Talk:2018 Gabonese parliamentary election

Elections postponed again (not on 28 april)
The president of the organising 'centre gabonais des élections' was only appointed on the 26th.Bancki (talk) 10:44, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Electoral system
The legislative electoral system is single member absolute majority (two round)

See:







(2001 election observation report: "selon un scrutin majoritaire, uninominal et à deux tours")

I have no idea why IPU says (no other source) they use multimember electoral districts equal to the provinces. Bancki (talk) 10:55, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for these sources! I was in the midst of looking for more info on the application of the "Dialogue national d’Angondjé". So the total of seats did increase from 120 to 143, filled in two round with majority system in uninominal constituencies. Concerning your question, from experience the IPU is never accurate on recent changes, as its pages are updated a few months following each elections. Until then, the website show the last electoral law in use in the country. That's why it mention plurinominal constituencies. As for your last source, it's about the 2001 election, which was in two round. According to the 2006 election page on IPU, the electoral system was switched to one round sometime in between 2001 and 2006, and now in 2018 it switch back to two rounds. Anyways, we can now properly update the page. Thanks again.--Aréat (talk) 18:10, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

6 & 27 October
The legislative elections will take place on 6 october 2018, coupled with the local elections and with 2nd round on the 27th if necessary. Bancki (talk) 13:18, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Results
French wiki has the complete final result of 143 seats. ;) --Aréat (talk) 20:03, 30 October 2018 (UTC) The remaining seat will be decided between PDG and RHM on 10 November, by the way.--Aréat (talk) 20:12, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I've updated the table on en.wiki. I found one source (Xinhua) that said PDG won 73 seats in the first round (as opposed to the 74 we have here). Any idea whether that was just a mistake? Number   5  7  22:11, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I believe that's the counting from when it wasn't clear what the situation was in Elelem. When some source had a total of 59 run off instead of 60.--Aréat (talk) 22:34, 30 October 2018 (UTC)