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Election Results
SOMALIA
Presidential: 1986, 2000 (Indirect), 2004 (Indirect),
2009 (Indirect), 2012 (Indirect)
Legislative
Constitutional Referendums: 1961, 1979
1956 Italian Trust Territory (Southern Somalia) Legislative Assembly Election
| Registered Voters | Not Available |
| Total Votes (Voter Turnout) | Not Available (N/A) |
| Invalid/Blank Votes | Not Available |
| Total Valid Votes | 614,909 |
| Party |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Number of Seats (60)* |
| Somali Youth League (SYL) |
333,820 |
54.29% |
43 |
| Hizbia Digil and Mirifle (HDM) |
159,967 |
26.01% |
13 |
| Somali Democratic Movement (SDM) |
80,866 |
13.15% |
3 |
| Marehan Union (MU) |
11,358 |
1.85% |
1 |
| Others |
28,898 |
4.70% |
– |
*An additional ten seats were reserved for Indians, Arabs, and other non-Somalis.
8 March 1959 Italian Administered Trust Territory (Southern Somalia) Legislative Assembly Election*
| Registered Voters | Not Available |
| Total Votes (Voter Turnout) | Not Available (N/A) |
| Invalid/Blank Votes | Not Available |
| Total Valid Votes | 313,760 |
| Party |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Number of Seats (90) |
| Somali Youth League (SYL) |
237,134 |
75.58% |
83 |
| Somali Independent Constitutional Party (HDMS) |
40,857 |
13.02% |
5 |
| Liberal Somali Youth Party (PLGS) |
35,769 |
11.40% |
2 |
*The election was boycotted by the Greater Somali League (GSL) and most of the Somali Independent Constitutional Party (HDMS).
17 February 1960 British Somaliland Legislative Council Election
| Registered Voters | Not Available |
| Total Votes (Voter Turnout) | Not Available (N/A) |
| Invalid/Blank Votes | Not Available |
| Total Valid Votes | 81,366 |
| Party |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Number of Seats (33) |
| Somali National League (SNL) |
42,395 |
52.10% |
20 |
| United Somali Party (USP) |
13,350 |
16.41% |
12 |
| National United Front (NUF) |
20,249 |
24.89% |
1 |
| Somali Youth League (SYL) |
4,626 |
5.69% |
– |
| Others |
746 |
0.92% |
– |
Note: British Somaliland received its independence on June 26, 1960, and united with the former Italian trust territory of Somalia on July 1, 1960 to form the Somali Republic. The two legislative assemblies merged together forming the National Assembly of the Republic with 123 total seats.
20 June 1961 Constitutional Referendum
Main Points: N/A
| Registered Voters | Not Available |
| Total Votes (Voter Turnout) | Not Available (N/A) |
| Invalid/Blank Votes | Not Available |
| Total Valid Votes | 1,943,451 |
| Results |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
| “Yes” Votes |
1,760,540 |
90.59% |
| “No” Votes |
182,911 |
9.41% |
30 March 1964 National Assembly Election
| Registered Voters | Not Available |
| Total Votes (Voter Turnout) | Not Available (N/A) |
| Invalid/Blank Votes | Not Available |
| Total Valid Votes | 914,069 |
| Party |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Number of Seats (123) |
| Somali Youth League (SYL) |
472,296 |
51.67% |
69 |
| Somali National Congress (SNC) |
186,208 |
20.37% |
22 |
| Somali Democratic Union (SDU) |
95,707 |
10.47% |
15 |
| Somali Independent Constitutional Party (HDMS) |
80,173 |
8.77% |
9 |
| United Somali Party (USP) |
7,552 |
0.83% |
1 |
| Liberal Somali Youth Party (PLGS) |
6,766 |
0.74% |
1 |
| Somali National League (SNL) |
4,354 |
0.48% |
1 |
| Somali African National Union (SANU) |
3,930 |
0.43% |
1 |
| Others |
57,083 |
6.24% |
4 |
26 March 1969 National Assembly Election*
| Registered Voters | Not Available |
| Total Votes (Voter Turnout) | 879,554 (N/A) |
| Invalid/Blank Votes | 97,320 |
| Total Valid Votes | 782,234 |
| Party |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Number of Seats (123) |
| Somali Youth League (SYL) |
260,046 |
33.24% |
73 |
| Somali National Congress (SNC) |
77,339 |
9.89% |
11 |
| Somali Independent Constitutional Party (HDMS) |
27,681 |
3.54% |
8 |
| Somali African National Union (SANU) |
42,006 |
5.37% |
6 |
| Liberal Somali Youth Party (PLGS) |
25,639 |
3.28% |
3 |
| Somali Democratic Union (SDU) |
46,064 |
5.89% |
2 |
| Popular Movement for Democratic Action (PMDA) |
42,629 |
5.45% |
2 |
| Somali Socialist Party (PSS) |
31,058 |
3.97% |
2 |
| Somali People’s Movement Party (PMPS) |
8,531 |
1.09% |
2 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Workers’ Party (PRSO) |
16,742 |
2.14% |
1 |
| Somali National Solidarity Party (PSNS) |
12,269 |
1.57% |
1 |
| United Somali Party (USP) |
13,942 |
1.78% |
– |
| Others |
178,288 |
22.79% |
12 |
*Many candidates affiliated with a major party only long enough to use its symbol in the election campaign and, if elected, abandoned it for the winning side as soon as the National Assembly met. Thus, by the end of May 1969 the Somali Youth League (SYL) parliamentary cohort had swelled from 73 to 109. In addition, the eleven Somali National Congress (SNC) members had formed a coalition with the SYL, which held 120 of the 123 seats in the National Assembly.
25 August 1979 Constitutional Referendum
Main Points: Single Party Presidential Republic
| Registered Voters | Not Available |
| Total Votes (Voter Turnout) | Not Available (N/A) |
| Invalid/Blank Votes | Not Available |
| Total Valid Votes | 3,605,490 |
| Results |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
| “Yes” Votes |
3,597,592 |
99.78% |
| “No” Votes |
7,898 |
0.22% |
Single Party Elections
Sole Legal Party: Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP)
30 December 1979 People’s Assembly Election*/** (171 Seats)
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31 December 1984 People’s Assembly Election** (171 Seats)
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23 December 1986 Presidential Election (Siad Barre re-elected unopposed)
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*The People’s Assembly elected Siad Barre president on 26 January 1980.
**In both elections to the People’s Assembly, the President was constitutionally entitled to appoint up to six additional members to the body.
DISINTEGRATION OF SOMALIA (1991-Present)
After the departure of President Siad Barre in early 1991, Somalia became fragmented and engaged in civil war. Warlords and rival clans clashed and claimed parts of the nation as their territory. The former British Somaliland seceded from the rest of Somalia in May 1991 as the “Republic of Somaliland“, and a stable government has been set up. It is not internationally recognized and the people recently ratified a constitution that formally removes it from the Somali Republic. In 1998, a part of Northeastern Somalia declared itself the autonomous “Puntland State“. The regional administration states that it wants to remain part of a Somalia. This region is also unrecognized by the international community.
From July 1992 to 27 August 2000, the United Nations declared Somalia a country “without a government.” An internationally recognized Transitional National Government (TNG) was convened in August 2000, but the government had little control over the nation, which was mostly controlled by rival warlords and clans. The TNG was opposed by a rival pan-Somali governmental movement, known as the Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC). Eventually the factions of the TNG and the SRRC were reconciled, and a new united movement – the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) – was formed in late 2004.
Following the end of the interim mandate of the Transitional Federal Government, the Federal Government of Somalia was established on 20 August 2012, becoming the first permanent central government in the country since the start of the civil war.
26 August 2000 Presidential Election (Chosen by the Transitional Parliament)
First Round
| Total Votes | 238 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 3 |
| Total Valid Votes | 235 |
Second Round
| Total Votes | 238 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 2 |
| Total Valid Votes | 236 |
Third Round
| Total Votes | 238 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 1 |
| Total Valid Votes | 237 |
| Candidate |
First Round |
Second Round |
Third Round |
| Abdulkassim Salat Hassan |
78 (33.19%) |
124 (52.54%) |
145 (61.18%) |
| Abdullahi Ahmed Adow |
83 (35.32%) |
110 (46.61%) |
92 (38.82%) |
| Ali Khalif Galaydh |
35 (14.89%) |
2 (0.85%) |
– |
| Ali Mahdi |
12 (5.11%) |
* |
– |
| 12 Others |
27 (11.49%) |
– |
– |
*Although Ali Mahdi qualified to participate in the second round, he withdrew from the competition.
10 October 2004 Presidential Election (Chosen by the Transitional Federal Parliament)
First Round
| Total Votes | 275 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 2 |
| Total Valid Votes | 273 |
Second Round
| Total Votes | 275 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 7 |
| Total Valid Votes | 268 |
Third Round
| Total Votes | 275 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 7 |
| Total Valid Votes | 268 |
| Candidate |
First Round |
Second Round |
Third Round |
| Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed |
80 (29.30%) |
147 (54.85%) |
189 (70.52%) |
| Abdullahi Ahmed Adow |
35 (12.82%) |
83 (30.97%) |
79 (29.48%) |
| Mohammed Qanyare Afrah |
33 (12.09%) |
38 (14.58%) |
– |
| Abdulrahman Jamma Barre |
18 (6.59%) |
* |
– |
| Abdulkassim Salat Hassan |
16 (5.86%) |
* |
– |
| Mohammed Hassan Adow |
14 (5.13%) |
* |
– |
| Muse Sudi Yalahow |
13 (4.76%) |
– |
– |
| Osman Jama Ali “Kalun” |
10 (3.66%) |
– |
– |
| 18 Others |
54 (19.78%) |
– |
– |
*Abdulrahman Jamma Barre, Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, and Mohammed Hassan Adow qualified to participate in the second round, but they withdrew from the competition.
30 January 2009 Presidential Election (Chosen by the Transitional Federal Parliament)
First Round
| Total Votes | 425 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 3 |
| Total Valid Votes | 422 |
Second Round
| Total Votes | 421 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 2 |
| Total Valid Votes | 419 |
| Candidate |
First Round |
Second Round |
| Sharif Sheikh Ahmed |
215 (50.95%) |
293 (69.93%) |
| Maslah Mohamed Siad Barre |
60 (14.22%) |
126 (30.07%) |
| Nur Hassan Hussein |
59 (13.98%) |
** |
| Ali Khalif Galaydh |
31 (7.35%) |
** |
| Mohamed Osman Aden |
25 (5.92%) |
** |
| Abdirahman Abdi Hussein |
10 (2.37%) |
** |
| Ahmed Hashi Mahmoud |
9 (2.13%) |
– |
| Awad Ahmed Asharo |
5 (1.18%) |
– |
| Musa Mualim Yusuf |
4 (0.95%) |
– |
| Yusuf Azhari |
2 (0.47%) |
– |
| Ali Hashi Dhoore |
2 (0.47%) |
– |
| Hassan Abshir Farah |
* |
– |
| Mohamed Mohamud Guled |
* |
– |
| Mohamed Ahmed Ali |
* |
– |
*Hassan Abshir Farah, Mohamed Mohamud Guled, Mohamed Ahmed Ali were all approved to contest the election, but they withdrew before the first round of balloting.
**Nur Hassan Hussein, Ali Khalif Galaydh, Mohamed Osman Aden, and Abdirahman Abdi Hussein qualified to participate in the second round, but they withdrew from the competition. With only two candidates remaining, a third round of voting was not required.
10 September 2012 Presidential Election (Chosen by the Federal Parliament)
First Round
| Total Votes | 271 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 1 |
| Total Valid Votes | 270 |
Second Round
| Total Votes | 271 |
| Abstentions/Invalid Votes | 2 |
| Total Valid Votes | 269 |
| Candidate |
First Round |
Second Round |
| Hassan Sheikh Mohamud |
60 (22.22%) |
190 (70.63%) |
| Sharif Sheikh Ahmed |
64 (23.70%) |
79 (29.37%) |
| Abdiweli Mohamed Ali |
30 (11.11%) |
* |
| Abdiqadir Osoble Ali |
27 (10.00%) |
* |
| Abdullahi Ahmed Adow |
24 (8.89%) |
– |
| Abdirahman Baadiyow |
21 (7.78%) |
– |
| Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo |
14 (5.19%) |
– |
| Ahmed Ismail Samatar |
8 (2.96%) |
– |
| Yusuf Garaad Omar |
8 (2.96%) |
– |
| Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh |
3 (1.11%) |
– |
| Mohamed Abdiweli Sheikh Yusuf |
3 (1.11%) |
– |
| Omar Salad Elmi |
2 (0.74%) |
– |
| Haji Mohamed Yasin Ismail |
2 (0.74%) |
– |
| Mohamed Abdullahi Omar |
1 (0.37%) |
– |
| Osman Mohamed Gaal |
1 (0.37%) |
– |
| Said Issa Mohamud |
1 (0.37%) |
– |
| Zakariye Mohamud Haji Abdi |
1 (0.37%) |
– |
| Mohamed Ahmed Salah |
0 (0.00%) |
– |
| Salad Ali Jelle |
0 (0.00%) |
– |
| Maslah Mohamed Siad Barre |
0 (0.00%) |
– |
| Ibrahim Ali Hussein |
0 (0.00%) |
– |
| Abdirahman Mohamed Abdi Hashi |
0 (0.00%) |
– |
*Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and Abdiqadir Osoble Ali qualified to participate in the second round, but they withdrew from the competition. With only two candidates remaining, a third round of voting was not required.
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