Algerian legislative election, 1997

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5 June 1997

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All 231 seats to the People's National Assembly
116 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Liamine Zéroual	Mahfoud Nahnah	Boualem Benhamouda
Party	RND	MSP	FLN
Last election	-	0	15
Seats won	156	69	62
Seat change	156	69	47
Popular vote	3,533,434	1,553,154	1,497,285
Percentage	33.7%	14.8%	14.3%
Swing	33.7%	9.4%	9.1%

Prime Minister before election

Ahmed Ouyahia
RND

Elected Prime Minister

Ahmed Ouyahia
RND

Parliamentary elections were held in Algeria on 5 June 1997. The result was a victory for the National Rally for Democracy (RND), a new party created in early 1997 for President Zéroual's supporters, which won 156 out of 380 seats. They were followed by the Movement of Society for Peace (as Hamas had been required to rename itself) with 69 seats, the FLN (62), and the Islamist Ennahda (34). The two Berberist parties, FFS and RCD, got 20 and 19 seats respectively. Views on this election were mixed; most major opposition parties filed complaints, and the success of the extremely new RND raised eyebrows. The RND, FLN, and MSP formed a coalition government, with the RND's Ahmed Ouyahia as prime minister.

Voter turnout was 65.6%.

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