Country: | Maldives |
Previous Election: | 2009 |
Next Election: | 2019 |
Election Date: | 22 March 2014 |
Seats For Election: | All 85 seats in the People's Majlis |
Majority Seats: | 43 |
Party1: | Maldivian Democratic Party |
Leader1: | Mohamed Nasheed |
Last Election1: | 26 |
Seats1: | 26 |
Percentage1: | 40.79 |
Party2: | Progressive Party of Maldives |
Leader2: | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom |
Last Election2: | New |
Seats2: | 33 |
Percentage2: | 27.72 |
Party3: | Jumhooree Party |
Leader3: | Qasim Ibrahim |
Last Election3: | 1 |
Seats3: | 15 |
Percentage3: | 13.56 |
Party4: | Maldives Development Alliance |
Leader4: | Ahmed Shiyam Mohamad |
Last Election4: | New |
Seats4: | 5 |
Percentage4: | 4.04 |
Party5: | Adhaalath Party |
Leader5: | Sheikh Imran Abdulla |
Last Election5: | 0 |
Seats5: | 1 |
Percentage5: | 2.66 |
Party6: | Independents |
Leader6: | – |
Last Election6: | 13 |
Seats6: | 5 |
Percentage6: | 10.93 |
Speaker | |
Before Election: | Abdulla Shahid |
Before Party: | Maldivian Democratic Party |
Posttitle: | Speaker of People's Majlis |
After Election: | Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed |
After Party: | PPM |
Parliamentary elections were held in the Maldives on 22 March 2014.[1] The Progressive Party of Maldives and its allies won 53 seats.
The elections were held after the controversial presidential elections in which Abdulla Yameen defeated Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldivian Democratic Party. Following the elections the Supreme Court dismissed the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Election Commission for contempt of court. The MDP protested, but did not boycott the parliamentary elections.
One the day before the elections Qasim Ibrahim of the Jumhooree Party requested that the Supreme Court to delay the elections due to the Election Commission not having a full complement of members. However, his request was rejected.
The 85 seats in the People's Majlis were elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system.[2] The Majlis was expanded from 77 to 85 seats.