ELECTIONS HELD IN 2002
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| 5 May 2002 | |
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| Elections were held for all the members of the National Assembly on the normal expiry of the members' term of office. | |
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| The 3,540 candidates in the running for the 111 seats to be filled in the parliamentary elections of 5 May 2002 represented a record 30 political parties. The opposition parties, which had boycotted the 1998 presidential elections and the municipal elections of 2000, participated in the legislative elections this time around.
The electoral campaign, which lasted three weeks, not marked by any major incidents, in the spirit of the new Code of Good Conduct between the political parties and the media, established by the High Information Authority to ensure ethical handling of information during this period. The electoral process was marked by the creation of the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), the first independent structure in charge of organizing elections since the country's return to a multi-party system in 1991. The other innovations were the introduction of a single ballot slip, a change which the opposition had been pushing for years, with a view to minimising electoral fraud, and the establishment of the proportional system with the highest remainders rule (90 members elected from regional lists and 21 elected from national lists). Voters were highly disciplined and the delegations from the Independent Election Observatory (IEO), the OAS and the International Organization of French-speaking Countries, which monitored the elections, stated that they had gone off peacefully and had met international standards. The results gave a close victory to the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), the party in power, with 57 out of 111 seats, as against 104 in the outgoing Assembly. The opposition turned in a good showing, taking the remaining 43 seats. The 11 remaining seats were won by a grouping of political parties considered as part of the presidential movement. The two main opposition parties, the Alliance for Democracy and the Federation - African Democratic Rally (ADF/RDA) and the Party for Democracy and Progress (PDP) obtained 17 and 10 seats, respectively. On 5 June 2002, Mr. Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, former Prime Minister and the Executive Secretary of the CDP, was elected Speaker of the National Assembly, while the outgoing Prime Minister, Mr. Ernest Yonli, was reappointed. |
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STATISTICS
| Round no 1 (5 May 2002): Elections results | |
| Number of registered electors | 2 913 219 |
| Voters | 1 868 645 (64 %) |
| Blank or invalid ballot papers | 144 581 |
| Valid votes | 1 724 064 |
| Round no 1: Distribution of votes | |||
| Political Group | Votes | % | |
| Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) | 852 835 | 49.47 | |
| Alliance for Democracy and Federation - African Democratic Rally (ADF/RDA) | 218 098 | 12.65 | |
| Party for Democracy and Progress (PDP/PS) | 129 959 | 7.54 | |
| Coalition of Democratic Forces | 76 220 | 4.42 | |
| African Independence Party (PAI) | 62 391 | 3.62 | |
| Party for National Renewal (PAREN) | 46 306 | 2.69 | |
| Union for renewal/Sankarist Movement (UNIR/MS) | 44 829 | 2.60 | |
| Progressive Democrats National Convention (CNDP) | 34 681 | 2.01 | |
| Sankarist Panafrican Convention (CPS) | n.a. | n.a. | |
| Party for Democracy and Socialisme (PDS) | 29 105 | 1.69 | |
| Other parties | n.a. | n.a. | |
| Round no 1: Distribution of seats | |||
| Political Group | Total | ||
| Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) | 57 | ||
| Alliance for Democracy and Federation - African Democratic Rally (ADF/RDA) | 17 | ||
| Party for Democracy and Progress (PDP/PS) | 10 | ||
| Coalition of Democratic Forces | 5 | ||
| African Independence Party (PAI) | 5 | ||
| Party for National Renewal (PAREN) | 4 | ||
| Union for renewal/Sankarist Movement (UNIR/MS) | 3 | ||
| Progressive Democrats National Convention (CNDP) | 2 | ||
| Sankarist Panafrican Convention (CPS) | 3 | ||
| Party for Democracy and Socialisme (PDS) | 2 | ||
| Other parties | 3 | ||
| Distribution of seats according to sex: | |
| Men: | 98 |
| Women: | 13 |
| Percent of women: | 11.71 |
| Distribution of seats according to age: | ||
| 31 to 40 years | 5 | |
| 41 to 50 years | 50 | |
| 51 to 60 years | 45 | |
| 61 to 70 years | 8 | |
| Over 70 years | 3 | |
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| Civil servants | 50 | |
| Liberal professions | 29 | |
| Retired | 21 | |
| Private sector | 11 | |
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