Côte d'Ivoire/Ivorian/Ivory Coast parliamentary election 2016 Result Dates Voting Live Opinion Exit Poll Candidates, Côte d'Ivoire National Assembly Election 2016 , Côte d'Ivoire parliamentary election 2016 Result Live Updates

Ivorian parliamentary election 2016 Result Live Voting Updates

1. Voters in Ivory Coast cast their ballots in polls on Sunday as the main opposition party FPI sought to break President Alassane Ouattara's monopoly.
2. The FPI is fielding 186 candidates for the 255 parliament seats and is expected to make a strong showing.
3. Ouattara's supporters held 85% of seats in the outgoing National Assembly.

Côte d'Ivoire/Ivorian/Ivory Coast parliamentary election 2016 Dates

Election Dates: 18 December 2016

Parliamentary elections will be held in Ivory Coast on 18 December 2016. As a new constitution was approved in an October referendum, the 255 members of the National Assembly will be elected for a four-year term instead of five-years term as up to now.

Population (as of May 19, 2015): 22,848,945

Ivory Coast Latest News Updates 

Ivory Coast approves new constitution, opposition dismisses the vote –Ivorian constitutional referendum, 2016

• The vote brought out 42 percent of the country's 6.3 million voters, 93 percent of whom approved the new constitution.
• An opposition leader quickly dismissed the official results as "fake".
• The new constitution is hoped to quell longstanding instability in the country.
• Violent episodes in the West African country include a coup in 1999, a civil war in 2002 that split the nation between its north and south and a bloody post-election crisis in 2010.

Choice	Votes	%
For	2,480,287	93.42
Against	174,714	6.58
Invalid/blank votes	23,600	–
Total	2,678,601	100
Registeredvoters/turnout	6,313,758	42.42

Electoral system

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Alassane OUATTARA
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Daniel Kablan DUNCAN

Ivorian parliamentary national assembly election Result 2011