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Elections in Yemen

Index Elections in Yemen

Elections in Yemen take place within the framework of a presidential system, with both the President and House of Representatives elected by the public. [1]

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Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi (‘Abdrabbuh Manṣūr Hādī; عبدربه منصور هادي Yemeni pronunciation:; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former Field Marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces.

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Aden Legislative Council election, 1955

Elections to the Legislative Council were held for the first time in the Colony of Aden in 1955.

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Aden Legislative Council election, 1959

Elections to the Legislative Council were held in the Colony of Aden on 4 January 1959.

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Aden Legislative Council election, 1964

Elections to the Legislative Council for the Colony of Aden were held on 16 October 1964.

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Al-Islah (Yemen)

The Yemeni Congregation for Reform, frequently called al-Islah (التجمع اليمني للإصلاح at-Tajammu’u al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ), is a Yemeni Islamist party founded in 1990 by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, Abdul Majeed al-Zindani, Mohammed al-Yadumi and Yahya Rassam.

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Ali Abdullah Saleh

Ali Abdullah Saleh (ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ; 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See:. However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947. – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of Yemen, from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990 to his resignation on 25 February 2012, following the Yemeni Revolution.

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Colony of Aden

The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony (مستعمرة عدن) was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963 located in the south of contemporary Yemen.

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Faisal Bin Shamlan

Faisal Othman Bin Shamlan (1934 – 1 January 2010) (فيصل عثمان بن شملان) (faiṣal bin šamlān) was a Yemeni intellectual, technocrat, political reformist and public figure.

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First-past-the-post voting

A first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting method is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

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General People's Congress (Yemen)

The General People's Congress (GPC; المؤتمر الشعبي العام; transliterated: Al-Mo'tamar Ash-Sha'abiy Al-'Aam) is a political party in Yemen.

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House of Representatives (Yemen)

The House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwaab) is the legislature of Yemen.

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Inter-Parliamentary Union

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU; Union Interparlementaire) is a global inter-parliamentary institution established in 1889 by Frédéric Passy (France) and William Randal Cremer (United Kingdom).

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Muslim Brotherhood

The Society of the Muslim Brothers (جماعة الإخوان المسلمين), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928.

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Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi

Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi (born 1953 in Sha'ab, Lahj, Yemen) is a Yemeni politician who was a candidate in the 1999 presidential election in Yemen.

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Next Yemeni parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections have not been held in Yemen since 2003.

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North Yemen

North Yemen is the geographic area named the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990), its predecessor, the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962), and their predecessors that exercised sovereignty over the territory that is now the north-western part of the state of Yemen in southern Arabia.

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North Yemen Civil War

The North Yemen Civil War (ثورة 26 سبتمبر, Thawra 26 Sabtambar, "26 September Revolution") was fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between royalist partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic.

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One-party state

A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of state in which one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution.

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President of Yemen

The President of the Republic of Yemen is the head of state of Yemen.

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Presidential system

A presidential system is a democratic and republican system of government where a head of government leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch.

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Psephos

Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive is an online archive of election statistics, and claims to be the world's largest online resource of such information.

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South Yemen

South Yemen is the common English name for the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية الشعبية), which existed from 1967 to 1990 as a state in the Middle East in the southern and eastern provinces of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the island of Socotra.

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South Yemeni parliamentary election, 1978

Parliamentary elections were held in South Yemen between 16 and 18 December 1978.

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South Yemeni parliamentary election, 1986

Parliamentary elections were held in South Yemen between 28 and 30 October 1986, having originally been scheduled for 1983, but later postponed.

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially known as the Republic of Yemen (al-Jumhūriyyah al-Yamaniyyah), is an Arab sovereign state in Western Asia at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Yemen Arab Republic parliamentary election, 1971

Parliamentary elections were held in the Yemen Arab Republic in February and March 1971.

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Yemen Arab Republic parliamentary election, 1988

Parliamentary elections were held in the Yemen Arab Republic on 5 July 1988.

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Yemeni constitutional referendum, 1991

A constitutional referendum was held in Yemen on 15 and 16 May 1991.

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Yemeni constitutional referendum, 2001

A constitutional referendum was held in Yemen on 20 February 2001.

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Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993

Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 1993, the first after Yemeni unification.

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Yemeni parliamentary election, 1997

Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 1997.

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Yemeni parliamentary election, 2003

Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 2003, having originally scheduled for 2001.

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Yemeni presidential election, 1999

Direct presidential elections were held in Yemen for the first time on 23 September 1999.

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Yemeni presidential election, 2006

Presidential elections were held in Yemen on 20 September 2006, alongside local elections.

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Yemeni presidential election, 2012

Presidential elections were held in Yemen on 21 February 2012.

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Yemeni Revolution

The Yemeni Revolution, initially named the Yemeni uprising (intifada), and also known as the Yemeni Revolution of Dignity followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and other Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Yemeni Socialist Party

The Yemeni Socialist Party (الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani, YSP) is a political party in Yemen.

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Yemeni unification

Yemeni unification took place on May 22, 1990, when the area of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (also known as South Yemen) was united with the Yemen Arab Republic (also known as North Yemen), forming the Republic of Yemen (known as simply Yemen).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Yemen

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