape Verde. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.

Cape Verde elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The National Assembly (Portuguese: Assembleia Nacional) has 72 members, elected for a five-year term by proportional representation. Cape Verde has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.

Latest elections

2011 Parliamentary election

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde	117,967	52.68	38	–3
Movement for Democracy	94,674	42.27	32	+3
Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union	9,842	4.39	2	0
Labour and Solidarity Party	1,040	0.46	0	New
Social Democratic Party	429	0.19	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	2,990	–	–	–
Total	226,942	100	72	0
Registered voters/turnout	298,567	76.01	–	–
Source: African Elections Database

2011 Presidential election

 Summary of the 7 August and 21 August 2011 Cape Verdean presidential election results

Candidates (parties)	1^st round		2^nd round
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Jorge Carlos Fonseca (Movement for Democracy)	60,887	37.79%	97,735	54.26%
Manuel Inocêncio Sousa (African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde)	52,612	32.66%	82,379	45.74%
Aristides Lima (independent)	44,648	27.71%
Joaquim Jaime Monteiro (independent)	2,958	1.84%
Total (turnout 53.5%/59.9%)	161,105	100.00	180,114	100.00
Source: National Electoral Commission

Past elections

See also

• Cape Verdean local election, 2012
• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• African Elections Database