{"iso":"GA","name":"Gabon","flag":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde6","vote":"Presidential vote \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2025-04-12","source":"2025 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the presidential vote of 12 April 2025, official results as validated by the Constitutional Court. The 2023 coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema won against fragmented opponents after the strongest Bongo-era figures left the field, and his Democratic Union of Builders won the September 2025 parliamentary election. Candidates below one percent are aggregated as others.","shares":{"UDB":94.9,"EPG":3.1,"OTH":2.0},"polls":[],"parties":{"UDB":{"name":"Union D\u00e9mocratique des B\u00e2tisseurs","color":"#2E86C1","name_en":"Brice Oligui Nguema, Union of Builders"},"EPG":{"name":"Ensemble pour le Gabon","color":"#E67E22"},"OTH":{"name":"Other candidates","color":"#9a9a9a"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic restored after the 2023 coup","head_of_state":"President Brice Oligui Nguema. The 2024 constitution abolished the post of prime minister","legislature":"National Assembly of 145 members and a Senate.","electoral_system":"The president is directly elected by plurality for a seven-year term, renewable once under the 2024 constitution. Assembly members are elected in two rounds.","government_now":"General Oligui Nguema, who toppled Ali Bongo in August 2023 and ended 56 years of Bongo family rule, won the April 2025 election with an official landslide.","context":"A new constitution introduced a seven-year renewable-once presidency and scrapped the prime ministership. The oil-dependent state is under pressure to diversify as reserves decline, and the next presidential vote is due in 2032.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"UDB":["Union D\u00e9mocratique des B\u00e2tisseurs","Democratic Union of Builders","Party backing President Brice Oligui Nguema, the general who led the 2023 coup; the dominant ruling party, it won about 102 of 145 Assembly seats in 2025."],"EPG":["Ensemble pour le Gabon","Together for Gabon","Party of Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze, the former prime minister and main challenger to Oligui in the 2025 presidential vote; an opposition force that won no Assembly seats."],"OTH":["Other candidates","","All other parties and independents, including the once-dominant Bongo-era Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), which together hold the remaining seats."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2025 election","total":145,"seats":{"UDB":102,"OTH":43,"EPG":0}},"has_geo":true,"geo_meta":{"kind":"admin1","source":"Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states/provinces (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Region set and any internationally-disputed territories follow the Natural Earth source dataset. Far overseas/outlying territories may fall outside the primary map frame."},"next_election":{"date":"2032","title":"Gabonese presidential election","chamber":"President","type":"expected"}}