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    2022 Parliamentary Elections: 33 New NAMs Elected and 20 Re-Elected

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    By Yusef Taylor on April 10, 2022 Elections, National Assembly, News, Politics

    By Yusef Taylor, @FlexDan_YT

    The Gambia’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has announced the results of the 9th April 2022 National Assembly Elections indicating that 33 new National Assembly Members (NAMs) have been elected and 20 incumbent NAMs have retained their seats.

    According to the results, President Adama Barrow’s National People’s Party (NPP) has won 18 seats while Ousainou Darboe’s United Democratic Party (UDP) has won 15 seats. Tourism Minister Hon Hamat Bah’s National Reconciliation Party (NRP) has retained 4 seats while Fabakary Tombong Jatta’s led Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) won 2 seats.

    Both NRP and APRC went into an Alliance for the 2022 Parliamentary Elections. Hon Halifa Salah’s People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) won 2 seats while Independent Candidates won 12 seats signalling the biggest change in Gambia’s Parliamentary Elections. In 2017 only one Independent Candidate won a seat in Parliament, Hon Muhammed Magasey of Basse. Hon Magasey who has served two terms as an independent candidate was ruled out of the Parliamentary Elections after losing an NPP Primary.

    2017 and 2022 Elected NAMs Comparison

    After comparing the election results from 2017 and 2022 it can be seen that the biggest increase is by the NPP who has accumulated a total of 17 new NAMs. NPP’s first NAM, Hon Birom Sowe who was elected after a By-Election in November 2020, brings the total number of NPP NAMs to 18. NRP and APRC have gone into an Alliance with NPP, however, both of them combined lost a total of 4 seats.

    APRC is going through a transition after the Party aligned itself with President Barrow’s NPP against the approval of former President Yahya Jammeh currently in exile in Equatorial Guinea. This has led to a breakaway APRC group known as the No to Alliance Movement. Foni, which was previously an APRC stronghold has been taken over by five Independent Candidates including one of the three winning women candidates, Amie Colley of Foni Brefet Constituency.

    The remaining two winning women candidates are Hon Fatoumatta Njie of Banjul South who went Independent after a fallout with the People’s Progressive Party. Completing the list is UDP’s Fatou Cham who defeated Hon Baba Galleh Jallow of the NPP in Sanneh Mentereng. Hon Baba Galleh Jallow was one of 8 UDP NAMs who defected to the NPP. The lone person living with a disability, Lamin Manneh also lost in Sanneh Mentereng.

    Similarly, another three UDP NAMs who defected to the NPP have also been voted out and replaced with UDP candidates. The NPP NAMs who lost their seats include Hon Alagie Jawara of Lower Badibu, Hon Fatoumatta Jawara of Tallingding Kunjang and Hon Saikou Marong of Latrikunda Sabijie. Hon Saikouba Jarju of Busumbala also lost his seat to independent candidate Muhammed Kanteh who is affiliated to the UDP.

    PDOIS lost two seats, most notably Hon Sidia Jatta of Wulli West and Hon Ousman Sillah of Banjul North. However, the PDOIS maintained their Serekunda Constituency seat with Councillor Musa Cham replacing now-retired PDOIS Party Leader Hon Halifa Sallah.

    The UDP who won 31 seats in 2017 has lost a total of 16 seats this year while GDC lost all the 5 seats they won in 2017. Both UDP (8) and GDC (2) had a total of 10 NAMs defect to President Barrow’s NPP. Out of those candidates who defected only 5 of them retained their seats. NAMs who retained their seats include two former GDC NAMs in Kebba Jallow of Jarra Central and Salifu Jawo of Jokadu who both won for NPP. Meanwhile, three former UDP Parliamentarians in Hon Abdoulie Ceesay of Old Yundum, Hon Omar Darboe of Upper Nuimi and Hon Billay Tunkara of Kantora have all retained their seats for the NPP.

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    Yusef Taylor, commonly known as Flex Dan is an editor and practising journalist based in the Gambia with a keen interest in human rights, the economy and good governance among many others. He continues to break news on the economy, human rights violations and is highly engaged in security sector reforms, constitutional reform and the transition of the Gambia from dictatorship to a democracy, the NewGambia. Yusef has been working with Gainako as a media practitioner from 2015 to date. He has a degree in Civil Engineering with 5 years of Design Consultancy experience.

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