2023 Emirati parliamentary election

2023 Emirati parliamentary elections
United Arab Emirates
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20 of the 40 seats in the Federal National Council
Turnout44.00% (Increase 9.19pp)
Party Seats +/–
Independents

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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker before Speaker after
Saqr Ghobash Saqr Ghobash

Parliamentary elections were held in the United Arab Emirates on 7 October 2023 to elect 20 of the 40 members of the Federal National Council.[1][2][3] As political parties are banned in the UAE, all candidates run as independents.[4] The election was the first to be conducted completely electronically, 92.69% of voters chose to vote remotely in the election cycle.[2][3]

Electoral system

The Federal National Council consists of 40 members, 20 of whom are appointed by the rulers of each emirate.[5][6] and 20 are elected by single non-transferable vote in seven electoral colleges based on the emirates. The colleges of Abu Dhabi and Dubai elect four members each, the colleges of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah three each, and the colleges of Ajman, Fujairah and Umm al-Quwain two each.[7][8] Since the 2019 election, the FNC has a gender quota, requiring 50% of FNC members to be women.[4]

Not all citizens are eligible to vote. Instead, voters are handpicked and chosen through an electoral college, the membership of which was expanded from 337,738 in 2019 to 398,879 in 2023.[9][10]

Results

Preliminary results were released on 7 October, and certified on 13 October.[8] The national election committees of all emirates, except the committees of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, allocated half of their elected seats to the highest voted for candidates of each gender to meet their gender quotas; the appointed seats for each emirate need to ultimately achieve the quota.

PartyVotes%Seats
Independents20
Total20
Total votes175,487
Registered voters/turnout398,87944.00
Source: The National

Elected members

Emirate Elected members Votes Notes
Abu Dhabi Salem Al Ameri 4,509
Hilal Al Kaabi 3,671
Mudhia Al Menhali 2,448
Hashima Al Afari 1,769
Dubai Humaid Al Tayer 2,426
Ahmed Khoury 1,749
Maryam Majid bin Thaneya 1,064 Re-elected
Amna Ali Salem Ali Al Odaidi 617
Sharjah Mohammed Al Dhouri 2,489
Adnan Al Hammadi 2,335 Re-elected
Walid Al Mansouri 2,013
Ras al-Khaimah Saeed Al Nuaimi 3,866
Sultan Al Zaabi 3,720
Salem Al Ali 3,513
Ajman Majid Al Mazrouei 3,787
Aisha Al Marri 390
Fujairah Sheikh Saeed Al Sharqi 8,985
Aisha Al Dhanhan 1,009
Umm al-Quwain Mohammed Al Ali 1,036
Mona Al Ali 280
Source: The National, WAM

Voter turnout

By emirate

Emirate Eligible voters Votes cast Turnout
Abu Dhabi 126,779 56,471 44.54%
Dubai 73,181 16,909 23.11%
Sharjah 72,946 29,996 41.11%
Ras al-Khaimah 62,197 35,357 56.85%
Ajman 12,600 7,283 57.80%
Fujairah 43,599 24,911 57.13%
Umm al-Quwain 7,577 4,561 60.20%
Total 398,879 175,488 44.00%
Source: WAM

By gender

Gender Eligible voters % of eligible voters % of turnout
Male 194,111 48.67% 55.86%
Female 204,768 51.22% 44.14%
Source: WAM[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Federal National Council elections to take place on October 7". The National. 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  2. ^ a b "Early voting opens in UAE parliamentary elections". Middle East Monitor. 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  3. ^ a b Amir, Salam Al (2023-10-08). "Early results of Federal National Council election announced". The National. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  4. ^ a b Abbas, Waheed. "UAE elections: All you need to know about FNC polls in 2023". Khaleej Times. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  5. ^ "A vote for the country's future". Gulf News. 25 September 2011.
  6. ^ "About the Federal National Council". Khaleej Times. 4 July 2011. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015.
  7. ^ Electoral system IPU
  8. ^ a b Federal National Council elections: how to vote The National, 30 September 2019
  9. ^ FNC candidate registration centres launched Gulf News, 7 August 2019
  10. ^ "Federal National Council elections to take place on October 7". The National. 2023-07-10.
  11. ^ "National Election Committee announces electoral college lists for FNC elections 2023". Emirates News Agency. 2023-08-07. For gender electoral college breakdown (exact numbers in images (in Arabic)). Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  12. ^ "إعلان نتائج انتخابات المجلس الوطني الاتحادي 2023" [Announcement of Federal National Council Election Results 2023] (video). youtube.com (in Arabic). Emirates News Agency. at 0:48 (for election turnout gender demographics). Retrieved 1 November 2023.