Parliamentary elections were held in

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on 17 December 2011. Amidst an opposition boycott, the ruling

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(PDG) won a landslide victory; official results were announced on 21 December 2011, showing that the PDG won 113 out of 120 seats, the most it had won since the beginning of multiparty politics in the early 1990s. A few other parties won the handful of seats remaining: the Rally for Gabon (RPG) won three seats, while the

Circle of Liberal Reformers The Circle of Liberal Reformers (french: Cercle des Libéraux Réformateurs, CLR) is a political party in Gabon. History The CLR was formed in 1993 as a breakaway from the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), and was led by Jean-Boniface Ass ...

(CLR), the Independent Centre Party (PGCI),

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(PSD), and the

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(UPRN) won a single seat each. Turnout was 34%, with many opposition supporters choosing to boycott.Gabon's coalition wins landslide victory
BBC News, 27 December 2011

Results

Alongside the PDG, the Rally for Gabon,

, Independent Centre Party,

Democratic and Republican Alliance The Democratic and Republican Alliance (, ADERE) is a political party in Gabon. History The party won a single seat in the 1996 parliamentary elections. It gained two more seats in the 2001 elections and retained all three seats in the 2006 ...

, Morena–Original, Rally for Democracy and Progress were all part of the Republican Majority for Emergence coalition.

References

Parliamentary elections in Gabon

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Election and referendum articles with incomplete results

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