2024 Maldivian parliamentary election

2024 Maldivian parliamentary election

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All 93 seats in the People's Majlis 47 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PNC Mohamed Muizzu 47.48 66 +63 MDP Abdulla Shahid 30.74 12 −53 MDA Ahmed Siyam Mohamed 1.91 2 0 JP Qasim Ibrahim 1.47 1 −4 MNP Mohamed Nazim 0.50 1 New Independents – 14.52 11 +4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Speaker before Speaker after Mohamed Aslam MDP Abdul Raheem Abdulla PNC

Parliamentary elections were held in the Maldives on 21 April 2024,^[1] having previously been scheduled for 17 March.^[2] The election date was changed to April after President Mohamed Muizzu ratified election postponement bill by the People's Majlis passed on 28 February.^[3][4] Due to Grade 7, 8 and 9 exams scheduled for 16–27 April clashing with the parliamentary election date, the Ministry of Education decided to bring forward the tests to 27 March–25 April.^[5]

The result was a landslide victory for Muizzu's People's National Congress (PNC) and a heavy defeat for the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), which won a similar landslide in the 2019 elections. The results were seen as an endorsement of Muizzu's plan to press ahead with closer economic cooperation with China and a rebuke of the pro-India MDP, which had sought to disrupt efforts to realign Maldivian diplomacy.^[6][7]