2026 Moroccan general election

General elections were held in Morocco on 23 September 2026 to elect all 395 members of the House of Representatives. The election was the 12th legislative election held in Morocco since independence in 1956. Voting took place under direct universal suffrage using a party-list proportional representation system.

Under the 2011 Constitution, the king appoints the Head of Government from the political party that obtains the most seats in the House of Representatives, after which the appointed head of government forms the government. Preparations for the 2026 election were overseen by Abdelouafi Laftit, the Minister of the Interior, following an instruction by King Mohammed VI in his Throne Day speech in July 2025. The King instructed Laftit to ensure the proper preparation of the election and to begin political consultations with the parties and other stakeholders, marking a departure from the practice followed in the 2016 and 2021 legislative elections, when the Head of Government chaired preparatory meetings for the electoral process.

The campaign began on 10 September and ended at midnight on 22 September, the day before polling. Twenty-eight political parties, including a coalition formed specifically for the election, together with two lists of independent candidates, contested all 395 seats. The final electoral rolls contained 15,801,162 registered voters, of whom 54% were male and 46% were female.

Candidates stood on 1,850 lists comprising 7,288 candidacies across the electoral districts, with an average of more than 18 candidates per seat. Of these, 1,615 lists were submitted for local electoral districts, while 235 regional lists reserved for women contained 1,783 candidacies. In total, 2,658 women and 227 incumbent members of the House of Representatives stood as candidates.

The Authenticity and Modernity Party, led by Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, won the most seats in the House of Representatives numbering 97, while the ruling National Rally of Independents, led by Mohamed Chaouki, came second. On 29 September, El Mansouri was appointed Head of Government by the king and tasked to form a government, making her the first woman to serve in this position.