2021 Somaliland parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Somaliland in May 2021, alongside local district elections.[2]

2021 Somaliland parliamentary election

31 May 2021[1]

82 seats in the House of Representatives of Somaliland
42 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Muse Bihi Abdi Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Faysal Ali Warabe
Party Kulmiye Waddani UCID
Leader since 2015 2012 2001
Last election 28 seats, 34.1% 21 seats, 26.9%

The elections have been tentatively scheduled and postponed numerous times since the last parliamentary polls in 2005.[3] Most recently, the vote was scheduled for March, and then August, 2019, before the National Electoral Commission declared it could not be held that year.[4]

On 12 July 2020, Somaliland's three main political parties reached an agreement to hold parliamentary and local elections by the end of the year.[5][6] After several weeks of negotiations with the National Electoral Commission on the practicability of organizing elections in that time, a revised date of May 2021 was settled on.[7][8]

Electoral system

MPs are elected in six multi-member constituencies coterminous with the Regions of Somaliland, using open list proportional representation for a five-year term.

Somaliland party leaders agree on 2021 election terms

References


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