Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993

27 April 1993

Party	Leader	%	Seats
GPC	Ali Abdullah Saleh	28.69%	123
YSP	Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas	18.54%	56
Al-Islah	Sadiq al-Ahmar	17.14%	62
Ba'ath Party		3.60%	7
NUPO	Abdul Ghani Thabet	2.34%	1
Party of Truth	Ahmad al-Shami	0.84%	2
NRO		0.28%	1
DNP		0.20%	1
Independent	–	27.15%	47

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 1993,^[1] the first after Yemeni unification. The General People's Congress emerged as the largest party, winning 123 of the 301 seats.^[2] Voter turnout was 84.8%.

Electoral system

The country continued to use the electoral system of North Yemen, with the 301 members of Parliament elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.^[3]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
General People's Congress	640,523	28.69	123
Yemeni Socialist Party	413,984	18.54	56
Al-Islah	382,545	17.14	62
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party	80,362	3.60	7
Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation	52,303	2.34	1
Party of Truth	18,659	0.84	2
League of Sons of Yemen	16,155	0.72	0
Nasserist Reform Organisation	6,191	0.28	1
Democratic Nasserist Party	4,576	0.20	1
National Democratic Front	3,793	0.17	0
People's Forces Union	2,662	0.12	0
Unionist Assembly	1,855	0.08	0
Liberation Front	1,706	0.08	0
September Democrats	532	0.02	0
National Front Popular Organisation	148	0.01	0
Social Nationalist Party	124	0.01	0
Revolutionary Democrats	78	0.00	0
Democratic Movement	71	0.00	0
The (Legal) Union	30	0.00	0
National Cohesion Conference	16	0.00	0
Democratic Front	15	0.00	0
Independents	606,201	27.15	47
Vacant	–	–	1
Invalid/blank votes	47,712	–	–
Total	2,280,241	100	301
Registered voters/turnout	2,688,323	84.82	–
Source: Al-Bab

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p301 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
↑ Nohlen et al., p309
↑ Nohlen et al., p298

External links

Election report Inter-Parliamentary Union

Elections and referendums in Yemen

Presidential elections	1999 2006 2012 next

Parliamentary elections	1993 1997 2003 next

Pre-unification elections	Colony of Aden: 1955 1959 1964 North Yemen: 1971 1988 South Yemen: 1978 1986

Referendums	1991 2001

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