2024 Somaliland presidential election

2024 Somaliland presidential election

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Turnout	52.82%
Nominee Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Muse Bihi Abdi Party Waddani Kulmiye Running mate Mohamed Aw-Ali Abdi[1] Mohamoud Hassan Saajin[2] Popular vote 407,908 225,519 Percentage 63.92% 35.34%
Results by region Results by district
President before election Muse Bihi Abdi Kulmiye Elected President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Waddani

Politics of Somaliland
Constitution Constitution
Government Government President (List) Muse Bihi Abdi Vice President Abdirahman Saylici Council of Ministers
Legislative Parliament House of Elders Chairman: Suleiman Mohamoud Adan House of Representatives Speaker: Yasin Haji Mohamoud
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Presidential elections were held in Somaliland on 13 November 2024. In the election, incumbent President Muse Bihi Abdi of the Kulmiye party was seeking a second and final term in office against the opposition candidates Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi "Irro" of the Waddani party, and Faysal Ali Warabe of the UCID party. The election was held concurrently with an election to determine the three national political parties for the next decade.

The election, which had an expected turnout of over one million people across two thousand polling stations, marked the fourth election in the de-facto nation's history. Alongside the restarting of the Las Anod conflict in the nation's east, which had delayed the election from taking place on the originally planned date of 13 November 2022, important issues voters wanted addressed by the next president included the economy/inflation, food security, job availability and the recognition of the nation on the global stage. The election was won by Abdullahi.

Seen from a larger regional perspective, the 2024 Somaliland election was one out of a total of five presidential elections in Africa in 2024 that ended with a transfer of power from the incumbent to the opposition (the others being Senegal, Mauritius, Botswana and Ghana). This was the most significant power transfer in a single electoral year in Africa since the rebirth of constitutional rule on the continent in the early 1990s.^[3]