1995 Mauritian general election

1995 Mauritian general election

20 December 1995 (1995-12-20)
All 62 directly elected seats in the National Assembly (and up to 8 BLS seats)
First party Second party   Leader Navin Ramgoolam Gaëtan Duval Party Labour Party Parti Gaëtan Duval Last election 3 seats – Seats won 60 1 Seat change 57 New Popular vote 1,084,236 105,282 Percentage 65.2% 6.3% Swing 25.9pp New
Result by constituency. The colour shade shows the percentage of the elected candidate with the highest number of votes
Prime Minister before election Sir Anerood Jugnauth MSM Subsequent Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam Labour Party

General elections were held in Mauritius on 20 December 1995. The result was a landslide victory for the Labour Party-Mauritian Militant Movement alliance led by Navin Ramgoolam,^[1] which won all 60 constituency seats on Mauritius. Along with 1982, it was one of three elections in which a party won every seat. The Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) led by Anerood Jugnauth lost power after 13 years, with Jugnauth resigning two days after the results were announced. Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister and appointed Paul Berenger as Deputy Prime Minister.

Electoral system

The voting system involved twenty constituencies on Mauritius, which each elected three members. Two seats were elected by residents of Rodrigues, and up to eight seats could be filled by the "best losers",^[2] although only four were filled at this election. Voter turnout was 79.9%.^[3]

Results

Of the 60 seats won by the Labour–MMM alliance, the Labour Party won 35 and the MMM 25.^[4]

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Cons	BL	Total
	Labour Party–MMM	1,084,236	65.17	60	0	60
	MSM–MMR	330,219	19.85	0	0	0
	Parti Gaëtan Duval	105,282	6.33	0	1	1
	MMP–HP	28,749	1.73	0	0	0
	Mauritian Militant Socialist Movement	25,472	1.53	0	0	0
	Rodrigues People's Organisation	16,631	1.00	2	0	2
	Rodrigues Movement	9,529	0.57	0	2	2
	Muslim People's Front	8,233	0.49	0	0	0
	Liberal Democrats' Movement	6,848	0.41	0	0	0
	Natural Law Party	4,074	0.24	0	0	0
	Liberal Action Party	3,332	0.20	0	0	0
	Mauritian People's Party	2,505	0.15	0	0	0
	Mauritian Movement for Peace	1,630	0.10	0	0	0
	Hizbullah	1,375	0.08	0	1	1
	Movement for Justice	1,149	0.07	0	0	0
	Mauritian Democratic Movement	859	0.05	0	0	0
	Socialist Movement of the South	342	0.02	0	0	0
	Hindu Etka Andolan Dul	307	0.02	0	0	0
	Republican Movement	281	0.02	0	0	0
	Mauritian Democracy	259	0.02	0	0	0
	Mauritian Workers' Movement	212	0.01	0	0	0
	Mauritius United Party	185	0.01	0	0	0
	Mauritius Party Rights	100	0.01	0	0	0
	Independents	32,007	1.92	0	0	0
Total		1,663,816	100.00	62	4	66
Valid votes		559,005	98.45
Invalid/blank votes		8,805	1.55
Total votes		567,810	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		712,513	79.69
Source: Electoral Commission, African Elections Database, EISA, Nohlen et al.

References

1. Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p618 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
2. Mauritius: Background to the 1967 Legislative Assembly election Archived 2010-09-02 at the Wayback Machine EISA
3. Mauritius: 1995 National Assembly election results Archived 2010-09-02 at the Wayback Machine EISA
4. Elections in Mauritius African Elections Database