Turnout: 52.87%
About this election
Guinea held parliamentary and municipal elections on 31 May 2026 — the country's first legislative vote since the September 2021 military coup led by Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya. The elections marked a key step in the military junta's transition-to-civilian-rule roadmap, organised under a new constitution adopted in 2024/2025 that replaced the previous two-chamber parliament with a single 147-seat National Assembly. Provisional results gave the ruling Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD) 94 of the 98 single-member constituency seats; with allied parties, the pro-government bloc secured more than 100 of the 147 seats in total. Turnout stood at 52.87%, with approximately 3.4 million valid votes cast across the country. Several major pre-coup opposition parties were absent from the ballot after being dissolved or barred during the transitional period, substantially narrowing the competitive field.
The 147-seat National Assembly is elected by a parallel voting system. Voters cast two ballots: one for a local single-member constituency (98 seats decided by first-past-the-post) and one for a national proportional party list (49 seats allocated proportionally). GMD contested only the single-member constituency races; the 49 proportional list seats were competed by opposition parties, with results calculated on an electoral quotient of approximately 70,388 votes per seat. The Direction Générale des Élections (DGE) administered the elections across Guinea's 33 prefectures and the special zone of Conakry under international observation.
Alpha Condé, who became Guinea's first democratically elected president in 2010, presided over a decade of growing authoritarianism. His March 2020 adoption of a new constitution — which reset his term count and opened the door to a third presidential bid — triggered mass protests coordinated by the FNDC civil society coalition, in which dozens of demonstrators were killed by security forces. The military under Lieutenant Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya ousted Condé in September 2021. During years of transitional rule, numerous political parties were dissolved, press freedoms were curtailed, and civil society activity was restricted. The junta approved a new constitution in 2024/2025 and organised the 2026 elections as the centrepiece of its promised return to civilian governance. International observers and civil society groups noted that major opposition formations had been sidelined throughout the process, substantially limiting competitive pluralism in the vote.
The Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD) is the ruling transitional-government party; it contested only the single-member constituency races, winning 94 of 98. The Union des Mouvements pour le Progrès (UMP) was the leading non-governmental party with nine seats. Nouveau Départ (New Beginning) and the Rassemblement Guinéen pour la Transparence (RGT) each won seven seats. Many major pre-coup parties — including the RPG Arc-en-ciel of ousted President Condé, the Union des Forces Démocratiques de Guinée (UFDG), and the Union des Forces Républicaines (UFR) — were either dissolved by the transitional authorities or chose not to participate, substantially narrowing the competitive field.
Guinea's previous parliamentary elections were held on 22 March 2020, when President Alpha Condé's RPG Arc-en-ciel won approximately 79 of the 114 National Assembly seats. The vote was deeply contested: major opposition parties including the UFDG and UFR boycotted the process, alleging fraud and citing unfair conditions, while international observers noted serious procedural concerns. The disputed 2020 result was compounded by Condé's simultaneous adoption of a new constitution widely seen as enabling a third presidential term, triggering months of mass protests that formed the immediate backdrop to the September 2021 military coup.
Direction Générale des Élections (DGE) — dge.gov.gn.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.