2023 Maldivian presidential election

2023 Maldivian presidential election
← 2018 9 September 2023 (first round)
30 September 2023 (second round)		 2028 →
Turnout79.85% (first round)
87.31% (second round)
 
Nominee Mohamed Muizzu Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
Party PNC MDP
Running mate Hussain Mohamed Latheef Mohamed Aslam
Popular vote 129,159 109,868
Percentage 54.04% 45.96%
Second round results by atoll
President before election

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
MDP

Elected President

Mohamed Muizzu
PNC

Presidential elections were held in the Maldives on Saturday, 9 September 2023, with a second round held on 30 September.[1] Incumbent president Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was seeking re-election, after defeating the-then Speaker of the People's Majlis Mohamed Nasheed in the Maldivian Democratic Party primaries.[2] People's National Congress candidate and Malé mayor Mohamed Muizzu won the election with 54% of the votes, defeating Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and becoming President-elect of the Maldives.[3][4] It was the fourth consecutive election in which a Maldivian president failed to win reelection, the last to do so having been Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ran unopposed, in 2003.[5]

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