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2025 Guinean presidential election

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2025 Guinean presidential election
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28 December 2025
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Nominee Mamady Doumbouya Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé [fr]
Party Independent FRONDEG [fr]
Popular vote 4,594,262 349,129
Percentage 86.72% 6.59%
President before election

Mamady Doumbouya
Military

Elected President

Mamady Doumbouya
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Guinea on 28 December 2025. They are the first to be held in the country since the 2021 Guinean coup d'état that installed general Mamady Doumbouya as president.[1] Doumbouya won by a landslide margin amid criticism by opposition groups and the United Nations over the conduct of the election.

Background

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The election month was announced by Prime Minister Bah Oury at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 12 May 2025.[1] In June 2025, the ruling military junta established the Directorate General of Elections (DGE) to oversee the election.[2] The election was scheduled for 28 December 2025 by a decree read by Doumbouya on national television on 27 September 2025.[3]

Electoral system

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Candidates were required to submit a deposit of 875 million Guinean francs ($100,000).[4] Candidates were also required to be residing in Guinea and aged between 40 and 80 years.[5] A runoff election is required should no candidate win a majority.[6]

Candidates

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A total of 11 people submitted their candidacies before the Supreme Court by the deadline of candidate registration on 3 November 2025. These included:[5]

On 8 November, the Supreme Court released a provisional list of nine candidates which included Doumbouya and Yero Baldé [fr] from the Democratic Front of Guinea [fr] but excluded Kouyaté and Kaba.[9][10]

Conduct

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Doumbouya's campaign highlighted major infrastructure projects and reforms launched under his rule, while Yero Baldé ran on themes of anti-corruption and economic growth.[10]

Nearly 12,000 police officers were mobilized to provide security during the election. A day before the vote, authorities said that security forces "neutralised" an armed group with "subversive intentions threatening national security" after gunshots were reported in the Sonfonia neighborhood of Conakry.[10]

Several opposition groups called for a boycott of the election, with exiled opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo calling the vote "an electoral charade" aimed at giving legitimacy to "the planned confiscation of power". United Nations rights commissioner Volker Turk said the campaign was marred by severe restrictions, "intimidation of opposition actors, apparently politically motivated enforced disappearances, and constraints on media freedom" that threatened to undermine the credibility of the election.[11]

Following the election, opposition candidate Faya Millimono said the vote was marred by "systematic fraudulent practices" and restrictions on observers monitoring the voting and counting processes.[6] Another candidate, Yero Balde, alleged that ballot stuffing had taken place and that his representatives were prevented from accessing vote-counting centres. The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution also said that a "huge majority of Guineans chose to boycott the electoral charade".[12] Balde subsequently filed a petition before the Supreme Court accusing the DGE of electoral fraud, but withdrew the complaint on 3 January 2026.[13]

Results

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The DGE declared Mamady Doumbouya as the winner on 30 December, having won 86.72% of the vote, followed by Yéro Baldé with 6.59%.[14][15] The results were validated by the Supreme Court on 4 January 2026.[16]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Mamady DoumbouyaIndependent4,594,26286.72
Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé [fr]Democratic Front of Guinea [fr]349,1296.59
Faya MillimonoLiberal Bloc108,1772.04
Makalé CamaraFront for the National Alliance [fr]84,1751.59
Ibrahima Abé SyllaNew Generation for Building the Republic46,2610.87
Mohamed Nabé [fr]Alliance for Renewal and Progress44,1020.83
Abdoulaye KouroumaRally for Resistance and Development29,5290.56
Bouna Keita [fr]Rally for a Prosperous Guinea27,5290.52
Mohamed Sherif TounkaraIndependent14,7670.28
Total5,297,931100.00
Valid votes5,297,93194.46
Invalid/blank votes310,5895.54
Total votes5,608,520100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,768,45882.86
Source: Direction Générale des Élections[17]

Aftermath

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Doumbouya was inaugurated as the civilian president of Guinea on 17 January 2026. On 23 January, the African Union lifted sanctions imposed on Guinea following the 2021 Guinean coup d'état, citing the transition to civilian rule under the 2025 election.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Guinea: General and presidential elections to be held in December 2025". Africanews. 14 May 2025. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Guinea's military junta sets up election body for upcoming votes". AP News. 15 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  3. ^ "La présidentielle en Guinée aura lieu le 28 décembre". Jeune Afrique (in French). Retrieved 28 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Guinea's coup leader enters presidential race". BBC. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Guinea's junta leader enters the December presidential race". Africanews. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Guinea coup leader Doumbouya elected president in provisional results". France 24. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  7. ^ a b c "Guinea's junta leader decides to run for president 4 years after leading a coup". AP News. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Monday marks final day for Guinea presidential election candidacies". Africanews. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  9. ^ "Guinea's supreme court releases provisional list of presidential candidates". AP News. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  10. ^ a b c "Polls open in Guinea with junta leader favoured to win first presidential vote since 2021 coup". Africanews. 28 December 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  11. ^ "Guinea votes in first polls since 2021 coup, military leader likely to win". Al Jazeera. 28 December 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  12. ^ "Guinea junta chief Doumboya elected president: election commission". Al Jazeera. 28 December 2025. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  13. ^ "Guinea's junta leader is confirmed president-elect after first vote since a 2021 coup". AP News. 5 January 2026. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  14. ^ "Junta leader is declared the winner of Guinea's presidential election". AP News. 31 December 2025. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  15. ^ "Guinea's junta leader is confirmed president-elect after first vote since a 2021 coup". AP News. 5 January 2026. Archived from the original on 7 January 2026. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  16. ^ "Guinea Supreme Court confirms Doumbouya's presidential election victory". Africanews. 5 January 2026. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  17. ^ Cérémonie de proclamation officielle des résultats définitifs de l’élection présidentielle du 28 décembre 2025 (Video) (in French). Direction Générale des Élections. 4 January 2026. Event occurs at 1:10:01.
  18. ^ "Guinea: African Union lifts sanctions". Africanews. 23 January 2026. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
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