Parliamentary elections were held in the

Comoros The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni, ...

on 6 December 2009, with a second round on 20 December. The elections were originally scheduled for July 2009, but were postponed until after a

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was held in May 2009. They were then scheduled to take place on 29 November, but were delayed again. The result was a victory for the Baobab Movement, a coalition supporting President

Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi Sayyid Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi (, born 5 June 1958) is a Comorian Islamic leader and politician, who served as the eighth President of Comoros from 2006 to 2011. He is popularly known as 'Ayatollah'. After easily winning the 14 May 2006 ...

Electoral system

The elections were held using the

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with 24 single-member constituencies. The remaining nine seats in the

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were filled by appointees from the assemblies of the autonomous islands of the Comoros,

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Mohéli Mohéli , also known as Mwali, is an autonomously-governed island that forms part of the Union of the Comoros. It is the smallest of the three major islands in the country. It is located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa and it is the ...

and

Anjouan Anjouan () is an autonomous volcanic island in the Comoro Islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean, part of the Comoros, Union of the Comoros. It is known in Comorian languages, Shikomori as Ndzuani, Ndzuwani or Nzwani, and, until the early twentie ...

, with each island selecting three members.

Campaign

Most candidates supporting President Sambi campaigned as the Baobab coalition, named after their identifying symbol, the

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tree.

Results

By constituency

References

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