2018 East Timorese parliamentary election

2018 East Timorese parliamentary election
East Timor
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All 65 seats in the National Parliament
33 seats needed for a majority
Turnout80.98% (Increase 4.24pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/–
AMP Xanana Gusmão 49.58 34 −1
Fretilin Mari Alkatiri 34.16 23 0
Democratic Mariano Sabino Lopes 8.07 5 −2
FDD António de Sá Benevides 5.49 3 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Most voted-for party by district
Prime Minister before Prime Minister-designate
Mari Alkatiri
Fretilin
Taur Matan Ruak
PLP
Election call for the early parliamentary elections 2018
AMP campaign in Atauro in May 2018

Early parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 12 May 2018 after the National Parliament was dissolved by President Francisco Guterres on 26 January 2018.[1]

The Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP), a coalition of three opposition parties, won an absolute majority of 34 of the 65 seats in Parliament.[2] Voter turnout was 81 percent, five percentage points higher than the previous year.[3] 784,286 people were eligible to vote.[4]

  1. ^ Nobel laureate blasts East Timor’s failure against poverty The Washington Post, 16 April 2018
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  4. ^ "MEDIA STAE - Tetun | Português Evolusaun kona ba numeru eleitor resenseadu husi referendu 30 fulan agostu 1999 to'o Eleisaun Parlamentar iha 12 fulan Maiu 2018. Evolução do número de eleitores recenseados desde o referendo de 30 de Agosto de 1999 à Eleição Parlamentar de 12 de Maio de 2018. | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2023-01-04.

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