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2003 Yemeni parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Yemen
election_date	27 April 2003
previous_election	[1997](1997-yemeni-parliamentary-election)
next_election	Next
seats_for_election	All 301 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats	151
turnout	76.58% ( 15.62pp)
party1	General People's Congress (Yemen)	leader1 = Ali Abdullah Saleh	seats1 = 229	last_election1 = 187	percentage1 = 57.79
party2	Al-Islah (Yemen)	leader2 = Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar	last_election2 = 53	seats2 = 45	percentage2 = 22.51
party3	Yemeni Socialist Party	leader3 = Ali Salih 'Ubad Muqbil	last_election3 = new	seats3 = 7	percentage3 = 4.86
party4	Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation	leader4 = Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi	last_election4 = 3	seats4 = 3	percentage4 = 1.83
party5	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region	leader5 =	last_election5 = 2	seats5 = 2	percentage5 = 0.68
party6	GPC–Al-Islah	leader6 = –	last_election6 = New	seats6 = 1	percentage6 = 0.42	party6_link = no
party7	Independents	leader7 = –	last_election7 = 54	seats7 = 14	percentage7 = 10.35
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Abdul Qadir Bajamal
before_party	General People's Congress (Yemen)
after_election	Abdul Qadir Bajamal
after_party	General People's Congress (Yemen)

Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 2003 to elect all 301 members of the House of Representatives for a six-year term. The elections had originally been scheduled to take place in 2001. The General People's Congress of President Ali Abdullah Saleh received 58% of the vote, increasing its majority in the parliament with 229 MPs.

As of , these remain the most recent parliamentary elections in Yemen, as the country fell into civil war eleven years later.

Campaign

The elections were conducted under a new electoral code, the General Elections and Referendum Law, which was adopted by Parliament in November 2000 and approved in a national referendum in February 2001. All 301 members of Parliament were elected from single-member constituencies using a first-past-the-post voting system. The official campaign period lasted from 8 April to 26 April.

Nineteen parties fielded a total of 991 candidates for the 301 seats in the House of Representatives, in addition to 405 independent candidates. Over eight million Yemeni citizens were registered to vote, with the number of registered women voters almost doubling since 1997 (3.4 million compared to 1.8 million).

Conduct

Although the election was deemed to be more free and fair than in previous years, there were still concerns about the conduct of the vote. The National Democratic Institute noted that: :The atmosphere of anxiety in the run-up to the elections caused by fears of violence, as well as heavy-handed and coercive measures on and after election day by elements of the ruling GPC in many polling stations across the country are troubling. There were credible reports of election law violations including political intimidation, underage voting, improper behavior by security forces, vote buying and obstruction by ruling party counting commissioners.

Results

The General People's Congress was immediately joined by 12 independents. Results in three seats were invalidated. Despite the increase in the number of women voters, only one woman was elected, down from two in the 1997 elections.

On 10 May 2003, the new House of Representatives convened its first meeting and re-elected Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar as its speaker.

References

"Yemen Parliament".
[https://www.ciaonet.org/attachments/8728/uploads Yemen between Democratization and Prolonged Power] Colombia International Affairs Online

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