{"iso":"RW","name":"Rwanda","flag":"\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfc","vote":"Chamber of Deputies \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2024-07-15","source":"2024 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the party vote at the Chamber of Deputies election of 15 July 2024, official results as published by the National Electoral Commission. The concurrent presidential vote gave Paul Kagame an official 99.18 percent, genuine challengers were barred, and the parties in parliament broadly align with the ruling RPF.","shares":{"RPF":68.8,"PL":8.7,"PSD":8.6,"PDI":4.6,"DGPR":4.6,"PSI":4.5},"polls":[],"parties":{"RPF":{"name":"Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR-Inkotanyi)","color":"#2E86C1","name_en":"Rwandan Patriotic Front coalition"},"PL":{"name":"Parti Lib\u00e9ral (PL)","color":"#F1C40F","name_en":"Liberal Party"},"PSD":{"name":"Parti Social D\u00e9mocrate (PSD)","color":"#C0392B","name_en":"Social Democratic Party"},"PDI":{"name":"Parti D\u00e9mocratique Id\u00e9al (PDI)","color":"#8E44AD","name_en":"Ideal Democratic Party"},"DGPR":{"name":"Parti D\u00e9mocratique Vert du Rwanda","color":"#27AE60","name_en":"Democratic Green Party of Rwanda"},"PSI":{"name":"Parti Social Imberakuri (PS-Imberakuri)","color":"#E67E22","name_en":"Social Party Imberakuri"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President Paul Kagame","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Justin Nsengiyumva","legislature":"Chamber of Deputies, 80 members including reserved women's seats, and a Senate.","electoral_system":"53 of 80 seats are elected by closed-list proportional representation, with the rest chosen by women's, youth and disability councils.","government_now":"The RPF coalition took 69 percent of the party vote, and Kagame, in power since 1994, was re-elected with above 99 percent.","context":"Kagame has delivered widely cited gains in health, order and growth while allowing no genuine political competition. Constitutional changes let him potentially stay to 2034, and the next general election is due in 2029.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"RPF":["Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR-Inkotanyi)","Rwandan Patriotic Front","Dominant ruling party of President Paul Kagame, grown from the movement that ended the 1994 genocide; controls Rwandan politics and leads the governing coalition."],"PL":["Parti Lib\u00e9ral (PL)","Liberal Party","Nominally liberal party that operates inside the RPF-dominated system as a cooperative, pro-government partner; second-largest vote in 2024."],"PSD":["Parti Social D\u00e9mocrate (PSD)","Social Democratic Party","Centre-left social-democratic party, another RPF-aligned cooperating party rather than genuine opposition."],"PDI":["Parti D\u00e9mocratique Id\u00e9al (PDI)","Ideal Democratic Party","Small party with roots in Rwanda's Muslim community, holding a couple of seats and aligned with the government."],"DGPR":["Parti D\u00e9mocratique Vert du Rwanda","Democratic Green Party of Rwanda","Environmentalist party that positions itself as Rwanda's main genuine opposition, though operating under tight constraints; holds two seats."],"PSI":["Parti Social Imberakuri (PS-Imberakuri)","Social Party Imberakuri","Small social party, once briefly oppositional but now aligned with the government; holds two seats."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Chamber of Deputies","as_of":"2024 election","total":80,"seats":{"RPF":37,"PL":5,"PSD":5,"PDI":2,"DGPR":2,"PSI":2}},"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":"2029","title":"Rwandan parliamentary election","chamber":"Chamber of Deputies","type":"expected"}}