Cape Verdean parliamentary election, 2016

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20 March 2016

Registered

347,622

Turnout

65.97%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ulisses Correia e Silva	Janira Hopffer Almada	João dos Santos Luís
Party	Movement for Democracy	PAICV	Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union
Leader's seat	Santiago Sul	Santiago Sul	São Vicente
Last election	32 seats	36 seats	2 seats
Seats won	40 seats	29 seats	3 seats
Seat change	8	9	1
Popular vote	122,881	86,078	15,488
Percentage	54.48%	38.16%	6.87%

Prime Minister before election

José Maria Neves
PAICV

Elected Prime Minister

Ulisses Correia e Silva
Movement for Democracy

Parliamentary elections were held in Cape Verde on 20 March 2016. The ruling African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), led by Janira Hopffer Almada, was defeated by the Movement for Democracy (MpD), led by Ulisses Correia e Silva.

The 72 members of the National Assembly are elected from 16 multi-member constituencies ranging in size from 2 to 15 seats. The elections are held using closed list proportional representation, with seats allocated using the d'Hondt method.

A total of 551 candidates ran for election, including 73 women.