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| Registered | 718,715 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 61.58% ( 8.66pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Guyana on 1 September 2025. [1] The vote count concluded on 3 September, with incumbent president Irfaan Ali winning a second and final term.
The People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) returned to government following the 2 March 2020 general election, in which they defeated the governing APNU+AFC coalition. The PPP/C's presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali, was sworn in as the 10th President of Guyana the following August, as results were not finalised for four months due to attempts to rig the election in favour of the governing alliance. [2] [3] The PPP/C won 33 seats and 50.69% of the vote, giving it a majority of one in the National Assembly. The APNU+AFC received 31 seats and 47.34% of the vote, a loss of two seats. The remaining seat was awarded to the LJP—ANUG—TNM alliance, which received a combined total of 1.13% of the vote. [4]
The 12th Parliament of Guyana was dissolved by President Ali on 3 July 2025. [5]
The 65 members of the National Assembly are elected using closed list proportional representation from a single nationwide 40-seat constituency and 10 sub-national constituencies with a total of 25 seats. Seats are allocated using the Hare quota. [6]
The President is elected by a first-past-the-post double simultaneous vote system, whereby each list nominates a presidential candidate and the presidential election itself is won by the candidate of the list having a plurality. [7]
The PPP/C opted to re-nominate the ticket of Irfaan Ali and Mark Phillips, with the party's General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo citing the accomplishments of the administration during the term. [8] On 18 June 2025, the largest opposition alliance in the previous parliament, APNU, announced PNCR leader Aubrey Norton would be their presidential candidate, with Member of Parliament Juretha Fernandes as his running mate. [9]
Multiple alliances were formed ahead of the election as part of an effort by opposition parties to unite in order to increase their chances of defeating the governing PPP/C.
On 30 May 2025, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Working People's Alliance (WPA), previously a member of the APNU, signed a coalition agreement. [10]
On 29 June 2025, We Invest In Nationhood (WIN), led by businessman Azruddin Mohamed, announced a joinder agreement with A New and United Guyana. Under the agreement, ANUG would effectively merge with WIN, adopting its logo, presidential candidate and joining the list, while still retaining its right to exist as an individual party. [11]
A coalition agreement was adopted on 1 July 2025 by Forward Guyana, The People's Movement and the Vigilant Political Action Committee where the parties agreed to contest the election as one entity, opting to label the joinder the "Forward Guyana Movement". [12]
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Several international groups deployed observers for the election, including the Carter Center, the Organization of American States (OAS) and Caricom. [38]
In a pre-election statement, the Carter Center noted the size of Guyana's voter list, in which there were 757,000 registered voters out of a total population of 794,000, and criticized the failure of authorities to release the findings of the 2022 population census, calling this a "regrettable lapse" which "obscures public understanding of basic population demographics and their potential relation to the size of the voter list". [38]
After his team visited 342 polling stations on election day, former Jamaican prime minister Bruce Golding, the head of the OAS mission, said that overall, things had gone smoothly and that election officials had acted with professionalism. [39]
The observer mission from the European Union, headed by Polish MEP Robert Biedroń, described election day as "peaceful" but expressed concern about the ruling PPP/C leveraging its incumbency advantage to distort the fairness of the process. It also highlighted a lack of transparency and accountability caused by inadequate campaign finance rules. [40]
As results were finalised on 3 September, it became clear that inumbent president Irfaan Ali had won a second term, with his PPP/C party commanding 36 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly and victories in eight of the ten regions. [41] In what was described as a "tectonic political shift", newcomer party We Invest in Nationhood came second with 16 seats, leaving the previous opposition Partnership for National Unity alliance in third place with 12. [42] The last Assembly seat went to the Forward Guyana Movement and will likely be taken up by its presidential candidate, Amanza Walton-Desir. [41]
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| Party | Presidential candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| People's Progressive Party/Civic | Irfaan Ali | 242,498 | 55.31 | 36 | +3 | |
| We Invest in Nationhood | Azruddin Mohamed | 109,066 | 24.87 | 16 | New | |
| A Partnership for National Unity | Aubrey Norton | 77,998 | 17.79 | 12 | –9 | |
| Forward Guyana Movement | Amanza Walton Desir | 4,326 | 0.99 | 1 | New | |
| Alliance for Change | Nigel Hughes | 3,610 | 0.82 | 0 | –9 | |
| Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity | Simona Broomes | 969 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 438,467 | 100.00 | 65 | 0 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 718,715 | – | ||||
| Source: Stabroek News | ||||||
The PPP/C won in eight of the country's ten regions, with WIN securing victories in Regions 7 and 10. [41]
| Region | APNU | PPP/C | WIN | FGM | AFC | ALJ | Hare quota | Total votes | Total seats | |||||||||||
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| # | Name | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| 1 | Barima-Waini | 469 | 3.06 | 0.06 | 9030 | 58.92 | 1.18 | 5716 | 37.30 | 0.75 | 75 | 0.49 | 0.01 | 35 | 0.23 | 0 | 0.00 | 7663 | 15325 | 2 |
| 2 | Pomeroon-Supenaam | 1835 | 6.81 | 0.14 | 17478 | 64.85 | 1.30 | 7400 | 27.46 | 0.55 | 147 | 0.55 | 0.01 | 91 | 0.34 | 0 | 0.00 | 13476 | 26951 | 2 |
| 3 | Essequibo Islands-West Demerara | 8992 | 12.67 | 0.38 | 48055 | 67.69 | 2.03 | 12969 | 18.27 | 0.55 | 522 | 0.74 | 0.02 | 322 | 0.45 | 138 | 0.19 | 23666 | 70998 | 3 |
| 4 | Demerara-Mahaica | 46956 | 25.97 | 1.82 | 87536 | 48.42 | 3.39 | 41607 | 23.01 | 1.61 | 2431 | 1.34 | 0.09 | 1765 | 0.98 | 497 | 0.27 | 25827 | 180792 | 7 |
| 5 | Mahaica-Berbice | 6480 | 20.82 | 0.42 | 18432 | 59.22 | 1.18 | 5816 | 18.69 | 0.37 | 128 | 0.41 | 0.01 | 208 | 0.67 | 58 | 0.19 | 15561 | 31122 | 2 |
| 6 | East Berbice-Corentyne | 6223 | 10.21 | 0.31 | 41320 | 67.77 | 2.03 | 12623 | 20.70 | 0.62 | 361 | 0.59 | 0.02 | 315 | 0.52 | 132 | 0.22 | 20325 | 60974 | 3 |
| 7 | Cuyuni-Mazaruni | 983 | 9.70 | 0.19 | 3577 | 35.30 | 0.71 | 5098 | 50.32 | 1.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 415 | 4.10 | 59 | 0.58 | 5066 | 10132 | 2 |
| 8 | Potaro-Siparuni | 276 | 4.79 | 0.05 | 2872 | 49.80 | 0.50 | 2562 | 44.43 | 0.44 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 57 | 0.99 | 0 | 0.00 | 5767 | 5767 | 1 |
| 9 | Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo | 450 | 2.92 | 0.03 | 9938 | 64.55 | 0.65 | 4817 | 31.29 | 0.31 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 192 | 1.25 | 0 | 0.00 | 15397 | 15397 | 1 |
| 10 | Upper Demerara-Berbice | 5334 | 25.39 | 0.51 | 4260 | 20.28 | 0.41 | 10458 | 49.78 | 1.00 | 662 | 3.15 | 0.06 | 210 | 1.00 | 85 | 0.40 | 10505 | 21009 | 2 |
| Total Seats | 77,998 | 17.79 | 12 | 242,498 | 55.31 | 36 | 109,066 | 24.87 | 16 | 4326 | 0.99 | 1 | 3610 | 0.82 | 969 | 0.22 | 6746 | 438,467 | 65 | |
| Regional seats | 4 | 13 | 8 | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
| National Seats | 8 | 23 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
