PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ALGERIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 30 MAY 2002 =================================================================== Elections to the Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani (National People's Assembly) Source: IFES website Parties -------------------------------------------------------------------- * FLN - Front pour la Libération Nationale (Front for National Liberation * FNA - Front National Algerien (Algerian National Front) * MRN - Mouvement pour la Reforme Nationale (Movement for National Reform) * MSP - Mouvement de la Société pour la Paix (Movement of the Society for Peace) * PT - Parti du Travail (Workers' Party) * RND - Rassemblement National pour la Démocratie (National Rally for Democracy) NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS =================================================================== Votes and seats are compared with those won in the 1997 elections. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Votes % Change -------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Voters: 17,951,127 Votes Cast: 8,288,536 46.2 -19.4 Valid Votes: 7,420,867 89.5 -05.9 Invalid Votes: 867,669 10.5 +05.9 Valid votes as % of registered voters: 41.3 -21.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats Change -------------------------------------------------------------------- FLN 2,618,003 35.3 +21.0 199 +138 FNA 113,700 01.5 8 MNR 705,319 09.5 43 MSP 523,464 07.0 -07.8 38 -31 PT 246,770 03.3 21 RND 610,461 08.2 -25.4 47 -112 Others 2,630,150 35.1 33 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,420,867 389 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The radical fall in turnout at this election was due to a boycott by some socialist and Islamist parties, as well as in the Berber minority areas. The totals of seats include members declared by the Constitutional Court to have been elected in the Berber areas, even though almost no votes were cast there.