Behind the numbers: Maldives parliamentary elections
The MDP took 65 seats with 46 percent of the vote.
15 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM
The official results of the parliamentary elections announced last Thursday confirmed a historic landslide victory for the Maldivian Democratic Party.
It was the first time a single party won a majority of the People’s Majlis since the first multi-party elections in 2009.
The turnout was 81.3 percent with 215,053 out of 264,442 eligible voters. There were 210,253 valid votes.
Plurality for MDP
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