2025 Sihanoukville Council election
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Elections were held in Sihanoukville, Cambodia on 26 January 2025, to decide the composition of the Sihanoukville city council. This is the first ever election for the newly formed Sihanoukville city council.[1][2]
The government cited the objective of higher accessibility of public services, ensuring security for citizens, tourists and investors and promoting development of the region as the main reason in creating this new council.[1]
The results were an expected landslide victory to the ruling Cambodian People's Party, where the newly formed opposition party, Nation Power Party was successful in meeting the threshold for a council seat.[3]
Electoral dystem
The party with a simple plurality of votes is given the role of Council He'd, regardless of whether they achieve an absolute majority in obtaining votes or seats. Where in addition to this, the composition of the council is decided using closed list proportional representation, under the d'Hondt method, which the number of council seats determined by the National Election Committee (NEC) was 13.[4]
As this is a city council election, there is no universal suffrage, as only councilors who were directly elected in 2022 will be eligible to vote, thus making this election indirect.[5]
Contesting parties
| Ballot Number[6] | Party | Party Leader | Leading Candidate[7] | Seats Contested | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khmer Will Party | Kong Molika | Samrit Sophat | 13 / 13 |
[8] | |
| 2 | Cambodian People's Party | Hun Sen | Soam Bien | 13 / 13 |
[8] | |
| 3 | FUNCINPEC | Norodom Chakravuth | Teav Sopha | 13 / 13 |
[8] | |
| 4 | Nation Power Party | Chea Mony | Aun Sarat | 13 / 13 |
[8] | |
Results
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| Party | Leading
Candidate |
Popular Vote | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Swing | Seats Won | Seat Change | |||
| Cambodian People's Party | Samrit Sophat | 28 | 90.32% | New | 12 | New | |
| Nation Power Party | Soam Bien | 3 | 9.68% | New | 1 | New | |
| FUNCINPEC | Teav Sopha | 0 | 0% | New | 0 | New | |
| Khmer Will Party | Aun Sarat | 0 | 0% | New | 0 | New | |
| Total | 31 | 100% | 13 | ||||
| Valid votes | 31 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 0 | ||||||
| Total votes | 31 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 31 (100%) | ||||||
| Source: National Election Committee | |||||||