Chamber:
	Assemblée nationale
Dates of elections / renewal (from/to):
	28 March 1995 28 May 1995
Purpose of elections:
	Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament on the normal expiry of the members’ term of office.
Background and outcome of elections:
	Due mainly to delays in the registration of voters, the 1995 general elections were postponed twice, having first been set for 5 February and then for 19 March. Altogether 5580 candidates from 31 parties ran for the enlarged Assembly’s 83 seats – 19 more than at the previous elections in February 1991. The opposition to the Benin Renewal Party (PRB) of President of the Republic Nicéphore Soglo was somewhat divided, agreement being limited most clearly to the adverse effects of the recent devaluation of the CFA franc and to charges of nepotism in the President’s family. The Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) found “generally satisfactory conditions” for voting. Final results were not announced for several days. Ultimately, the PRB was credited with 20 seats, thus topping the Democratic Renewal Party (PRD) of outgoing Speaker Adrien Houngbedji and the Action Front for Renewal and Development (FARD) of former left-wing President Mathieu Kerekou. The party known as “Our Common Cause” (NCC), led by Mr. Albert Tévoédjré and a key player in the outgoing Parliament, fell to three seats. On 16 April, the Constitutional Court invalidated the results bearing on 13 seats due to multiple irregularities. Fresh polling in the constituencies concerned took place on 28 May. The overall outcome gave the opposition an absolute-majority total of 51 seats to 32 for parties backing President Soglo. On 23 June, the 20-member Cabinet was reshuffled.

STATISTICS

Round no 1: Distribution of seats
Political Group	Total
Benin Renewal Party (PRB)	20
Democratic Renewal Party (PRD)	19
Presidential Tendency parties	12
Action Front for Renewal and Development (FARD)	11
Social Democrat Party (PSD)	7
Our Common Cause (NCC)	4
Other opposition parties	10

Distribution of seats according to sex:
Men:	78
Women:	5