IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: Guinea-Bissau

Name	Official Name	Type
Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly	Assembleia Nacional Popular	Assembly
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	None	Head of State

Description of government structure:

Chief of State: President Umaro Sissoko EMBALÓ (since 27 February 2020)
Head of Government: Prime Minister Rui Duarte BARROS (since 20 December 2023)
Assembly: Guinea-Bissau has a unicameral People's National Assembly (Assembleia Nacional Popular) with 102 seats.

Description of electoral system:

The President is directly elected by absolute majority vote in up to two election rounds. The President may serve up to two 5-year terms consecutively.
The Prime Minister is appointed by the president in consultation with party leaders.
In the National People’s Assembly, 100 members are directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed-list proportional representation vote. The remaining 2 members are directly elected from two single-seat overseas constituencies (Africa and Europe).

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly	1999-11-28	432,604	525,329	82.35
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	1999-11-28	371,025	503,007	73.76
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2000-01-16	361,609	503,007	71.89
Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly	2004-03-28	449,924	605,018	74.37
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2005-06-19	471,843	538,471	87.63
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2005-07-24	422,978	538,472	78.55
Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly	2008-11-16	486,873	593,739	82.0
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2009-06-28	356,340	593,782	60.01
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2009-07-26	354,232	593,782	59.66
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2012-03-18	326,399	593,765	54.97
Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly	2014-04-13	574,480	800,000	71.81
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2014-04-13	615,654	800,000	76.96
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2014-05-18	606,536	775,508	78.21
Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly	2019-03-10	645,085	761,676	84.69
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2019-11-24	-	-	-
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2019-12-08	-	-	-
Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly	2023-06-04	-	884,134	-
Bissau-Guinean Presidency	2024-12-31	-	-	-

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