2024 Senegalese parliamentary election

On 12 September 2024, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the National Assembly and ordered snap elections for the chamber on 17 November. Faye, who took office on 2 April, and his prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, had previously been in conflict with the opposition-controlled legislature and accused the latter of blocking his proposed reforms and budget.^[2]

The 165 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods; 112 are elected by either first-past-the-post or party bloc vote in single- or multi-member constituencies based on the 46 departments (15 seats are elected by overseas diaspora voters).^[3] The other 53 seats are elected from a nationwide constituency by proportional representation, with seats allocated initially using the simple quotient, with remaining seats allocated using the largest remainder method.^[4]

Below is a list of the main parties and coalitions fielding lists in the election.

An "inter-coalition" was formed in some departments between Takku Wallu Sénégal, Sàmm Sa Kàddu and Jàmm ak Njariñ.^[5]

Several incidents of violence were reported during the election. On 28 October 2024, unidentified persons attacked the headquarters of an opposition party in Dakar and started a fire. On 30 October, Sonko and Faye's party PASTEF said that Sonko's convoy was pelted with stones during a campaign sortie in Koungheul, injuring former minister Malick Gakou, who is the concurrent leader of an allied party. In response, opposition MP Fanta Sall said that armed “strongmen” acting on behalf of PASTEF had attacked opposition activists.^[7][8] On 12 November, Sonko tweeted that attacks against PASTEF supporters would lead to them exercising a "legitimate right to respond", but later retracted his statement and urged calm in a speech later that day.^[9]

Polling began at 08:00 and ended at 18:00.^[10]

According to provisional results, PASTEF won in a large majority of polling stations,^[11] and were the most-voted for party in 40 of the 46 departments and seven of the eight diaspora constituencies.^[12] Following the announcement of the results, Amadou Ba and Barthélémy Dias, who led separate opposition coalitions, conceded defeat.^[13] Takku Wallu Sénégal leader and former president Macky Sall accused PASTEF of organising "massive fraud",^[14] but later conceded defeat.^[15] On 22 November the National Commission confirmed the official results, with PASTEF winning 130 of the 165 seats.^[16] This was the largest majority obtained by a single party in a legislative election in Senegal since 1988.^[17]

More information Party or alliance, Votes ...

Party or alliance		Votes	%	Seats
				National	Departmental	Total
	Patriots of Senegal	1,991,770	54.97	29	101	130
	Takku Wallu Sénégal	531,466	14.67	8	8	16
	Jàmm ak Njariñ	330,865	9.13	5	2	7
	Sàmm Sa Kàddu	222,060	6.13	3	0	3
	The March of the Territories / Andu Nawlé	47,636	1.31	1	1	2
	Farlu	28,303	0.78	1	0	1
	The Nationalists / Jël Linu Moom	26,876	0.74	1	0	1
	Kiraay ak Natangue	26,775	0.74	1	0	1
	Sénégaal Kese	25,822	0.71	1	0	1
	Sopi Senegal	22,991	0.63	1	0	1
	And Ci Koolutè Nguir Senegal	21,391	0.59	1	0	1
	And Beesal Sénégal	20,765	0.57	1	0	1
	Bës Du Ñakk	19,923	0.55	0	0	0
	And Liggey Sunu Rew	19,373	0.53	0	0	0
	And Suxali Production, Transport and Commerce	16,570	0.46	0	0	0
	And Liguey Sénégal ak Racine	16,521	0.46	0	0	0
	Together for Senegal	16,482	0.45	0	0	0
	Great Rally of Artisans of Senegal	16,448	0.45	0	0	0
	Dëkkal Teranga	16,446	0.45	0	0	0
	Jubanti Senegal	15,740	0.43	0	0	0
	Gox Yu Bess	15,510	0.43	0	0	0
	Reincarnation of Values / Naataange	14,736	0.41	0	0	0
	And Doolel Liguey Kat Yi	12,881	0.36	0	0	0
	Federation of Renewal	12,277	0.34	0	0	0
	Mankoo Liggeeyal Sénégal	11,733	0.32	0	0	0
	National Alliance for the Fatherland	11,535	0.32	0	0	0
	Nafoore Senegal	10,577	0.29	0	0	0
	Samm Sunu Rew – Jotali Kaddu Askanwi	10,171	0.28	0	0	0
	Actions	10,150	0.28	0	0	0
	Dundu Leneen	9,686	0.27	0	0	0
	Xaal Yoon	8,650	0.24	0	0	0
	National Union for Integration, Work and Equity	8,511	0.23	0	0	0
	Private Sector	7,415	0.20	0	0	0
	Union Naatall Kaaw-Gui	7,274	0.20	0	0	0
	GARAP-ADS [fr]	6,850	0.19	0	0	0
	Union of Patriotic Groups	6,467	0.18	0	0	0
	Wareef	5,868	0.16	0	0	0
	Bunt Bi	5,125	0.14	0	0	0
	Défar Sa Gokh	5,125	0.14	0	0	0
	Alliance Jëf Jël	5,045	0.14	0	0	0
	Sàmm Sa Gàfaka! Sàmm Sa Ëllëg!	3,824	0.11	0	0	0
Total		3,623,633	100.00	53	112	165
Valid votes		3,623,633	99.27
Invalid/blank votes		26,487	0.73
Total votes		3,650,120	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,371,891	49.51
Source: CENA

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