REPUBLIC OF THE MALDIVES LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 22 JANUARY 2005 =================================================================== Elections to the Council (Majlis) Source: Statistics: Maldives High Commission to Britain website, political affiliations: Minivan News website Each of the atolls of the Maldives elects two members of the Majlis by a simple majority system, regardless of population. Each voter is entitled to cast one or two votes, which is why the number of votes cast exceeds the number of registered voters nationally and in most constituencies. Candidates appear in the order given at the High Commission website. There are no legal political parties in the Maldives. The Maldives Democratic Party, which operates from exile in Sri Lanka, published a list of candidates which it endorsed. Government supporters includes only those identified as such by Minivan News. This is almost certainly an under-estimate of the votes polled by government supporters. NATIONAL SUMMARY =================================================================== Eligible voters: 156,267 Total votes cast: 225,250 Invalid votes: 3,636 01.6 Valid votes: 221,614 98.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Seats ------------------------------------------------------------------- Government supporters 71,558 32.3 20 Maldives Democratic Party 68,931 31.1 18 Others 81,125 36.6 4 Unelected government nominees 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 221,614 50 -------------------------------------------------------------------- VOTES BY CONSTITUENCY =================================================================== ALIFU ALIF =================================================================== Eligible voters: 2,950 Total votes cast: 4,836 Invalid votes: 28 00.6 Valid votes: 4,808 99.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Haleem 138 02.9 Moosa Naeem 338 07.0 Hussain Siraaju MDP 766 15.9 Ahmed Zubair MDP 1,474 30.7 ELECTED Hussain Mohamed Govt 1,325 27.6 ELECTED Mohamed Faseel Rasheed 739 15.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,808 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ALIFU DHAAL =================================================================== Eligible voters: 4,082 Total votes cast: 6,820 Invalid votes: 58 00.9 Valid votes: 6,762 99.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ibrahim Rasheed 289 04.3 Abdul Rasheed Ali Fulhu 1,188 17.6 ELECTED Mohamed Ibrahim 806 11.9 Mohamed Shameem 1030 15.2 Mohamed Ali 806 11.9 Illyas Hussain Ibrahim MDP 699 10.3 Abdul Muhusin Abdulla MDP 1,649 24.4 ELECTED Aishath Hussain Maniku 237 03.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,762 ------------------------------------------------------------------- BAA =================================================================== Eligible voters: 6,320 Total votes cast: 10,674 Invalid votes: 116 01.1 Valid votes: 10,558 98.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abdul Raseed A Rahman MDP 2,151 20.4 ELECTED Ameen Ibrahim 1,467 13.9 Ahmed Thasmeen Ali Govt 3,890 36.8 ELECTED Adnan Hussain 1,441 13.6 Yoosuf Moosa 1,493 14.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,558 ------------------------------------------------------------------- DHAALU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 3,402 Total votes cast: 5,816 Invalid votes: 48 00.8 Valid votes: 5,768 99.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ismail Zahir 382 06.6 Iqbal Hameed MDP 147 02.5 Ahmed Shiyaam Mohamed Govt 2,455 42.6 ELECTED Umar Zahir Abdul Samad 185 03.2 Ahmed Nashid MDP 2,280 39.5 ELECTED Ibrahim Nafees 271 04.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,768 ------------------------------------------------------------------- FAAFU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 2,094 Total votes cast: 3,832 Invalid votes: 22 00.6 Valid votes: 3,810 99.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abdul Ghafoor Ibrahim Govt 768 20.2 ELECTED Moosa Ahmed 593 15.6 Ahmed Anwar 521 13.7 Ahmed Hamzaa MDP 834 21.9 ELECTED Aboobakuru Mohamed MDP 368 09.7 Ahmed Nizaaru 173 04.5 Ibrahim Shareef Mohamed 531 13.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,810 ------------------------------------------------------------------- GAAFU ALIFU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 5,613 Total votes cast: 9,736 Invalid votes: 66 00.7 Valid votes: 9,670 99.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fathmath Sheereen Abdulla Govt 1,738 18.0 Abdul Rahman Mohamed MDP 402 04.2 Abdulla Jabir Govt 2,471 25.6 ELECTED Mohamed Saleem MDP 2,118 21.9 ELECTED Mohamed Ramiz 2,019 20.9 Mohamed Ali 352 03.6 Saeed Didi 504 05.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,670 ------------------------------------------------------------------- GAAFU DHAAL =================================================================== Eligible voters: 9,083 Total votes cast: 14,624 Invalid votes: 174 01.2 Valid votes: 14,450 98.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohamed Shareef 337 02.3 Shahid Abdul Samad 243 01.7 Ahmed Izzath Sidhqee Govt 2,453 17.0 ELECTED Ibrahim Afeef 557 03.9 Hafeeza Afeef MDP 735 05.1 Niumath Shafeeq MDP 335 02.3 Ali Muththalib 435 03.0 Zahir Adam Govt 3,612 25.0 ELECTED Ahmed Maniku 283 02.0 Mohmaed Afeef Hussain 1,678 11.6 Mohamed Saeed 154 01.1 Abbas Ibrahim 2,729 18.9 Ibrahim Adnan 430 03.0 A Z Mohamed Hussain 295 02.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 14,450 ------------------------------------------------------------------- GNAVIYANI =================================================================== Eligible voters: 5,111 Total votes cast: 8,852 Invalid votes: 52 00.6 Valid votes: 8,800 99.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abdulla Abbas Mohamed 1,321 15.0 Mohamed Ibrahim Didi MDP 2,862 32.5 ELECTED Mohamed Fikree 920 10.5 M Fahumee Hassan 1,812 20.6 Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed Govt 1,833 20.8 ELECTED ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,800 ------------------------------------------------------------------- HAA ALIFU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 9,477 Total votes cast: 14,676 Invalid votes: 268 01.8 Valid votes: 14,408 98.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jaufar Easa Adam Govt 2,772 19.2 ELECTED Ahmed Nizaam Govt 1,934 13.4 Hassan Waheed 1,298 09.0 Samaru Ibrahim Maniku Govt 3,441 23.9 ELECTED Fuaad Gasim MDP 1,930 13.4 Ali Ibrahim Maniku 669 04.6 Ali Shakir MDP 444 03.1 Ahmed Sameeru 1,920 13.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 14,408 ------------------------------------------------------------------- HAA DHAALU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 10,737 Total votes cast: 15,090 Invalid votes: 538 03.6 Valid votes: 14,552 96.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abdulla Naseer 2,670 18.3 Ahmed Adil MDP 2,449 16.8 Abdulla Shakooru Govt 3,048 20.9 ELECTED Ahmed Abdulla Govt 3,924 27.0 ELECTED Shuaib Ali MDP 1,923 13.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 14,552 ------------------------------------------------------------------- KAAFU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 4,728 Total votes cast: 8,174 Invalid votes: 146 01.8 Valid votes: 8,028 98.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ismail Abdul Hameed 2,648 33.0 ELECTED Abdulla Shakir MDP 1,083 13.5 Maariya Ahmed Didi MDP 2,408 30.0 ELECTED Don Adam Fulhu Govt 1,743 21.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,028 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Didi is the only woman elected. LAAMU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 6,748 Total votes cast: 11,612 Invalid votes: 138 01.2 Valid votes: 11,474 98.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Rasheed Ibrahim 686 06.0 Mohamed Abdulla 573 05.0 Aneesa Saeed 261 02.3 Mohamed Naeem 945 08.2 Abdul Rasheed Hussain Govt 1,078 09.4 Ilyas Ibrahim Govt 3,605 31.4 ELECTED Ibrahim Anees 364 03.2 Ibrahim Rasheed 430 03.7 Moosa Maniku MDP 1,668 14.5 ELECTED Mauroof Ahmed 1,137 09.9 Ibrahim Ali 589 05.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,474 ------------------------------------------------------------------- LHAVIYANI =================================================================== Eligible voters: 5,199 Total votes cast: 9,564 Invalid votes: 46 00.5 Valid votes: 9,518 99.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ismail Mohamed 1,089 11.4 Ahmed Mohamed Govt 2,271 23.9 ELECTED Mohamed Ziyaad 937 09.8 Mohamed Ismail Fulhu Govt 1,860 19.5 Ibrahim Mohamed Solih MDP 1,874 19.7 ELECTED Adam Moosa 1,487 15.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,518 ------------------------------------------------------------------- MALE =================================================================== Eligible voters: 29,837 Total votes cast: 23,280 Invalid votes: 462 02.0 Valid votes: 22,818 98.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ibrahim Ismail MDP 6,507 28.5 ELECTED Mohamed Shareef 313 01.4 Ahmed M Adnan 1,768 07.7 Adnan Yoosuf 524 02.3 Hamid Rasheed 2,786 12.2 Hassan Nooree 164 00.7 Fayyaz Ahmed 150 00.7 Abdul Ghanee Moosa 190 00.8 Abdulla Kamaaludeen Govt 2,440 10.7 Adam Zahir 915 04.0 Mohamed Abdul Rafur 57 00.2 Abdul Hannaa Aboobakuru 996 04.4 Mohamed Shihab MDP 5,760 25.2 ELECTED Ali Shafeeu 248 01.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 22,818 ------------------------------------------------------------------- MEEMU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 3,490 Total votes cast: 5,776 Invalid votes: 36 00.6 Valid votes: 5,740 99.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abdul Latheef Ahmed MDP 587 10.2 Aneesa Ahmed Govt 2,177 37.9 ELECTED Ahmed Nazim Govt 2,465 42.9 ELECTED Zakariyya Hassan Fulhu 180 03.1 Mohamed Shafeeg MDP 295 05.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,740 ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOONU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 6,954 Total votes cast: 11,016 Invalid votes: 234 02.1 Valid votes: 10,782 97.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ali Mohamed Govt 3,169 29.4 ELECTED A M Abdul Razzaq 272 02.5 Ibrahim Moosa Fulhu 1,692 15.7 Abdul Ghanee Ali 318 02.9 Aboobaku Mohamed MDP 917 08.5 Abdulla Yameen Govt 3,536 32.8 ELECTED Gasim Ali 644 06.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,782 ------------------------------------------------------------------- RAA =================================================================== Eligible voters: 9,052 Total votes cast: 12,686 Invalid votes: 262 02.1 Valid votes: 12,424 97.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Rasheed 1,634 13.2 Ahmed Raazee 2,235 18.0 Ali Waheed MDP 2,703 21.8 ELECTED Ibrahim Shaheed MDP 2,581 20.8 ELECTED Ismail Zakariyya Govt 1,933 15.6 Asadulla S Ahmed 1,076 08.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12,424 ------------------------------------------------------------------- SEENU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 15,890 Total votes cast: 24,906 Invalid votes: 308 01.2 Valid votes: 24,598 98.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Hamid 730 03.0 Musthafa Luthfy Govt 3,118 12.7 Mohamed Naeem 1,571 06.4 Ibrahim Rusdhy 486 02.0 Ali Riza 433 01.8 Ibrahim Zahir 401 01.6 H Mohamed Rasheed 4,214 17.1 Ibrahim Shareef MDP 5,641 22.9 ELECTED Mohamed Aslam MDP 6,985 28.4 ELECTED Fathimath Badoora 711 02.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 24,598 ------------------------------------------------------------------- SHAVIYANI =================================================================== Eligible voters: 7,155 Total votes cast: 10,114 Invalid votes: 500 04.9 Valid votes: 9,614 95.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hassan Zahir MDP 1,465 15.2 Ibrahim Waheed 3,357 34.9 ELECTED Mohamed Hussain Govt 3,893 40.5 ELECTED Ahmed Abdulla Adam 899 09.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,614 ------------------------------------------------------------------- THAA =================================================================== Eligible voters: 7,163 Total votes cast: 11,026 Invalid votes: 120 01.1 Valid votes: 10,906 98.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Solih MDP 747 06.8 Abdulla Nasheed 1,723 15.8 Mohamed Ibrahim Maniku 999 09.2 Hassan Afeef MDP 3,134 28.7 ELECTED Mohamed Shareef 2,181 20.0 ELECTED Hussain Maniku Don Maniku Govt 2,122 19.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,906 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Minivan News describes Shareef as “pro-MDP” VAAVU =================================================================== Eligible voters: 1,182 Total votes cast: 2,140 Invalid votes: 14 00.7 Valid votes: 2,126 99.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abdul Azeez Ibrahim 148 07.0 Ismail Shihab MDP 548 25.8 ELECTED Hussain Mohamed Fulhu MDP 462 21.7 Moosa Ahmed 470 22.1 Abdulla Shahid Govt 484 22.8 ELECTED ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,126 -------------------------------------------------------------------