| Country: | Mauritania |
| Election Name: | 2023 Nouakchott regional election |
| Previous Election: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2028 |
| Election Date: | 13 May 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | All 37 seats in the Regional Council of Nouakchott |
| Majority Seats: | 19 |
| Outgoing Members: | outgoing members |
| Elected Members: | elected members |
| Turnout: | 62.75% (0.98pp) |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party1: | El Insaf |
| Leader1: | Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick |
| Percentage1: | 35.41 |
| Seats1: | 13 |
| Last Election1: | 19 |
| Party2: | National Rally for Reform and Development |
| Leader2: | El Hacen Ould Ileh |
| Percentage2: | 18.66 |
| Seats2: | 7 |
| Last Election2: | 6 |
| Party3: | Hope Mauritania |
| Leader3: | Abderrahmane Ould Ehdaye |
| Percentage3: | 6.01 |
| Seats3: | 2 |
| Last Election3: | 0 |
| Party4: | Sawab–RAG |
| Leader4: | Salem Dekle |
| Percentage4: | 4.78 |
| Seats4: | 2 |
| Last Election4: | 0 |
| Party5: | National Democratic Alliance (Mauritania) |
| Leader5: | Ahmed Ould Salihine |
| Percentage5: | 4.42 |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Last Election5: | 0 |
| Party6: | El Islah |
| Leader6: | Ahmed Ould Cheikh Sidiya |
| Percentage6: | 2.89 |
| Seats6: | 1 |
| Last Election6: | 0 |
| Party7: | State of Justice Coalition |
| Leader7: | Ghary Ould Amah |
| Percentage7: | 2.85 |
| Seats7: | 1 |
| Last Election7: | 0 |
| Party8: | Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal |
| Leader8: | Mamoudou Jaffar Ball |
| Percentage8: | 2.47 |
| Seats8: | 1 |
| Last Election8: | 0 |
| Party9: | Union for Democracy and Progress |
| Leader9: | Abderrahmane Ould Babah |
| Percentage9: | 2.02 |
| Seats9: | 1 |
| Last Election9: | 0 |
| Party10: | National Cohesion for Rights and the Construction of Generations |
| Leader10: | Sidi Ould Eilal |
| Percentage10: | 2.02 |
| Seats10: | 1 |
| Last Election10: | 0 |
| Party11: | Union of the Forces of Progress |
| Leader11: | Mahmoud Moude |
| Percentage11: | 1.93 |
| Seats11: | 1 |
| Last Election11: | 3 |
| Party12: | Rally of Democratic Forces |
| Leader12: | Cheikhany S'Neid Oumou |
| Percentage12: | 1.74 |
| Seats12: | 1 |
| Last Election12: | 0 |
| Party13: | APP |
| Leader13: | Taleb Ould Mohamed El Abd |
| Percentage13: | 1.65 |
| Seats13: | 1 |
| Last Election13: | 0 |
| Party14: | Party of Unity and Development |
| Leader14: | Bouye Taghiyou Ellah |
| Percentage14: | 1.61 |
| Seats14: | 1 |
| Last Election14: | 0 |
| Party15: | El Karama |
| Leader15: | El El Salem |
| Percentage15: | 1.53 |
| Seats15: | 1 |
| Last Election15: | 0 |
| Party16: | Mauritanian Party of Union and Change |
| Leader16: | Mohamed Ahmed Ould Khaye |
| Percentage16: | 1.42 |
| Seats16: | 1 |
| Last Election16: | 2 |
| President of the Regional Council | |
| Before Election: | Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick |
| Before Party: | El Insaf |
| After Election: | Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick |
| After Party: | El Insaf |
Regional elections were held on 13 May 2023 to elect the 37 members of the Regional Council of Nouakchott, as part of the 2023 Mauritanian regional elections.
Regional councils were first elected in Mauritania in 2018 following a 2017 constitutional referendum that abolished the Senate, replacing it with regional councils in every wilaya and a single one for the city of Nouakchott.
Those first 2018 regional elections led to the ruling party Union for the Republic (which rebranded as El Insaf in July 2022) to barely take control of the Nouakchott's Regional Council. Ex-mayor of Tevragh-Zeina Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick, running for the UPR, won a narrow majority on the second round against Mohamed Jamil Ould Mansour, the opposition-backed candidate and previous leader of the Islamist Tewassoul party.
On 26 September 2022 an agreement between the Ministry of the Interior and Decentralisation and all political parties registered in Mauritania was reached in order to renew the Independent National Electoral Commission and hold the elections in the first semester of 2023, with parties justifying it due to climatic and logistical conditions.[1] [2]
Mint Abdel Malick was presented as candidate for re-election by El Insaf on 20 March 2023 together with the rest of candidates to head the regional councils of the country.[3]
On 26 September 2022 all Mauritanian political parties reached an agreement sponsored by the Ministry of Interior and Decentralisation to reform the election system ahead of the upcoming elections after weeks of meetings between all parties.[2]
In this election, regional councils will be elected in a single round using proportional representation through the largest remainder method, with no threshold being applied. The head of the list that gets the most votes will automatically become president of the regional council.[2] [4]