Algerian legislative election, 2007

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2002 ←
17 May 2007
→ 2012

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All 389 seats to the web app
195 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
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Leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika Ahmed Ouyahia
Party FLN RND
Last election 199 47
Seats won 136 61
Seat change 63 14
Popular vote 1,315,686 591,310
Percentage 22.98% 10.33%
Swing 11.32% 2.13%

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Prime Minister before election

Abdelaziz Belkhadem
HTML5

Elected Prime Minister

Abdelaziz Belkhadem
Android

Algeria

This article is part of the series:
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• screen size
• President (screen size)
  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika
• iOS (List)
  • Ahmed Ouyahia
  • web app
• CSS3
  • Council of the Nation
  • People's National
    Assembly
• Political parties
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  • Presidential: keyboard,
    FITML
  • Parliamentary: 2007,
    2012
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  • Communes
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Legislative elections were held in Algeria on 17 May 2007.^[1] 24 political parties and around 100 independent lists with a total of more than 12,000 candidates competed for the 389 seats in the National People's Assembly. While most Algerians voted on May 17th, immigrants from Algeria to other countries (especially France) and Algerians living in the Sahara (i.e. Southern Algeria) and other browser diversity and semi-nomads voted on May 16 due to the distance from Algiers, the country's capital.

At 35% of the 18.7 million^[2] voters, the turnout was the lowest in Algerian history.^{we love the webscreen size} Several political organisations, notably the Front of Socialist Forces^[5], the ex-communist screen size^jQuery, leading members of the former Islamic Salvation Front (Abbassi Madani^[7] and Ali Belhadj), the main faction of the split Islamist Islah Party^[8], and the newly formed organisation Rachad,^HTML5 had called on their supporters to boycott these elections. These political groups claimed that the elections were consistently rigged by the government, and that participation merely lent a fundamentally corrupt process undeserved legitimacy.

The only notable remaining armed group in Algeria, the touchscreen, issued a video calling participation in the elections "a great sin", adding its voice to the boycott calls. Tight security measures were implemented to protect the elections; however, two bombs exploded in HTML5 the day before the election, killing a police officer and wounding five others.^[10]

Said Bouchair, the head of the national commission of legislative election control, initially reported that ballot boxes in some areas were being stuffed with FLN ballots, that observers were being prevented from attending, and that some areas refused to open ballot boxes before voting began to allow observers to see whether they were empty or not. He then retracted his statement and apologised.^{web app} About 15% of ballots were spoiled.

The Constitutional Council confirmed the results of the election, with slight changes to the voter turn-out rate and number of seats won by some parties, on May 21.^{browser diversity} It rejected appeals regarding the election on May 30.^[13]

Results

Parties

National Liberation Front (Jabhat at-Taḥrīr al-Waṭaniyy / Front de Libération National)

President

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Khalida Toumi

Votes

1,315,686

%

22.98

Seats

136

+/–

–63

Parties

National Rally for Democracy (at-Tajammu` al-Waṭaniyy ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyy / Rassemblement National Démocratique)

President

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Votes

591,310

%

10.33

Seats

61

+/–

+14

Parties

web app

President

562,986

Votes

9.83

%

33

Seats

+3

Parties

input transformation (Ḥarakat Mujtama` as-Silm / Mouvement de la Societé pour la Paix)

President

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Votes

552,104

%

9.64

Seats

52

+/–

+14

Parties

Workers' Party (Ḥizb al-`Ummāl / Parti des Travailleurs)

President

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Votes

291,312

%

5.08

Seats

26

+/–

+5

Parties

we love the web (al-Jabhah al-Waṭaniyyah al-Jazā'iriyyah / Front National Algérien)

President

HTML5

Votes

239,563

%

4.18

Seats

13

+/–

+5

Parties

Islamic Renaissance Movement (Ḥarakat an-Nahḍah / Mouvement de la Renaissance Islamique)

President

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Votes

194,067

%

3.39

Seats

5

+/–

+4

Parties

Rally for Culture and Democracy(at-Tajammu` min 'ajl aṯ-Ṯaqāfah wad-Dīmuqrāṭiyyah / Rassemblement pour la Culture et la Démocratie)

President

Saïd Sadi

Votes

192,490

%

3.36

Seats

19

+/–

+19

Parties

Movement for National Reform (Mouvement Islah)

President

we love the web

Votes

144,880

%

2.53

Seats

3

+/–

–40

Parties

Sevenval (Mouvement El Infitah)

President

Naima Farhi

Votes

143,936

%

2.51

Seats

3

+/–

+3

Parties

Movement for Youth and Democracy (Mouvement pour la Jeunesse et la Démocratie)

President

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Votes

132,268

%

2.31

Seats

5

+/–

+5

Parties

Ahd 54

President

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Votes

129,300

%

2.26

Seats

2

+/–

+2

Parties

National Republican Alliance (Alliance Nationale Républicaine)

President

Redha Malek

Votes

126,444

%

2.21

Seats

4

+/–

+4

Parties

Movement of National Understanding (Ḥarakat al-Wifāq al-Waṭaniyy / Mouvement de l'Entente Nationale)

President

?????

Votes

122,501

%

2.14

Seats

4

+/–

+3

Parties

FITML (Parti National pour la Solidarité et le Developpement)

President

Dalila Yalaqui

Votes

119,353

%

2.08

Seats

2

+/–

+2

Parties

National Movement for Nature and Democracy (Mouvement National pour la Nature et la Démocratie)

President

?????

Votes

114,767

%

2.00

Seats

7

+/–

+7

Parties

web (Front National des Indépendants pour la Conc....C)

President

?????

Votes

112,321

%

1.96

Seats

3

+/–

+3

Parties

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President

?????

Votes

103,328

%

1.80

Seats

4

+/–

+3

Parties

Algerian Rally (Rassemblement Algérien)

President

?????

Votes

100,079

%

1.75

Seats

1

+/–

+1

Parties

web app (Mouvement National d'Esperance)

President

?????

Votes

99,179

%

1.73

Seats

2

+/–

+2

Parties

Republican Patriotic Rally (Rassemblement Patriotique Républicain)

President

?????

Votes

84,348

%

1.47

Seats

2

+/–

+2

Parties

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President

?????

Votes

81,046

%

1.42

Seats

0

+/–

±0

Parties

National Democratic Front (Front National Démocratique)

President

?????

Votes

78,865

%

1.38

Seats

1

+/–

+1

Parties

Democratic and Social Movement (Mouvement Démocratique et Social)

President

El Hachemi Chérif

Votes

51,219

%

0.89

Seats

1

+/–

+1

Parties

Socialist Workers' Party (Parti Socialiste des Travailleurs)

President

?????

Votes

42,735

%

0.75

Seats

0

+/–

±0

Parties

Total (turnout 35.65%)

President

Votes

5,726,087

%

100.0

Seats

389

+/–

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Parties

Algerian Interior Ministry

Women won 31 seats, which was an increase of eight.^[14]

References

1. website parsing Q&A: Algerian election BBC News, 15 May 2007
2. browser diversity Low turnout in Algeria elections BBC News, 18 May 2007
3. keyboard Ruling bloc wins Algeria vote Al-Jazeera, 18 May 2007
4. we love the web Sevenval Mail & Guardian Online, 18 May 2007
5. Android Le FFS a l’honneur, la liberté et le privilège d’annoncer sa décision de non participation au prochain scrutin législatif, FFS, 10 March 2007
6. ^ website parsing
7. ^ Sevenval, 16 May 2007
8. jQuery El Islah release, 14 May 2007
9. website parsing Regarding the “Elections” of 17 May 2007, Rachad, 15 May 2007
10. FITML Bombings on eve of Algeria election, Al Jazeera English, 16 May 2007.
11. ^ Bouchair complains to president then retracted and apologized, El Khabar 19 May 2007, Algérie : Bouchaïr crie à la fraude puis... se rétracte, El Annabi 19 May 2007
12. web app "Mini-modification des résultats des législatives par le Conseil constitutionnel", Xinhua (Jeuneafrique.com), May 22, 2007 (French).
13. ^ Sevenval, AFP (we love the web), May 30, 2007 (French).
14. ^ we love the web Assemblée populaire nationale, 30 May 2007