A municipal councilor in Kani-Kéli from 1983 to 1989, he was elected general councilor in the canton of the same name in 2004, in a three-way race, obtaining 38.72% of the vote.[3]
After becoming departmental secretary of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), he broke ranks during the 2007 legislative elections, running against incumbent Mansour Kamardine and receiving only 4.08% of the vote in the first round.[4]
On March 20, 2008, he succeeded Saïd Omar Oili as president of the Mayotte General Council thanks to an alliance between the local UMP and the Mouvement départementaliste mahorais (MDM). These two movements joined forces against the New Impetus for Mayotte (NEMA) in order to quickly organize a referendum on the departmentalization of Mayotte.
In the 2011 cantonal elections, Ahmed Attoumani Douchina was easily re-elected as a general councilor, but several left-wing candidates narrowly won renewable cantons in Mayotte, leading to a change in the majority within the general council.[5] On April 3, 2011, three days after Mayotte became the 101st French department, Daniel Zaïdani was elected president of the general council, obtaining 10 votes to Ahmed Attoumani Douchina's 9.[6]
On November 15, 2012, he left the UMP to join the Union of Democrats and Independents.[7]
In March 2015, he was elected departmental councilor for the Canton of Bouéni alongside Afidati Mkadara.
