Guinea-Bissau General election 2026 (Assembleia Nacional Popular) — Live Results & Map
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Government and coalitions
In office now
Guinea-Bissau has neither an elected president nor an elected parliament. Major-General Horta Inta-a was sworn in as transitional president on 27 November 2025, the day after the army deposed Umaro Sissoco Embaló, and said in his inaugural speech that his mandate would run for one year from that day. Ilídio Vieira Té is prime minister of the transitional government and also holds the finance portfolio. The functions of parliament are exercised by the Conselho Nacional de Transição, a body of 65 members named by the military high command. The result of the general election of 23 November 2025 was never published.
The transition rewrote both the constitution and the electoral law; the transitional president promulgated them and they were published in the Boletim Oficial in February 2026. A referendum on 30 August 2026 decided their entry into force. The president of the National Elections Commission, Judge Cármen Lobo, announced that of 914,428 registered voters 572,714 voted, 383,117 for the new constitution and 160,904 against, which the commission reported as 70% and 30% of the valid votes. Opposition parties that had called for a boycott say abstention was above 90%. Under the new texts the chamber is renamed the Assembleia Nacional and cut from 102 seats to 65; a note the commission sent to the press sets the entitlements at 17 seats for the autonomous sector of Bissau (20 before), nine each for Oio (16), Bafatá (14) and Gabú (14), seven for Cacheu (14), five for Biombo (6), three for Tombali (7), two each for Quinará (6) and Bolama/Bijagós (3), and two for the diaspora, unchanged. The president now always chairs the Council of Ministers and may dissolve parliament.
The military high command said on 1 October that the security measures adopted during the transition remain in force until the competent authorities decide otherwise, among them the ban on demonstrations, rallies and gatherings of a political nature. On 23 September security forces took over the PAIGC's headquarters on the Praça dos Heróis Nacionais, under an order requiring party offices within 500 metres of state institutions to move; the party disputes its legal basis.
Possible coalitions
Whether the vote is held on 6 December is openly in question, and the transitional authorities put it there themselves. The date was fixed by presidential decree 02/2026 of 21 January 2026, after separate hearings with the Conselho Nacional de Transição, the military high command, the prime minister and the electoral commission. On 8 October the commission's executive secretary, Felisberta Moura Vaz, told the transitional president that holding the vote on that date is impracticable in technical and procedural terms, because the steps due 90 days before polling day are already behind. The transitional prime minister, Ilídio Vieira Té, said the legal deadlines had not been met, naming the filing of candidacies with the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça and the lapsed governing bodies of several parties, which have not held the congresses needed to renew them. On 9 October the council's second vice-president, Nelson Moreira, said the council shares that position. All three say the decision belongs to the transitional president and must come as a decree; none had been published by 22 October.
On the candidacies, Umaro Sissoco Embaló said on 28 September, in an interview with Jeune Afrique from Brazzaville, that he will stand, and announced his return to Bissau for 4 October after months in Morocco; he said he would attend the congress of his party, MADEM-G15, on 16 and 17 October and then launch a Plataforma Republicana of parties to support his candidacy. The council's spokesman, Fernando Vaz, said any Guinean citizen who meets the requirements of the law may stand, and that such a candidacy would be examined by the competent institutions. The military high command then blocked the return, saying on 1 October that the conditions to guarantee his security were not in place for now. Embaló answered on his Facebook page that the ruling prevents his return, asked his supporters for calm and kept his candidacy, saying he expects the courts to judge it independently and impartially.
About this election
Background
Guinea-Bissau is scheduled to hold general elections — for the presidency and the National People's Assembly — on 6 December 2026, in an attempt to restore constitutional order after the military coup of November 2025. The vote was set by the junta that seized power, the High Military Command for the Restoration of Order, which annulled the results of the disputed election held days earlier and announced a one-year transition. Like every recent political milestone in this small West African nation, the 2026 timetable is fragile and conditional on the security and political situation; this page sets out the institutions, the crisis that produced the junta, and what a credible election would require.
The 2025 crisis
Guinea-Bissau held general elections on 23 November 2025, but before the official results were released, soldiers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces staged a coup on 26 November, detaining President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and installing a military command that annulled the vote. Both Embaló and an opposition leader had claimed victory, and the country plunged into its latest institutional rupture. The junta, which the African Union and regional bloc ECOWAS condemned, set a one-year transition and, by decree on 22 January 2026, scheduled fresh presidential and legislative elections for 6 December 2026, while barring several figures — including coup leaders — from standing.
A history of instability
Guinea-Bissau has one of the most coup-prone histories in the world: since independence from Portugal in 1974, no elected president has served a full term without a coup, attempted coup or serious instability, and the military has repeatedly intervened in politics. The country has also struggled with its role as a transit hub for cocaine trafficking between Latin America and Europe, which has corrupted parts of the state. Against this backdrop, each election is as much a test of whether the army will accept the result as of the voters' choice.
How the voting works
Under the constitution, the President is elected by a two-round majority system for a five-year term, and the 102-member National People's Assembly is elected by proportional representation in multi-member constituencies, including seats for citizens abroad. The dominant parties have historically been the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the country's former liberation movement, and the Party for Social Renewal (PRS), along with shifting coalitions. Frequent disputes between presidents and parliaments, and between rival factions of the PAIGC, have driven much of the instability, with presidents repeatedly dissolving the Assembly.
The recent record
The annulled November 2025 election was itself the product of crisis: Embaló had dissolved parliament in 2023 after an earlier attempted coup and had governed without a sitting legislature. His own election in 2019–2020 was disputed by the PAIGC, which initially refused to recognise the result. This pattern of contested outcomes and institutional breakdown is exactly what the 2026 election is meant to end — if it can be held freely and its result accepted by all sides, including the military.
What to watch in 2026
The decisive questions are whether the junta keeps to its timetable and allows a genuinely free vote, which civilian leaders and parties are permitted to stand, and whether the armed forces and the losing candidates accept the outcome. Regional and international actors — ECOWAS, the African Union, the United Nations and Portugal and other partners — will weigh heavily on the credibility of the process. Given the history of postponements and reversals, the December date should be treated as provisional until confirmed.
How the regions voted
Guinea-Bissau's politics has ethnic and regional dimensions, with the PAIGC and PRS drawing on different communities and regions across the mainland and the Bijagós islands, and the capital, Bissau, concentrating much of the population and the contest. ElectioMap will map results across the country's regions as official figures are released, if the election proceeds.
How ElectioMap will cover it
If and when voting takes place, this page will publish the live presidential and legislative results, with a regional map, as figures are released by the National Elections Commission (CNE). Until then it serves as a reference on the transition and the planned electoral calendar.
Frequently asked questions
When are Guinea-Bissau's next elections?
Presidential and legislative elections are scheduled for 6 December 2026, set by the military junta that took power in the November 2025 coup. The date is provisional and conditional on the security and political situation.
What happened in 2025?
General elections were held on 23 November 2025, but before results were released, soldiers staged a coup on 26 November, detained President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, annulled the vote and installed a one-year military transition that later set the December 2026 date.
How are Guinea-Bissau's elections run?
The President is elected by a two-round majority system for a five-year term, and the 102-member National People's Assembly by proportional representation. The dominant parties have historically been the PAIGC and the PRS.
Why is Guinea-Bissau so unstable?
Since independence in 1974 no elected president has completed a full term without a coup or serious crisis, and the army has repeatedly intervened. The country's role as a drug-trafficking transit hub has also corrupted parts of the state.
Will the election be credible?
That depends on whether the junta keeps to its timetable, which leaders are allowed to stand, and whether the military and losing candidates accept the result. ECOWAS, the African Union and the UN will weigh in heavily. Dates should be treated as provisional.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
Understanding this election
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats