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Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Interior announced the final turnout of the 2021 general elections, which took place on September 8.
The National Rally of Independents (RNI) topped the list with the highest number of seats secured in the House of Representatives.
The final turnout shows RNI securing more seats in the House of Representatives. The number moved from 97 seats from the initial results to 102.
The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) remained second with 86 seats, while the Istiqlal Party (PI) received 86 seats.
The Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) received 35 seats, followed by the Popular Movement (MP) (29), the Party for Progress and Socialism (PPS) (21), the Constitutional Union (UC) (18).
The Justice and Development Party’s (PJD) number of seats moved to 13 rather than the 12 announced in the initial result.
Other political formations secured 10 seats, the ministry added.
Regarding distribution for seats for the councils of municipalities and districts, RNI secured most of the votes.
The RNI secured 9,995 seats in the aforementioned category, followed by PAM (6,210), PI (5,600), USFP (2,415), MP (2,253), UC (1,626), PPS (1,532), PJD (777).
The other political parties received 1,525 seats combined.
With regards to the distribution of seats for the councils of regions, RNI is first with 196 seats followed by PI (114 seats), and PAM (143 seats).
USFP secured 48 seats in this category, followed by MP (47), UC (30), PPS (29), PJD (18).
The other political parties received 23 seats combined.
Observers and officials commended the conditions under which the elections were carried out in Morocco amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit said that the elections took place in the “best conditions,” emphasizing transparency.
He said that Morocco has “ experienced an atmosphere of global mobilization to turn the elections into a step that condenses the broad hopes of the Moroccan people as a whole in the strengthening of the development dynamic and the consecration of the democratic choice.”
More than 5,000 Moroccan and international observers monitored Morocco’s elections.
