Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993

Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993

27 April 1993

Party Leader % Seats GPC Ali Abdullah Saleh 28.69% 123 YSP Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas 18.54% 56 Al-Islah Sadiq al-Ahmar 17.14% 62 Ba'ath Party 3.60% 7 NUPO Abdul Ghani Thabet 2.34% 1 Party of Truth Ahmad al-Shami 0.84% 2 NRO 0.28% 1 DNP 0.20% 1 Independent – 27.15% 47

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 1993,^[1] the first after Yemeni unification. The General People's Congress emerged as the largest party, winning 123 of the 301 seats.^[2] Voter turnout was 84.8%.

Electoral system

The country continued to use the electoral system of North Yemen, with the 301 members of Parliament elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.^[3]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
General People's Congress	640,523	28.69	123
Yemeni Socialist Party	413,984	18.54	56
Al-Islah	382,545	17.14	62
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party	80,362	3.60	7
Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation	52,303	2.34	1
Party of Truth	18,659	0.84	2
League of Sons of Yemen	16,155	0.72	0
Nasserist Reform Organisation	6,191	0.28	1
Democratic Nasserist Party	4,576	0.20	1
National Democratic Front	3,793	0.17	0
People's Forces Union	2,662	0.12	0
Unionist Assembly	1,855	0.08	0
Liberation Front	1,706	0.08	0
September Democrats	532	0.02	0
National Front Popular Organisation	148	0.01	0
Social Nationalist Party	124	0.01	0
Revolutionary Democrats	78	0.00	0
Democratic Movement	71	0.00	0
The (Legal) Union	30	0.00	0
National Cohesion Conference	16	0.00	0
Democratic Front	15	0.00	0
Independents	606,201	27.15	47
Vacant	–	–	1
Invalid/blank votes	47,712	–	–
Total	2,280,241	100	301
Registered voters/turnout	2,688,323	84.82	–
Source: Al-Bab

References

1. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p301 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
2. Nohlen et al., p309
3. Nohlen et al., p298

External links

• Election report Inter-Parliamentary Union