2024 Algerian presidential election

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2024 Algerian presidential election
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Registered24,351,551
Turnout46.10% (Increase2.svg 6.22pp)
  Premier dr. Golob na uradnem in prijateljskem obisku v Ljudski demokraticni republiki Alziriji (53750002104) portrait.jpg Abdelaali Hassani Cherif (cropped).jpg Youcef Aouchiche (cropped).jpg
Nominee Abdelmadjid Tebboune Abdelaali Hassani Cherif  [ fr ] Youcef Aouchiche  [ fr ]
Party Independent MSP FFS
Alliance FLN, RND, MB, FM
Popular vote7,976,291904,642580,495
Percentage84.30%9.56%6.14%
2024 Algerian presidential election results by province.svg
Results by province
Tebboune:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%      90+%
President before election

Abdelmadjid Tebboune
Independent

Elected President

Abdelmadjid Tebboune
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 7 September 2024. [1] [2] Originally scheduled for December 2024, they were brought forward by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. Tebboune was challenged by Youcef Aouchiche of the Socialist Forces Front and Abdellah Hassan Cherif of the Movement of Society for Peace. Tebboune won a second term in office. Conflicting reports about the election's turnout by the National Independent Electoral Authority led to criticism from the three candidates. Aouchiche and Cherif challenged the results.

Background

On 21 March 2024, the office of incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced that the election would be held on 7 September. This announcement was unexpected, as the election had been anticipated to occur in December as they were in 2019. [2] Tebboune later explained that the date was the optimal time to hold the election "because it coincides with the end of the summer vacations and the start of the new school year", hereby ensuring high turnout. However, some have questioned the logic of the timing, pointing out that a September election would mean that campaigning would be held amid scorching summer temperatures. [3]

Tebboune's selection of the election date was supported by his former political party, the FLN, which said that it was considering whether to endorse Tebboune or field its own candidate. Islamist parties also supported the election date, with Movement of Society for Peace leader Abderrazak Makri  [ fr ] expressing interest in running for President, pending the party's decision on a scheduled summit in June. The Socialist Forces Front promised to make the election "an occasion for a great debate", while the Rally for Culture and Democracy described the early election as a "constitutional coup de force" that would force a timeline causing "the de facto exclusion of society as a whole." [3]

Tebboune's decision to set the elections in September also led to confusion among the Algerian public, with the Algerian Arabic phrase Ma fhemna walou (ما فهمنا ولو, "We didn't understand anything") becoming a trending topic on social media as a result. [3]

Electoral system

The President of Algeria is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate had received a majority of the vote in the first round, a second round would have been held. [4] Candidates needed signatures from 600 elected officials or from 50,000 members of the public to be listed on the ballot. [5] For this election, there were around 24.5 million registered voters. [6] This election was administered by the National Independent Electoral Authority, which was established in 2019 as a response to demands from pro-democracy protestors. Algeria's Interior Ministry had previously been in charge of elections. [7]

Candidates

On 11 July, Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced his decision to run for a second term. [8]

Zoubida Assoul, a lawyer and former magistrate, announced her decision to run for president as the leader of the Union for Reform and Progress  [ fr ] (UCP). [9] A total of 34 people expressed their intention to run for the presidency, including Youcef Aouchiche of the Socialist Forces Front, Abdellah Hassan Cherif of the Movement of Society for Peace; and Sadia Naghzi of the General Confederation of Algerian Enterprises. Prospective candidates were required to collect a minimum number of signatures to register their candidacy before 18 July. [10] The number of candidates was subsequently reduced to 15. [11]

On 13 July, Louisa Hanoune of the Workers' Party announced her withdrawal of her candidacy as president, citing "unfair conditions". [12]

On 1 August, the attorney general of the court of Algiers announced the opening of an in-depth preliminary investigation concerning the sale of sponsorships by more than 50 elected officials to candidates for the presidential election. The prosecution announced that all the candidates involved will be arrested on the basis of the anti-corruption legislation in force. [13]

Only three candidates were allowed to appear on the final ballot: Tebboune, Aouchiche and Cherif. [14]

Campaign

Attendance at campaign events was marred by low turnout due to high summer temperatures. Throughout the election season, Tebboune highlighted his administration's achievements despite corruption and the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria, while pledging to create 450,000 jobs after he is reelected and raise monthly unemployment benefits for people aged 19 to 40 from 13,000 dinars to 20,000, equivalent to the Algerian minimum wage. [15] Both Hassani and Aouchiche campaigned on allowing greater political and media freedoms, with the latter also promising an amnesty for "prisoners of conscience" and a review of "unjust laws". [16] Although the candidates encouraged people to vote, other activists and political parties called for a boycott. [17]

Conduct

On 21 July, a group of 11 opposition figures released an open letter denouncing what they called "the authoritarian climate" surrounding the election, adding that it was a "rubber-stamp" exercise. [11]

Overseas voting, covering around 800,000 Algerians, began on 2 September, while mobile polling stations servicing remote areas of Algeria began operating on 4 September. [16] On 7 September, polling opened at 08:00 and was originally supposed to close at 19:00 [18] before it was extended by an hour. [19] Domestic turnout was estimated to be at around 48%, while turnout in overseas balloting was at 19.6%. [20]

On 8 September, opposition candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif's campaign stated they recorded instances of voter fraud and election violations, namely that polling station officials inflated the results, failed to deliver vote-sorting records to the candidates' representatives, and instances of proxy group voting. [21]

Despite being proclaimed the winner, on 9 September Abdelmadjid Tebboune joined Cherif and Aouchiche in criticizing the central election authority when it was revealed the real turnout was only 23.3% instead of the 48% it had reported earlier. [22] Algerian commentators speculated that Tebboune's decision to criticize the election authority after being declared the winner suggested that there was a dispute among Algeria's ruling elite. [7] On 10 September, Cherif and Aouchiche filed an appeal at the Constitutional Court of Algeria challenging the results. [23] On 14 September, the court ruled that Tebboune had won the election but found that his share of the vote was lower than initially announced, [24] winning 84.3% of votes instead of around 95%. [25] A record 15.72% of votes cast were invalid or blank.[ citation needed ]

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Abdelmadjid Tebboune Independent7,976,29184.30
Abdelaali Hassani Cherif  [ fr ] Movement of Society for Peace 904,6429.56
Youcef Aouchiche  [ fr ] Socialist Forces Front 580,4956.14
Total9,461,428100.00
Valid votes9,461,42884.28
Invalid/blank votes1,764,63715.72
Total votes11,226,065100.00
Registered voters/turnout24,351,55146.10
Source: Algeria Press Service

By province

ProvinceTebbouneHassani CherifAouchicheValidInvalid/
blank		TotalRegistered
voters		Turnout
Votes%Votes%Votes%
Adrar 74,00489.267,1798.661,7302.0982,91319,440102,353163,10662.75
Aïn Defla 166,49887.9212,8946.819,9915.28189,38331,880221,263488,47245.30
Aïn Témouchent 99,87787.599,4808.314,6764.10114,03352,193166,226320,17651.92
Algiers 479,27286.4942,0997.6032,7655.91554,136103,333657,4691,904,16634.53
Annaba 125,76085.0414,6869.937,4345.03147,88046,569194,449433,09744.90
Batna 263,31590.4718,2276.269,4963.26291,03871,011362,049673,16853.78
Béchar 54,85383.797,29411.143,3205.0765,46724,76490,231177,38450.87
Béjaïa 45,31253.894,1084.8934,66241.2284,08219,424103,506550,72818.79
Béni Abbès 8,65351.355,07530.123,12418.5416,8526,25423,10639,55058.42
Biskra 143,62084.7618,05510.667,7604.58169,43522,834192,269397,86448.33
Blida 198,23088.3417,1767.658,9964.01224,40250,463274,865695,37939.53
Bordj Badji Mokhtar 35,07389.892,0855.341,8594.7639,01760539,62241,81694.75
Bordj Bou Arréridj 154,12685.7614,5748.1111,0236.13179,72325,928205,651463,21344.40
Bouïra 194,94277.4831,14312.3825,51810.14251,60328,456280,059539,19051.94
Boumerdès 120,44076.0820,85113.1717,01010.75158,30120,203178,504518,06034.46
Chlef 211,62383.6725,49910.0815,7976.25252,91926,232279,151721,23238.70
Constantine 128,87580.2919,72612.2911,9097.42160,51086,868247,378599,52941.26
Djanet 12,79387.251,1687.977024.7914,6635,95620,61933,64961.28
Djelfa 275,12984.3835,45910.8715,4794.75326,06732,162358,229617,77857.99
El Bayadh 87,18084.6712,46412.103,3223.23102,96614,638117,604193,43960.80
El Menia 16,39792.171,0655.993271.8417,7896,56124,35044,74454.42
El M'Ghair 43,70790.613,8517.986761.4048,2344,88353,11798,03254.18
El Oued 99,63183.1714,08711.766,0795.07119,79716,123135,920268,61950.60
El Taref 129,50184.9514,8089.718,1325.33152,44136,644189,085329,97157.30
Ghardaïa 70,30789.745,8467.462,1942.8078,34721,14199,488201,08849.47
Guelma 110,95287.0911,6259.124,8223.78127,39933,736161,135363,59744.32
Illizi 15,79660.866,02323.214,13615.9425,95513,69839,65359,78966.32
In Guezzam 30,32890.912,3126.937222.1633,36266834,03034,94597.38
In Salah 13,78758.787,11830.352,54910.8723,4545,16128,61542,78966.87
Jijel 144,31385.4715,7929.358,7325.17168,83731,787200,624438,77145.72
Khenchela 106,21790.379,4818.071,8331.56117,53113,657131,188261,15650.23
Laghouat 122,06785.3014,46010.106,5814.60143,10850,971194,079300,38664.61
Mascara 269,09685.0434,42810.8812,8964.08316,42039,152355,572577,17361.61
Médéa 184,01484.8318,5118.5314,3916.63216,91632,612249,528553,13745.11
Mila 153,39887.7813,2907.618,0654.62174,75353,281228,034501,80545.44
Mostaganem 205,44385.6119,6818.2014,8536.19239,97726,734266,711491,09054.31
M'Sila 290,44987.8528,6998.6811,4603.47330,60828,424359,032694,10351.73
Naâma 66,50781.2110,52612.854,8625.9481,89514,73496,629176,24854.83
Oran 503,35886.7847,2148.1429,4705.08580,04235,993616,0351,041,58059.14
Ouargla 75,67684.389,44210.534,5685.0989,68611,958101,644204,25149.76
Ouled Djellal 33,30789.283,3198.906811.8337,30711,57948,886107,92245.30
Oum El Bouaghi 134,67288.1211,5227.546,6334.34152,82750,488203,315423,05348.06
Relizane 140,09779.7924,19213.7811,2916.43175,58043,259218,839438,69849.88
Saïda 105,54187.1810,5568.724,9624.10121,05923,615144,674247,10058.55
Sétif 274,97681.2434,35110.1529,1478.61338,47477,860416,3341,026,93640.54
Sidi Bel Abbès 148,13185.5813,9698.0710,9926.35173,09272,337245,429470,04152.21
Skikda 195,67783.3722,8779.7516,1616.89234,71553,219287,934622,55246.25
Souk Ahras 125,96090.717,8465.655,0543.64138,86014,707153,567325,47747.18
Tamanrasset 37,73782.566,73714.741,2332.7045,70717,31863,025111,77156.39
Tébessa 230,59085.4425,0969.3014,1975.26269,88321,840291,723477,28061.12
Tiaret 188,26072.1044,84417.1727,99810.72261,10226,943288,045570,76650.47
Timimoun 28,76375.986,99818.492,0945.5337,8558,32846,18376,96560.01
Tindouf 39,82373.308,11014.936,39711.7754,33024,70579,035113,55869.60
Tipaza 130,39785.0214,6979.588,2735.39153,36748,331201,698445,34245.29
Tissemsilt 62,50984.757,96610.803,2824.4573,75718,71392,470177,55552.08
Tizi Ouzou 66,45259.409,3948.4036,02732.20111,87316,528128,401682,29818.82
Tlemcen 291,94786.8732,9979.8211,1113.31336,05544,678380,733746,87450.98
Touggourt 64,32989.396,5839.151,0491.4671,96114,78786,748167,60351.76
Algerian diaspora 146,60490.675,0873.159,9926.18161,6838,271169,954865,49019.64
Total7,976,29184.30904,6429.56580,4956.149,461,4281,764,63711,226,06524,351,55146.10
Source: Official Journal [26]

Aftermath

Tebboune was inaugurated for his second term on 17 September. [27]

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