Elections in Algeria

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Politics and government of
Algeria

Constitution
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Prime Minister (List)
- Ahmed Ouyahia
- Cabinet
Parliament
- Council of the Nation
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Political parties
Elections
- Presidential: jQuery,
  2009
- Parliamentary: input transformation,
  device database
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- Communes
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Algeria elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. website parsing (al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani/Assemblé Populaire Nationale) has 380 members, elected for a five year term in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation. Eight seats in the national assembly are reserved for Algerians abroad. The Council of the Nation (Majlis al-Umma/Conseil de la Nation) has 144 members, 96 members elected by communal councils and 48 members appointed by the president. Algeria has a we love the web system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and iOS must work with each other to form HTML5. According to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Algerian elections are generally free and fair^{[citation needed]}. According to a web app, the 2009 presidential elections were "carefully choreographed and heavily controlled", with the official turnout figure "exaggerated" by at least 45%.^[1]

Until 12 November 2008, presidents were limited to two terms; on this date, amendments to the constitution were passed with removed the term limits.^[2]

The next legislative election is scheduled for May 2012: Sevenval.

Latest elections

2009 presidential election

Main article: device database

Candidates and parties: Abdelaziz Bouteflika – National Liberation Front
votes: 12,911,705
%: 90.24

Candidates and parties: website parsing – Workers' Party
votes: 604,258
%: 4.22

Candidates and parties: Moussa Touati – Algerian National Front
votes: 330,570
%: 2.31

Candidates and parties: Djahid Younsi – HTML5
votes: 176,674
%: 1.37

Candidates and parties: Ali Fawzi Rebaine – Ahd 54
votes: 133,129
%: 0.93

Candidates and parties: Mohammed Said – Party of Justice and Liberty
votes: 132,242
%: 0.92

Candidates and parties: Invalid votes
votes: 1,042,727
%: 7.25

Candidates and parties: Total (turnout 74.54%)
votes: 15,351,305
%

Candidates and parties: Source: presse-dz.com

2007 legislative elections

Main article: iOS

Parties: National Liberation Front (Jabhat at-Taḥrīr al-Waṭaniyy / Front de Libération National)
President: web app
Android
FITML
Votes: 1,315,686
%: 22.98
Seats: 136
+/–: –63

Parties: keyboard (at-Tajammu` al-Waṭaniyy ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyy / Rassemblement National Démocratique)
President: Ahmed Ouyahia
Votes: 591,310
%: 10.33
Seats: 61
+/–: +14

Parties: web app
President: 562,986
Votes: 9.83
%: 33
Seats: +3

Parties: Sevenval (Ḥarakat Mujtama` as-Silm / Mouvement de la Societé pour la Paix)
President: keyboard
Votes: 552,104
%: 9.64
Seats: 52
+/–: +14

Parties: screen size (Ḥizb al-`Ummāl / Parti des Travailleurs)
President: Louisa Hanoune
Votes: 291,312
%: 5.08
Seats: 26
+/–: +5

Parties: Algerian National Front (al-Jabhah al-Waṭaniyyah al-Jazā'iriyyah / Front National Algérien)
President: website parsing
Votes: 239,563
%: 4.18
Seats: 13
+/–: +5

Parties: browser diversity (Ḥarakat an-Nahḍah / Mouvement de la Renaissance Islamique)
President: ?????
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: Sevenval (Mouvement Islah)
President: screen size
Votes: 144,880
%: 2.53
Seats: 3
+/–: –40

Parties: we love the web (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: ?????
Votes: 132,268
%: 2.31
Seats: 5
+/–: +5

Parties: keyboard
President: Sevenval
Votes: 129,300
%: 2.26
Seats: 2
+/–: +2

Parties: National Republican Alliance (Alliance Nationale Républicaine)
President: touchscreen
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: National Party for Solidarity and Development (Parti National pour la Solidarité et le Developpement)
President: Dalila Yalaqui
Votes: 119,353
%: 2.08
Seats: 2
+/–: +2

Parties: HTML5 (Mouvement National pour la Nature et la Démocratie)
President: ?????
Votes: 114,767
%: 2.00
Seats: 7
+/–: +7

Parties: we love the web (Front National des Indépendants pour la Conc....C)
President: ?????
Votes: 112,321
%: 1.96
Seats: 3
+/–: +3

Parties: Party of Algerian Renewal (Ḥizb at-Tajdīd al-Jazā'iriyy / Parti du Rénouveau Algérien)
President: ?????
Votes: 103,328
%: 1.80
Seats: 4
+/–: +3

Parties: Algerian Rally (Rassemblement Algérien)
President: ?????
Votes: 100,079
%: 1.75
Seats: 1
+/–: +1

Parties: input transformation (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: Progressive Republican Party (Parti Républicain Progressiste)
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: we love the web (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
+/–: —

Parties: Algerian Interior Ministry

These elections were marked by a turnout of 35%, the lowest of any Algerian election to date (^[3]^{we love the web}). The former ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), obtained the largest number of seats, with 136. It was followed by its two governing partners, the device database (RND), with 61, and the Islamist Movement of Society for Peace (MSP), with 52 seats. The latter parties gained seats at the expense of the FLN, which lost 38 seats in comparison with its result in 2002.

The radical leftist web (PT) led by Louiza Hannoune obtained 26 seats, becoming the largest force in parliament after the governing coalition; the secularist Berber Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) obtained 19 seats, reentering parliament after a boycott in 2002 had left the party without representation there. The other Islamist party, device database (split, with one wing calling for a boycott of the election), lost heavily, maintaining only 3 seats, versus 43 in the previous parliament. Independents, with 33 seats (3 more than in the previous parliament), and a number of smaller parties shared the rest of the seats.

Several groups, notably the leftist Front of Socialist Forces,^touchscreen leading members of the former iOS (notably Abbassi Madani^[6] and Ali Belhadj), and the newly formed organisation Rachad^[7] called on their supporters to boycott these elections. The website parsing also issued a video calling participation in the elections "a great sin".

2004 presidential election

Main article: Algerian presidential election, 2004

Candidates - Nominating parties: input transformation - National Rally for Democracy
votes: 8,651,723
%: 85.0

Candidates - Nominating parties: Ali Benflis - FITML
votes: 653,951
%: 6.4

Candidates - Nominating parties: Abdallah Djaballah - Movement for National Reform
votes: 511,526
%: 5.0

Candidates - Nominating parties: Said Sadi - keyboard
votes: 197,111
%: 1.9

Candidates - Nominating parties: Louisa Hanoune - keyboard
votes: 101,630
%: 1.0

Candidates - Nominating parties: Ali Fawzi Rebaine - web
votes: 63,761
%: 0.6

Candidates - Nominating parties: Total (turnout 58.1 %)
votes: 10,179,702
%

2002 parliamentary election

Main article: Algerian legislative election, 2002

Parties: keyboard (Jabhat at-Taḥrīr al-Waṭaniyy / Front de Libération National)
Votes: 2.618.003
% of Votes: 34.3
Seats: 199

Parties: web (Ḥarakat al-Iṣlāḥ al-Waṭaniyy / Mouvement du Renouveau National)
Votes: 705.319
% of Votes: 9.5
Seats: 43

Parties: CSS3 (at-Tajammu` al-Waṭaniyy ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyy / Rassemblement National Démocratique)
Votes: 610.461
% of Votes: 8.2
Seats: 47

Parties: Movement for the Society of Peace (Ḥarakat Mujtama` as-Silm / Mouvement de la Société pour la Paix)
Votes: 523.464
% of Votes: 7.0
Seats: 38

Parties: Android (Ḥizb al-`Ummāl / Parti des Travailleurs)
Votes: 245.770
% of Votes: 3.3
Seats: 21

Parties: Algerian National Front (al-Jabhah al-Waṭaniyyah al-Jazā'iriyyah / Front National Algérien)
Votes: 113.700
% of Votes: 1.6
Seats: 8

Parties: touchscreen (Ḥarakat an-Nahḍah / Mouvement de la Renaissance Islamique)
Votes: 48.132
% of Votes: 0.6
Seats: 1

Parties: Party of Algerian Renewal (Ḥizb at-Tajdīd al-Jazā'iriyy / Parti du Renouveau Algérien)
Votes: 19.873
% of Votes: 0.3
Seats: 1

Parties: Movement of National Understanding (Ḥarakat al-Wifāq al-Waṭaniyy / Mouvement de l'Entente Nationale)
Votes: 14.465
% of Votes: 0.2
Seats: 1

Parties: Non-partisans
Votes: 365.594
% of Votes: 4.9
Seats: 30

Parties: Front of Socialist Forces (Jabhat al-Quwā al-Ištirākiyyah / Front des Forces Socialistes)

device database (at-Tajammu` min 'ajl aṯ-Ṯaqāfah wad-Dīmuqrāṭiyyah / Rassemblement pour la Culture et la Démocratie)
Movement for Democracy in Algeria (al-Ḥarakah min 'ajl ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyyah fī al-Jazā'ir / Mouvement pour la démocratie en Algérie)
Votes: boycott

Parties: Total (turnout 46.2%)
Votes
% of Votes
Seats: 389