{"iso":"SN","name":"Senegal","flag":"\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3","vote":"National Assembly \u00b7 baseline forecast","model":"baseline","updated":"2024-11-17","source":"2024 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the national list vote at the parliamentary election of 17 November 2024, official results as published by the electoral authority CENA. Smaller lists are not shown.","shares":{"PASTEF":55.0,"TWS":14.7,"JAN":9.1,"SSK":6.1},"polls":[],"parties":{"PASTEF":{"name":"PASTEF \u2013 Les Patriotes","color":"#9E1A16","name_en":"PASTEF, the African Patriots of Senegal"},"TWS":{"name":"Takku Wallu S\u00e9n\u00e9gal","color":"#724F39","name_en":"Takku Wallu Senegal"},"JAN":{"name":"J\u00e0mm ak Njarin","color":"#005F35","name_en":"Jamm ak Njarin"},"SSK":{"name":"Samm Sa Kaddu","color":"#FFC704"}},"primer":{"system":"Republic with a directly elected president and a prime minister","head_of_state":"President Bassirou Diomaye Faye","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo","legislature":"National Assembly, unicameral, 165 members elected for five-year terms.","electoral_system":"The president is directly elected, and National Assembly members are chosen in multi-seat constituencies.","government_now":"Faye's PASTEF party holds an absolute majority of 130 of 165 seats won at the November 2024 snap parliamentary election.","context":"Faye dissolved the National Assembly early in 2024 seeking a stronger mandate. In May 2026 he removed Ousmane Sonko from office and named Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo, a veteran central bank economist, as prime minister on 25 May 2026.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"PASTEF":["PASTEF \u2013 Les Patriotes","African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity","Left-wing, pan-Africanist and sovereigntist anti-establishment party of President Faye and (former) PM Sonko; governs with a 130-seat absolute majority."],"TWS":["Takku Wallu S\u00e9n\u00e9gal","Unite to Save Senegal","Opposition coalition built around former president Macky Sall's APR and Abdoulaye Wade's PDS; the main opposition bloc."],"JAN":["J\u00e0mm ak Njarin","Peace and Progress","Opposition coalition led by former prime minister Amadou Ba; broadly centrist."],"SSK":["Samm Sa Kaddu","Protect Your Vote","Opposition coalition led by former Dakar mayor Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Dias."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2024 election","total":165,"seats":{"PASTEF":130,"TWS":16,"JAN":7,"SSK":3}},"region_winners":{"K\u00e9dougou":"PASTEF","Tambacounda":"PASTEF","Kolda":"PASTEF","S\u00e9dhiou":"PASTEF","Ziguinchor":"PASTEF","Saint-Louis":"PASTEF","Matam":"TWS","Kaffrine":"PASTEF","Kaolack":"PASTEF","Fatick":"PASTEF","Louga":"PASTEF","Thi\u00e8s":"PASTEF","Dakar":"PASTEF","Diourbel":"PASTEF"},"region_meta":{"election":"2024 snap parliamentary election (17 November 2024), national-list vote","source":"Electoral authority CENA, official results as published","note":"Each of the 14 regions shaded by the coalition that led the national-list vote there. PASTEF swept 13 regions in a landslide; only Matam, the stronghold of former president Macky Sall, went to his Takku Wallu Senegal coalition."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2029-11","title":"Senegalese legislative election","chamber":"National Assembly","type":"expected"}}