2016 Moroccan general election

2016 Moroccan general election

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All 395 seats in the House of Representatives 198 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader % Seats +/– PJD Abdelilah Benkirane 27.88 125 +18 PAM Ilyas El Omari 20.95 102 +55 Istiqlal Hamid Chabat 10.68 46 −14 RNI Salaheddine Mezouar 9.32 37 −15 MP Mohand Laenser 6.84 27 −5 USFP Driss Lachgar 6.19 20 −19 PPS Nabil Benabdallah 4.72 12 −6 UC Mohammed Abied 4.52 19 −4 FGD 2.83 2 New MDS 1.34 3 +1 PUD 0.41 1 0 PVG 0.41 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Abdelillah Benkirane PJD Saadeddine Othmani PJD

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General elections were held in Morocco on 7 October 2016.^[1] The ruling Justice and Development Party remained the largest party, winning 125 of the 395 seats in the House of Representatives, a gain of 18 seats compared to the 2011 elections.

Saadeddine Othmani was appointed as Prime Minister by King Mohammed VI and formed his cabinet on 5 April 2017, including the PJD, the National Rally of Independents (RNI), the Popular Movement (MP), the Constitutional Union (UC), the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP).