General Information
At stake in this election:
- The office of President of Senegal
Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Abdoulaye WADE *
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene NDIAYE
- Assembly: Senegal has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) with 120 seats.
* The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term which is renewable once.
Description of electoral system:
- The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
- In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), 55 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms and 65 members are elected by majority vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.
Main Candidates in the Presidential race:
- Ousmane Tanor DIENG
- Party: Socialst Party of Senegal/Parti Socialiste du Senegal
- Cheikh Bamba DIEYE
- Party: Front for Socialism and Democracy/Front pour le Socialisme et la Democratie
- Ibrahima FALL
- Party: Independent
- Moustapha NIASSE
- Party: Alliance of Progressive Forces/Alliance des Forces de Progres
- Macky SALL
- Party: Alliance for the Republic/Alliance pour la Republique
- Idrissa SECK
- Party: Independent
- Abdoulaye WADE
- Party: Senegalese Democratic Party/Parti Democratique Senegalais
Population and number of registered voters:
- Population: 13,780,108 (2012)
- Registered Voters: 5,105,033 (2012)
Gender Data:
· Female Population: 7,027,056 (2012)
· Is Senegal a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (29 July 1980)
· Has Senegal ratified CEDAW: Yes (5 February 1985)
· Gender Quota: Yes[2]
· Female candidates in this election: Yes
· Number of Female Parliamentarians: 27 (following the 2007 elections)
· Human Development Index Position: 170 (2014)
· Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Medium (2014)
Disability Data:
· Is Senegal a signatory to CRPD: Yes (25 April 2007)
· Has Senegal ratified CRPD: Yes (7 September 2010)
· Population with a disability: 2,067,016 (est.)