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2025 Guyanese general election
← 2020 By December 2025
All 65 seats in the National Assembly
33 seats needed for a majority
 
Candidate Irfaan Ali Aubrey Norton Nigel Hughes
Party PPP/C APNU AFC
Last election 50.69%, 33 seats 22 seats 9 seats
Seats needed Steady Increase 11 Increase 24
Incumbent President

Irfaan Ali
PPP/C



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General elections are constitutionally mandated to be held in Guyana by December 2025 to elect members of the National Assembly and the President of Guyana. The incumbent President is Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who was elected in the March 2020 elections. He is eligible to seek a second and final term, with the constitution limiting presidents to two terms.

Background

In the 2020 elections, the ruling APNU + AFC coalition was defeated by the PPP/C, although the election results were not finalised for four months due to attempts to rig the results in favour of the governing parties. The PPP/C gained one seat, giving it a majority of 33 seats in the 65-member National Assembly, while the APNU + AFC was reduced from 33 to 31 seats, with the remaining seat taken by an alliance of the Liberty and Justice Party, A New and United Guyana and The New Movement. As PPP/C got the most votes, its presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali won the presidency.

Electoral system

The 65 members of the National Assembly are elected using closed list proportional representation from a single nationwide 40-seat constituency and 10 sub-national constituencies with a total of 25 seats. Seats are allocated using the Hare quota.

The President is elected by a first-past-the-post double simultaneous vote system, whereby each list nominates a presidential candidate and the presidential election itself is won by the candidate of the list having a plurality.

Notes

  1. The APNU+AFC, electoral alliance won 33 seats in the previous election but was since dissolved; the APNU holds 22 of those seats (People's National Congress Reform 21, Working People's Alliance 1) and the AFC 9.

References

  1. Electoral system IPU
  2. Guyana : Constitution and politics The Commonwealth
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