{"iso":"ST","name":"S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe","flag":"\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf9","vote":"National Assembly \u00b7 seat projection","model":"seat","updated":"2022-09-25","source":"2022 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the National Assembly vote at the legislative election of 25 September 2022, official results as published in the official gazette of Sao Tome and Principe. Basta has no established party colour, so a neutral grey is used. Smaller parties are not shown.","shares":{"ADI":46.9,"MLSTP":32.7,"BASTA":8.8,"MCI":6.5},"polls":[],"parties":{"ADI":{"name":"Ac\u00e7\u00e3o Democr\u00e1tica Independente","color":"#ffeb00","name_en":"Independent Democratic Action"},"MLSTP":{"name":"MLSTP\u2013PSD","color":"#00AD06","name_en":"MLSTP-PSD"},"BASTA":{"name":"Movimento Basta","color":"#9a9a9a","name_en":"Basta Movement"},"MCI":{"name":"Movimento dos Cidad\u00e3os Independentes","color":"#000000","name_en":"Movement of Independent Citizens (MCI-PS)"}},"seats":{"ADI":28,"MLSTP":19,"BASTA":5,"MCI":3},"seat_meta":{"total":55,"majority":28,"method":"dhondt","threshold":0.0,"chamber":"National Assembly","note":"Real system is closed-list D'Hondt PR (no legal threshold) across seven multi-member constituencies; approximated as one national D'Hondt pool. Shares are the last Assembly election.","largest":"ADI"},"primer":{"system":"Republic with a directly elected president and a prime minister heading the government","head_of_state":"President Carlos Vila Nova","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Am\u00e9rico Ramos","legislature":"National Assembly, unicameral, 55 members elected for four-year terms.","electoral_system":"Assembly members are elected at multi-party legislative elections held every four years.","government_now":"Independent Democratic Action (ADI) won a majority at the September 2022 election; Ramos, a banker and former central bank governor, has been prime minister since 12 January 2025.","context":"The country became a multi-party democracy with the 1990 constitutional reforms. The president may dissolve the Assembly in a serious institutional crisis, with the approval of the Council of State.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"ADI":["Ac\u00e7\u00e3o Democr\u00e1tica Independente","Independent Democratic Action","Centre-right, big-tent party led by Patrice Trovoada; won a majority in 2022 and governs (PM Am\u00e9rico Ramos)."],"MLSTP":["MLSTP\u2013PSD","Movement for the Liberation of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe \u2013 Social Democratic Party","The former single ruling party of the independence era, now centre-left social democrats; the main opposition."],"BASTA":["Movimento Basta","Basta ('Enough') Movement","New anti-establishment reformist movement; small opposition party."],"MCI":["Movimento dos Cidad\u00e3os Independentes","Movement of Independent Citizens (MCI-PS)","Small centrist citizens' movement and coalition; in opposition."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2022 election","total":55,"seats":{"ADI":30,"MLSTP":18,"MCI":5,"BASTA":2}},"region_winners":{"S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9":"ADI"},"region_meta":{"election":"2022 legislative election (25 September 2022), National Assembly","source":"Official results as published in the official gazette of Sao Tome and Principe","note":"Sao Tome island shaded for ADI, which won the most seats and votes there and an absolute majority nationally. Principe (two of the 55 seats) is left unshaded because its constituency winner could not be confirmed."},"has_geo":true}