User:Mattkandel/Elections in Burkina Faso

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Big part of this expansion is going to be linking all the past election's wikipedia pages here.

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New Paragraph: 1965 General Elections:

Main Article: 1965 Upper Voltan presidential election

New Paragraph: 1978 General Elections:

Main Article: 1978 Upper Voltan presidential election

New Paragraph: 1991 General Elections:

Main Article: 1991 Burkinabé presidential election

New Paragraph: 1998 General Elections:

Main Article: 1998 Burkinabé presidential election

New Paragraph: 2005 General Elections:

Main Article: 2005 Burkinabé presidential election

New Paragraph: 2010 General Elections:

Main Article: 2010 Burkinabé presidential election

Incumbent president Blaise Compaoré won the presidency in 2010. However, citizens of Burkina Faso began to speak out about the fraudulent system, and how Compaoré and his party was going to fix the vote for another landslide victory.

2015 General Elections[edit]
Main article: 2015 Burkinabé general election

General elections were due to be held on 11 October 2015. However, on 16 September the now disbanded Regiment of Presidential Security (RSP) staged a coup d'état, and held the capital, Ouagadougou, for about a week. The protestors set the National Assembly building on fire and continued to riot in protest of elections fraud. Following the Coup d'état, President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré won the election, in Burkina Faso's first peaceful and fair elections with actual uncertainty of who was going to win the presidency in 50 years.

New Paragraph: 2020 General Elections:

Main Article: 2020 Burkinabé general election

The incumbent president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré won the presidency and was re-elected in 2020. Following some gruesome terrorist attacks by Islamic jihadist groups, particularly Jihadist Group to Support Islam and Muslims and the Islamic State. Kaboré ran for re-election on the promise of bringing peace to Burkina Faso, and ending the terrorist attacks plaguing the nation.

Adding to the electoral system paragraph: The 127 members of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso is elected by proportional representation. It consists of 45 multi-member constituencies; with each having about 2-9 seats. There is also an additional 16 seats that are elected proportionally nationwide. The presidential elections in Burkina Faso have two steps. First, after the initial round of votes are cast and counted, if one candidate is a majority winner, then that person is elected president of Burkina Faso. Otherwise, the two candidates with the highest number of votes move on to the final round, where ultimately a president will be elected.