| Country: | Mauritania |
| Type: | presidential |
| Flag Year: | 1959 |
| Previous Election: | 2009 Mauritanian presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 2009 |
| Next Election: | 2019 Mauritanian presidential election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Registered: | 1,328,168 |
| Needed Votes: | 50%+ |
| Turnout: | 56.46% (5.05pp) |
| Image1: | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz August 2014 (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz |
| Party1: | Union for the Republic (Mauritania) |
| Popular Vote1: | 577,995 |
| Percentage1: | 81.89% |
| Nominee2: | Biram Dah Abeid |
| Party2: | Radical Party for a Global Action |
| Popular Vote2: | 61,218 |
| Percentage2: | 8.67% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Abdel Aziz |
| Before Party: | Union for the Republic (Mauritania) |
| After Election: | Abdel Aziz |
| After Party: | Union for the Republic (Mauritania) |
Presidential elections were held in Mauritania on 21 June 2014, with a second round planned for 5 July if no candidate received more than 50% of the vote.[1] The result was a first round victory for incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the Union for the Republic, who received 82% of the vote. Most of the opposition parties boycotted the election.[2]
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was the incumbent President of Mauritania at the time of the election and had been in office since 2009. A career soldier and high-ranking officer, he was a leading figure in the August 2005 coup that deposed President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, and in August 2008 he led another coup, which toppled President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. Following the 2008 coup, Abdel Aziz became President of the High Council of State as part of what was described as a political transition leading to a new election.[3] He resigned from that post in April 2009 in order to stand as a candidate in the July 2009 presidential election, which he won. He stood as a candidate again in the 2014 election.
Although boycotted by opposition groups, the African Union praised the elections for taking place relatively peacefully.[2] Turnout was estimated at 56%.[2]