Al Urdun Al Jadid Research Center (UJRC)

Scope of countries

For specific information on individual countries, please visit the country pages below

·         Algeria

·         Bahrain

·         Comoros

·         Djibouti

·         Egypt

·         Iraq

·         Jordan

·         Kuwait

·         Lebanon

·         Libya

·         Mauritania

·         Morocco

·         Oman

·         Palestine

·         Qatar

·         Saudi Arabia

·         Somalia

·         Sudan

·         Syrian Arab Republic

·         Tunisia

·         United Arab Emirates

·         Yemen

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Welcome to the Regional Center page for the region of the Arab world. This page is facilitated by UJRC, an associated member of the ACE network. Here you will find updated information about the region, such as electoral news, case studies and election-related links. To access this material, use the menus to the right. If you need information about other regions, select another Regional Centre from the drop-down menu on the left side.

About UJRC

Al Urdun Al Jadid Research Center (UJRC) is an independent think tank established in 1990. It works for democratic development in Jordan and the Arab world through conducting scientific research, managing debates and training, and organizing workshops and conferences with regional and international institutions. UJRC possesses an active Elections and Parliament program which analyses elections in Jordan, the Arab region, and the world at large.
 

Comoros Legislative election 2009

Legislative elections was held in Comoros on 2 August 2009; though originally set for July 2009, they were postponed until after a constitutional referendum was held to propose extension to the current presidential term for two years to hold all elections at the same time in 2011, as well as reform the constitutional structure of the Comoros to save money. Read more the constitutional referendum.

Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election 2009

The Iraqi Kurdistan legislative elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan were eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. Read more

Iraqi Kurdistan presidential election 2009

The Iraqi Kurdistan presidential elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the Iraqi Kurdistan parliamentary elections of 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan were eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the president of Iraqi Kurdistan was chosen directly through popular votes. Read more

Mauritania Presidential Elections 2009

General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who ousted Mauritania's first democratically elected leader in a coup last year, has won the desert nation's presidential election in the first round with 52.58 of the vote in provisional results. The opposition dismissed the result as a "charade". Read more

more information on the election at Wikipedia. Click here

 Mauritania's election, the first since a coup in the desert state last August, was due to take place on June 6 but opposition parties had said they would boycott the poll in protest at the military government's election timetable. Read more

Kuwait Local Elections 2009

Turnout was lukeworm early Thursday as polls opened for the 2009 Municipal Council elections, the second largest in volume after the National Assembly (parliament) which was held on May. Read More

Morocco Local Elections 2009

Modernity and Authenticity Party wins around 20 percent of nearly 28,000 Moroccan local council seats.
A new party led by a politician close to Morocco's King Mohammed VI emerged victorious in the local elections on June 12. Read more

Lebanese Parliamentary elections 2009

Parliamentary elections were held in Lebanon on 7 June 2009.

Preliminary results indicated that the turnout had been as high as 55%. The March 14 Alliance garnered 71 seats in the 128-member parliament, while the March 8 Alliance won 57 seats. This result is virtually the same as the result from the election in 2005. Read more

Mauritania Presidential Elections 2009

Postponement of elections

A presidential decree was issued on 5 June to postpone the presidential elections scheduled to take place on 6 June.  The election date will be determined later by a decree.  

Kuwait Parliamentary Elections 2009

Low turnout at parliamentary election
Kuwaitis voted on Saturday with little hope that their third election in three years will end a power struggle between parliament and the ruling family cabinet that has held up key economic reforms. Turnout was low as expected. Read full news

Algeria Presidential Elections 2009

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won 90.24 percent of the vote in a presidential election, extending his hold over Algeria, an oil producer with a lingering Islamist insurgency.
The result gives Bouteflika, 72, a third five-year term as president and leaves him in power until 2014. Read More

Iraq Provincial Elections 2009

Governorate or provincial elections were held in Iraq on 31 January 2009, to replace the local councils in fourteen of the eighteen governorates of Iraq that were elected in the Iraqi governorate elections of 2005, where 14,431 candidates - including 3,912 women - contested 444 seats. The candidates came from over 400 parties - 75% of which were newly formed. Read more on the elections and the results.

Lebanese Presidential Elections

Lebanon's parliament elected a new president on 25 May, 08, taking a step to stabilize the country after a long, violent political crisis. Read more

Regional Election Spotlight 

Forthcoming Elections

Tunisia| Presidential

October 2009

Tunisia| Parliamentary 

October 2009

Algeria| Parliamentary

December 2009

Mauritania | Parliamentary

January 2010

Iraq| Parliamentary

16 January 2010

Palestine| Parliamentary & Presidential

25 January 2010

Sudan| Parliamentary 

February 2010

Sudan| Presidential

April 2010

Comoros| Presidential

May 2010

Tunisia| Local  

May 2010

Egypt| Parliamentary "Shura"

November 2010

Egypt| Parliamentary "People's Assembly"

November 2010

Djibouti| Presidential

April 2011

Yemen| Parliamentary 

April 2011

Egypt| Local 

April 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Elections

Comoros | Parliamentary
2 August 2009

Iraq| Parliamentary Kurdistan
25 July 2009

Iraq| Presidential Kurdistan
25 July 2009

18 July 2009

25 June 2009

12 June 2009

7 June 2009

16 May 2009

9 April 2009

31 January 2009

25 May 2008

17 May 2008

8 April 2008

8 February 2008

29 November 2007

20 November 2007

27 October 2007

Morocco: Parliamentary

7 September 2007

Lebanon: By-Elections

5 August 2007

Jordan: Municipal

31 July 2007