{"iso":"AO","name":"Angola","flag":"\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf4","vote":"National Assembly \u00b7 seat projection","model":"seat","updated":"2022-08-24","source":"2022 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the party vote at the general election of 24 August 2022, official results as published by the National Electoral Commission. The count was disputed by the opposition UNITA in the closest election since independence, and the MPLA has never lost power since 1975. Parties below one percent are not shown.","shares":{"MPLA":51.2,"UNITA":43.9,"PRS":1.1,"FNLA":1.1,"PHA":1.0},"polls":[],"parties":{"MPLA":{"name":"Movimento Popular de Liberta\u00e7\u00e3o de Angola","color":"#C8102E","name_en":"People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola"},"UNITA":{"name":"Uni\u00e3o Nacional para a Independ\u00eancia Total de Angola","color":"#1B7A3D","name_en":"National Union for the Total Independence of Angola"},"PRS":{"name":"Partido de Renova\u00e7\u00e3o Social","color":"#F1C40F","name_en":"Social Renewal Party"},"FNLA":{"name":"Frente Nacional de Liberta\u00e7\u00e3o de Angola","color":"#E67E22","name_en":"National Liberation Front of Angola"},"PHA":{"name":"Partido Humanista de Angola","color":"#8E44AD","name_en":"Humanist Party of Angola"}},"seats":{"MPLA":115,"UNITA":99,"PRS":2,"FNLA":2,"PHA":2},"seat_meta":{"total":220,"majority":111,"method":"dhondt","threshold":0.0,"chamber":"National Assembly","note":"Real system is closed-list PR (130 national + 90 provincial seats) allocated by D'Hondt with no legal threshold; approximated as one national D'Hondt pool.","largest":"MPLA"},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o (MPLA)","legislature":"National Assembly, unicameral, 220 members serving five-year terms.","electoral_system":"Members are elected by closed-list proportional representation, and the head of the winning list becomes president.","government_now":"The MPLA governs with 124 of 220 seats after the 2022 election, in which UNITA came within eight points amid fraud allegations.","context":"Louren\u00e7o is term-limited in 2027, making the succession within the ruling party the central question ahead of the general election due that year. Africa's second-largest oil producer is courting Western investment through the Lobito rail corridor.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"MPLA":["Movimento Popular de Liberta\u00e7\u00e3o de Angola","People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola","Former Marxist liberation movement, now a big-tent dominant party; has governed continuously since independence in 1975, currently under President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o."],"UNITA":["Uni\u00e3o Nacional para a Independ\u00eancia Total de Angola","National Union for the Total Independence of Angola","Former rebel movement turned main opposition, now liberal-conservative; came within eight points of the MPLA in 2022 under Adalberto Costa J\u00fanior."],"PRS":["Partido de Renova\u00e7\u00e3o Social","Social Renewal Party","Small opposition party with a regional base in the Lunda provinces; holds two seats."],"FNLA":["Frente Nacional de Liberta\u00e7\u00e3o de Angola","National Liberation Front of Angola","Historic anti-colonial liberation movement, now a marginal opposition party with two seats."],"PHA":["Partido Humanista de Angola","Humanist Party of Angola","New small liberal/humanist party that first won seats in 2022; holds two seats."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2022 election","total":220,"seats":{"MPLA":124,"UNITA":90,"PRS":2,"FNLA":2,"PHA":2}},"region_winners":{"Cabinda":"UNITA","Cuando Cubango":"MPLA","Moxico":"MPLA","Namibe":"MPLA","Cunene":"MPLA","Zaire":"UNITA","U\u00edge":"MPLA","Lunda Norte":"MPLA","Malanje":"MPLA","Lunda Sul":"MPLA","Cuanza Sul":"MPLA","Benguela":"MPLA","Bengo":"MPLA","Luanda":"UNITA","Bi\u00e9":"MPLA","Cuanza Norte":"MPLA","Hu\u00edla":"MPLA","Huambo":"MPLA"},"region_meta":{"election":"2022 Angolan general election (24 August 2022), provincial vote","source":"National Electoral Commission of Angola (CNE), official results by province","note":"Each province shaded by the party with the most votes in its provincial circle; the MPLA led fifteen provinces while UNITA led Luanda, Cabinda and Zaire in the closest election since independence."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2027-08","title":"Angolan general election (due by August)","chamber":"National Assembly","type":"expected"}}