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Parliamentary election in Yemen
1993 Yemeni parliamentary election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections
were held in Yemen on 27 April 1993,
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the first after
Yemeni unification
. The
General People's Congress
emerged as the largest party, winning 123 of the 301 seats.
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Voter turnout was 84.8%.
Electoral system
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The country continued to use the electoral system of North Yemen, with the 301 members of Parliament elected in single-member constituencies by
first-past-the-post voting
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Results
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Party
| Votes
| %
| Seats
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| General People's Congress
| 640,523
| 28.69
| 123
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| Yemeni Socialist Party
| 413,984
| 18.54
| 56
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| Al-Islah
| 382,545
| 17.14
| 62
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| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
| 80,362
| 3.60
| 7
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| Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation
| 52,303
| 2.34
| 1
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| Party of Truth
| 18,659
| 0.84
| 2
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| League of Sons of Yemen
| 16,155
| 0.72
| 0
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| Nasserist Reform Organisation
| 6,191
| 0.28
| 1
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| Democratic Nasserist Party
| 4,576
| 0.20
| 1
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| National Democratic Front
| 3,793
| 0.17
| 0
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| Union of Popular Forces
| 2,662
| 0.12
| 0
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| Unionist Assembly
| 1,855
| 0.08
| 0
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| Liberation Front
| 1,706
| 0.08
| 0
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| September Democrats
| 532
| 0.02
| 0
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| National Front Popular Organisation
| 148
| 0.01
| 0
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| Social Nationalist Party ? Yemen
| 124
| 0.01
| 0
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| Revolutionary Democrats
| 78
| 0.00
| 0
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| Democratic Movement
| 71
| 0.00
| 0
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| The (Legal) Union
| 30
| 0.00
| 0
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| National Cohesion Conference
| 16
| 0.00
| 0
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| Democratic Front
| 15
| 0.00
| 0
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| Independents
| 606,201
| 27.15
| 47
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Vacant
| | 1
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Total
| 2,232,529
| 100.00
| 301
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Valid votes
| 2,232,529
| 97.91
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Invalid/blank votes
| 47,712
| 2.09
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Total votes
| 2,280,241
| 100.00
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Registered voters/turnout
| 2,688,323
| 84.82
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Source:
Al-Bab
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References
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- ^
Dieter Nohlen
, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001)
Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I
, p301
ISBN
0-19-924958-X
- ^
Nohlen et al., p309
- ^
Nohlen et al., p298
External links
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