2023 Emirati parliamentary elections
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| ← 2019 | 7 October 2023 | 2027 → |
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20 of the 40 seats in theFederal National Council |
| Turnout | 44.00% ( 9.19pp) |
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
Parliamentary elections were held in theUnited Arab Emirates on 7 October 2023 to elect 20 of the 40 members of theFederal National Council.[1][2][3] As political parties are banned in the UAE, all candidates run asindependents.[4] The election was the first to be conducted completely electronically, 92.69% of voters chose to vote remotely in the election cycle.[2][3]
TheFederal National Council consists of 40 members, 20 of whom are appointed by therulers of eachemirate.[5][6] and 20 are elected bysingle non-transferable vote in seven electoral colleges based on the emirates. The colleges ofAbu Dhabi andDubai elect four members each, the colleges ofSharjah andRas al-Khaimah three each, and the colleges ofAjman,Fujairah andUmm al-Quwain two each.[7][8] Since the2019 election, the FNC has agender quota, requiring 50% of FNC members to be women.[4]
Not all citizens are eligible to vote. Instead, voters are handpicked and chosen through anelectoral college, the membership of which was expanded from 337,738 in 2019 to 398,879 in 2023.[9][10]
Preliminary results were released on 7 October, and certified on 13 October.[8] The national election committees of all emirates, except the committees of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, allocated half of their elected seats to the highest voted for candidates of each gender to meet their gender quotas; the appointed seats for each emirate need to ultimately achieve the quota.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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| Independents | | 20 |
| Total | | 20 |
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| Total votes | 175,487 | – | |
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| Registered voters/turnout | 398,879 | 44.00 | |
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| Source:The National |
| Emirate | Elected members | Votes | Notes |
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| Abu Dhabi | Salem Al Ameri | 4,509 | |
| Hilal Al Kaabi | 3,671 | |
| Mudhia Al Menhali | 2,448 | |
| Hashima Al Afari | 1,769 | |
| Dubai | Humaid Al Tayer | 2,426 | |
| Ahmed Khoury | 1,749 | |
| Maryam Majid bin Thaneya | 1,064 | Re-elected |
| Amna Ali Salem Ali Al Odaidi | 617 | |
| Sharjah | Mohammed Al Dhouri | 2,489 | |
| Adnan Al Hammadi | 2,335 | Re-elected |
| Walid Al Mansouri | 2,013 | |
| Ras al-Khaimah | Saeed Al Nuaimi | 3,866 | |
| Sultan Al Zaabi | 3,720 | |
| Salem Al Ali | 3,513 | |
| Ajman | Majid Al Mazrouei | 3,787 | |
| Aisha Al Marri | 390 | |
| Fujairah | Sheikh Saeed Al Sharqi | 8,985 | |
| Aisha Al Dhanhan | 1,009 | |
| Umm al-Quwain | Mohammed Al Ali | 1,036 | |
| Mona Al Ali | 280 | |
| Source:The National,WAM |
| Emirate | Eligible voters | Votes cast | Turnout |
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| Abu Dhabi | 126,779 | 56,471 | 44.54% |
| Dubai | 73,181 | 16,909 | 23.11% |
| Sharjah | 72,946 | 29,996 | 41.11% |
| Ras al-Khaimah | 62,197 | 35,357 | 56.85% |
| Ajman | 12,600 | 7,283 | 57.80% |
| Fujairah | 43,599 | 24,911 | 57.13% |
| Umm al-Quwain | 7,577 | 4,561 | 60.20% |
| Total | 398,879 | 175,488 | 44.00% |
| Source:WAM |
| Gender | Eligible voters | % of eligible voters | % of turnout |
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| Male | 194,111 | 48.67% | 55.86% |
| Female | 204,768 | 51.22% | 44.14% |
| Source:WAM[11][12] |
