At stake in this election:

• 120 seats in the National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Abdoulaye WADE *
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Mame Madior BOYE
• Assembly: Senegal has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale) with 140 seats.

* The president is elected by majority vote, if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a run-off will be held between the top two candidates. A referendum passed on January 7, 2001 shortened the presidential term from seven to five years.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
• Prime Minister is appointed by the president.
• In the National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale), 65 members are elected by simple majority vote within constituencies to serve 5-year terms and 55 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***

*** The assembly currently has 140 seats, but will be reduced to 120 seats, under the terms of a new constitution approved by popular referendum in January 2001.

Main parties in the electoral race:

• Coalition: SOPI
  • Leader: Abdoulaye WADE
  • Seats won in this election: 89
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: Alliance of Progressive Forces (AFP)
  • Leader: Moustapha NIASSE
  • Seats won in this election: 11
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: Socialist Party (PS)
  • Leader: Ousmane Tanor DIENG
  • Seats won in this election: 10
  • Seats won in last election: 93
• Party: African Party for Democracy and Socialism (AJ/PADS)
  • Leader: Landing SAVANE
  • Seats won in this election: 2
  • Seats won in last election: 4
• Party: Union for Democratic Revival (URD)
  • Leader: Djibo LAITY KA
  • Seats won in this election: 3
  • Seats won in last election: 11
• Party: Other Parties
  • Leader: N/A
  • Seats won in this election: 5
  • Seats won in last election: N/A

Last Parliamentary election:

• Parliamentary elections were last held on May 28, 1998.
  Seats decided in the last election: 140

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 10,118,078 (2001)
• Registered Voters: 2,808,253 (2001)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 5,144,043 (2001)

·         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: 23 (following the 2001 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: 1,517,711 (est.)