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Senate elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 20 August 2023. [2] [3] [4]
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Senate elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 20 August 2023. [2] [3] [4]
The Senate is composed of 72 senators elected indirectly for a six-year term using first-past-the-post voting by an electoral college composed of municipal and departmental councillors with each of the twelve departments electing six senators. [5]
The full results can be viewed below: [6]
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| Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) | 52 |  8 | ||||||||||||
| Rally for Democracy and Social Progress (RDPS) | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Action and Renewal Movement (MAR) | 2 |  0 | ||||||||||||
| Club 2002 – Party for the Unity and the Republic (Club 2002-PUR) | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Liberal Republican Party (PRL) | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Union of Congolese Democrats and Liberals (UDLC) | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Citizen Rally (RC) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Congo on the Move (LCEM) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS) | 1 |  1 | ||||||||||||
| Dynamic for the Republic and Development (DRD) | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Patriotic Front (FP) | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Party for Unity, Liberty and Progress (PULP) | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Union of Humanist Democrats-Yuki (UDH-Yuki) | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Independents | 7 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 72 | | ||||||||||||
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