{"iso":"MR","name":"Mauritania","flag":"\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf7","vote":"Presidential vote \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2024-06-29","source":"2024 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the presidential vote of 29 June 2024, official results as published by the electoral commission CENI. Elections have grown more orderly and 2019 brought the first peaceful transfer between elected presidents, though opposition candidates alleged irregularities in the count.","shares":{"INSAF":56.1,"RAG":22.1,"TAW":12.8,"HOPE":3.6,"AJD":2.4,"IND":2.1},"polls":[],"parties":{"INSAF":{"name":"\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0646\u0635\u0627\u0641 (El Insaf)","color":"#2E86C1","name_en":"El Insaf, Equity Party"},"RAG":{"name":"RAG / Sawab-RAG","color":"#C8102E","name_en":"Biram Dah Abeid, Refoundation for a Global Action"},"TAW":{"name":"\u062a\u0648\u0627\u0635\u0644 (Tawassoul)","color":"#1B7A3D","name_en":"National Rally for Reform and Development, Tawassoul"},"HOPE":{"name":"Espoir Mauritanie","color":"#F1C40F","name_en":"Hope Mauritania"},"AJD":{"name":"AJD/MR","color":"#8E44AD","name_en":"Alliance for Justice and Democracy"},"IND":{"name":"Outouma Soumar\u00e9 (ind\u00e9pendant)","color":"#9a9a9a","name_en":"Outouma Soumar\u00e9, independent"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic","head_of_state":"President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Mokhtar Ould Djay","legislature":"National Assembly, unicameral, 176 members.","electoral_system":"The president is directly elected in up to two rounds. Assembly members are elected by a mix of proportional and majority voting.","government_now":"Ghazouani was re-elected with 56 percent in June 2024, defeating anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid.","context":"Mauritania has become the Sahel's stability exception, avoiding the coups of its eastern neighbours while hosting large refugee flows from Mali. Rights groups continue to document descent-based slavery despite successive criminalisation laws.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"INSAF":["\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0646\u0635\u0627\u0641 (El Insaf)","Equity Party","Ruling party backing President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani; dominant with 107 of 176 seats."],"RAG":["RAG / Sawab-RAG","Refoundation for Global Action","Unrecognised party of anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid, contesting via the Sawab list; Ghazouani's main presidential challenger (22% in 2024), holds 5 seats as Sawab-RAG."],"TAW":["\u062a\u0648\u0627\u0635\u0644 (Tawassoul)","National Rally for Reform and Development","Moderate Islamist party, the largest formally recognised opposition party (11 seats)."],"HOPE":["Espoir Mauritanie","Hope Mauritania","FRUD-led leftist opposition coalition of anti-slavery and pan-African movements (7 seats)."],"AJD":["AJD/MR","Alliance for Justice and Democracy / Movement for Renewal","Party rooted in Afro-Mauritanian communities campaigning against ethnic discrimination and the legacy of slavery; small opposition (4 seats)."],"IND":["Outouma Soumar\u00e9 (ind\u00e9pendant)","Independent","Independent 2024 presidential candidate; not a parliamentary party (no seats)."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2023 election","total":176,"seats":{"INSAF":107,"TAW":11,"HOPE":7,"RAG":5,"AJD":4,"IND":0}},"region_winners":{"Tiris Zemmour":"INSAF","Adrar":"INSAF","Brakna":"INSAF","Trarza":"INSAF","Gorgol":"INSAF","Guidimaka":"INSAF","Hodh Ech Chargui":"INSAF","Hodh El Gharbi":"INSAF","Assaba":"INSAF","Inchiri":"INSAF","Tagant":"INSAF","Dakhlet Nouadhibou":"RAG"},"region_meta":{"election":"2024 Mauritanian presidential election (29 June 2024), first round","source":"CENI (National Independent Election Commission), official results as published","note":"Each region shaded by the first-round plurality winner. Incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (INSAF) led every region except Dakhlet Nouadhibou, taken by anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid (RAG). Nouakchott is left unshaded because the merged capital region split between the two candidates across its three sub-regions."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2029-06","title":"Mauritanian presidential election","chamber":"President","type":"expected"}}