19 October (first round)
26 October (second round) 2006 → 70 1 6 2 | 70 seats, 67.6% 1 seat, 1.4% 64 3 51 9.6 | |
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Parliamentary elections were held in Mauritania on 19 and 26 October, 2001. The result was a landslide victory for President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya's Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal, which took 64 of the 81 seats.
Background
Previous elections since the reintroduction of multi-party politics in the early 1990s has seen opposition boycotts due to accusations of the incumbent government rigging the results. However, a new computerised ID system was introduced before the 2001 elections, resulting in opposition parties contesting the elections.
References
Mauritanian parliamentary election, 2001 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA