Maldivian parliamentary election, 2014

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All 85 seats in the People's Majlis
43 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Mohamed Nasheed	Qasim Ibrahim
Party	PPM	MDP	JP
Leader since	2011	2009	2008
Last election	–	26 seats, 30.8%	1 seat, 4.2%
Seats won	33	26	15
Seat change	New		14
Percentage	38.8%	30.6%	17.6%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Ahmed Shiyam Mohamad	Sheik Imran Abdulla
Party	MDA	AP
Leader since	2012	2005
Last election	–	0 seats, 0.9%
Seats won	5	1
Seat change	New	1
Percentage	5.9%	1.2%

Speaker of the People's Majlis before election

Abdulla Shahid
MDP

Speaker of People's Majlis

Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed, PPM

Abdulla Shahid
MDP

Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed, PPM

Parliamentary elections were held in the Maldives on 22 March 2014. The Progressive Party of Maldives and its allies won 53 seats.

The elections were held after the controversial presidential elections in which Abdulla Yameen defeated Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldivian Democratic Party. Following the elections the Supreme Court dismissed the Chairman and Deputy Chairmain of the Election Commission for contempt of court. The MDP protested, but did not boycott the parliamentary elections.

One the day before the elections Qasim Ibrahim of the Jumhooree Party requested that the Supreme Court to delay the elections due to the Election Commission not having a full complement of members. However, his request was rejected.

The 85 seats in the People's Majlis were elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system. The Majlis was expanded from 77 to 85 seats.

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