2018 East Timorese parliamentary election

2018 East Timorese parliamentary election
Timor-Leste
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All 65 seats in the National Parliament
33 seats needed for a majority
Turnout80.98% (Increase 4.24pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
AMP Xanana Gusmão 49.58 34 −1
Fretilin Mari Alkatiri 34.16 23 0
Democratic Mariano Sabino Lopes 8.07 5 −2
FDD [de] António de Sá Benevides 5.49 3 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Most voted-for party by district
Prime Minister before Prime Minister-designate
Mari Alkatiri
Fretilin
Taur Matan Ruak
PLP
Election call for the early parliamentary elections 2018
AMP campaign in Atauro in May 2018

Early parliamentary elections were held in Timor-Leste on 12 May 2018 after the National Parliament was dissolved by President Francisco Guterres on 26 January 2018.[1]

The Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP), a coalition of three opposition parties, won an absolute majority of 34 of the 65 seats in Parliament.[2] Voter turnout was 81 percent, five percentage points higher than the previous year.[3] 784,286 people were eligible to vote.[4]

  1. ^ Nobel laureate blasts East Timor’s failure against poverty The Washington Post, 16 April 2018
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Leach2018-05-14 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "MEDIA STAE - Tetun | Português Evolusaun kona ba numeru eleitor resenseadu husi referendu 30 fulan agostu 1999 to'o Eleisaun Parlamentar iha 12 fulan Maiu 2018. Evolução do número de eleitores recenseados desde o referendo de 30 de Agosto de 1999 à Eleição Parlamentar de 12 de Maio de 2018. | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2023-01-04.

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