Elections in Somaliland

Somaliland elects on national level a head of state (the president) and a legislature. The president is elected by the people for a five-year term. The Parliament (Baarlamaanka) has two chambers. The House of Representatives (Golaha Wakiilada) will have 82 members, elected for a five-year term. The House of Elders (Golaha Guurtida) will have 82 members, representing traditional leaders. Somaliland has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Waddani	258,658	37.22	31	New
	Kulmiye Peace, Unity, and Development Party	256,524	36.91	30	+2
	Justice and Welfare Party	179,735	25.86	21	0
Total		694,917	100.00	82	0

Registered voters/turnout		1,065,847	–
Source: EC, Reuters, EC^[usurped]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Kulmiye Peace, Unity, and Development Party	268,815	38.99	93	−6
	Waddani	260,841	37.83	79	+11
	Justice and Welfare Party	159,801	23.18	48	+8
Total		689,457	100.00	220	–

Registered voters/turnout		1,065,847	–
Source: SLNEC

Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%
	Muse Bihi Abdi	Abdirahman Saylici	Peace, Unity, and Development Party	305,909	55.10
	Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi	Mohamed Ali	Waddani	226,092	40.73
	Faysal Ali Warabe	Abdi Ahmed Musa Abyan	For Justice and Development	23,141	4.17
Total				555,142	100.00

Valid votes				555,142	98.15
Invalid/blank votes				10,475	1.85
Total votes				565,617	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				704,198	80.32
Source: SLNEC

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	KULMIYE	244,795	30.19	99
	Waddani	163,789	20.20	68
	UCID	105,105	12.96	40
	Umadda	94,689	11.68	37
	Rays	83,596	10.31	32
	Xaqsoor	74,204	9.15	31
	Dalsan	44,680	5.51	16
Total		810,858	100.00	323

Source: https://media.africaportal.org/documents/Report-website-version.pdf

Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%
	Ahmed Mahamoud Silanyo	Abdirahman Saylici	Peace, Unity, and Development Party	266,906	49.59
	Dahir Riyale Kahin	Ahmed Yusuf Yasin	United Peoples' Democratic Party	178,881	33.23
	Faysal Ali Warabe	Mohammad Rashid	For Justice and Development	92,459	17.18
Total				538,246	100.00

Total votes				538,246	–
Registered voters/turnout				1,069,914	50.31
Source: NEC, African Elections Database

Latest elections

Choice	Votes	%
For	1,148,940	97.10
Against	34,302	2.90
Invalid/blank votes	4,591	–
Total	1,187,833	100
Registered voters/turnout	1,188,746	99.92
Source: African Elections Database