2022 Senegalese parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Senegal by July 2022.[1]

2022 Senegalese parliamentary election

July 2022

All 165 seats in the National Assembly
83 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Macky Sall Abdoulaye Wade Khalifa Sall
Alliance BBY MWS MTS
Last election 49.47%, 125 seats 16.68%, 19 seats 11.73%, 7 seats

President of the National Assembly before election

Moustapha Niasse
AFP

Elected President of the National Assembly

TBD

Electoral system

The 165 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods; 90 are elected by either first-past-the-post or party bloc vote in 35 single- or multi-member constituencies based on the 35 departments, with an additional 15 elected by overseas voters.[2] The other 60 seats are elected from a nationwide constituency by proportional representation, with seats allocated initially using the simple quotient, with remaining seats allocated using the largest remainder method.[3]

References

  1. "IElections: Senegal National Assembly 2022". www.electionguide.org. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  2. "Sénégal : les électeurs dans l’attente des résultats des législatives", Jeune Afrique, 31 July 2017 (in French)
  3. "Senegal Assemblée nationale (National Assembly)". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
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