Gambian parliamentary election, 2017

Gambian parliamentary election, 2017

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Party Leader % Seats ± UDP Ousainou Darboe 31 New APRC Fabakary Jatta 5 -38 NRP Samba Jallow 5 +4 GDC Mama Kandeh 5 New PDOIS Sidia Jatta 4 New PPP Yaya Ceesay 2 New Independent – 1 -3 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Majority Leader before Majority Leader after election Fabakary Jatta APRC Ousainou Darboe UDP

Parliamentary elections were held in the Gambia on 6 April 2017. They were first parliamentary elections since the inauguration of Adama Barrow as President and resulted in a landslide victory for the United Democratic Party, which won 31 of the 53 seats

The 53 members of the National Assembly were elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.

The European Union (EU) sent a European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to the Gambia in preparation for the parliamentary election on 13 March, at the invitation of the Independent Electoral Commission. The mission was formally launched on 22 March 2017 and it is led by the Chief Observer, Miroslav Poche, who is a Czech Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Initially, the mission consisted of six international election experts based in Banjul, and 14 long-term observers (LTOs) deployed across the Gambia. Closer to election day, the mission will deploy short-term observers and also a delegation of seven MEPs. In total, the EU EOM will comprise some 50 observers from the EU member states, as well as from Canada, Norway and Switzerland. On 3 April, the EU EOM deployed 14 short-term observers across the Gambia.