Maldivian parliamentary election, 2014

22 March 2014

All 85 seats in the People's Majlis 43 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Mohamed Nasheed	Qasim Ibrahim
Party	PPM	MDP	JP
Leader since	2011	2009	2008
Last election	–	26 seats, 30.8%	1 seat, 4.2%
Seats won	33	26	15
Seat change	New		14
Percentage	38.8%	30.6%	17.6%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Ahmed Shiyam Mohamad	Sheik Imran Abdulla
Party	MDA	AP
Leader since	2012	2005
Last election	–	0 seats, 0.9%
Seats won	5	1
Seat change	New	1
Percentage	5.9%	1.2%

Speaker of the People's Majlis before election

Abdulla Shahid
MDP

Speaker of People's Majlis

Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed, PPM

Parliamentary elections were held in the Maldives on 22 March 2014.^[1] The Progressive Party of Maldives and its allies won 53 seats.

Background

The elections were held after the controversial presidential elections in which Abdulla Yameen defeated Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldivian Democratic Party. Following the elections the Supreme Court dismissed the Chairman and Deputy Chairmain of the Election Commission for contempt of court. The MDP protested, but did not boycott the parliamentary elections.

One the day before the elections Qasim Ibrahim of the Jumhooree Party requested that the Supreme Court to delay the elections due to the Election Commission not having a full complement of members. However, his request was rejected.

Electoral system

The 85 seats in the People's Majlis were elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system.^[2] The Majlis was expanded from 77 to 85 seats.

Results

Group	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Progressive Party of Maldives	51,424	27.72	33	New
Maldivian Democratic Party	75,670	40.78	26	0
Jumhooree Party	25,149	13.55	15	+14
Maldives Development Alliance	7,496	4.04	5	New
Adhaalath Party	4,941	2.65	1	+1
Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party	549	0.30	0	–28
Independents	20,276	10.93	5	–8
Invalid/blank votes	2,011	–	–	–
Total	187,516	100	85	+8
Registered voters/turnout	240,652	77.92	–	–
Source: IFES

References

Elections and referendums in the Maldives

Presidential elections	1952 1968 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013

Parliamentary elections	1975 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2005 2009 2014

Referendums	1952 1953 1959 1968 2007

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