Guinea presidential elections - October 11, 2015

[Sir John Johns]

Partial results gave Alpha Condé reelected in the first round with Cellou Dalein Diallo placing a distant second and the remaining candidates lagging far behind Condé and Diallo.

Earlier this week, the seven candidates opposed to Condé held a joint press conference at which they demanded the annulment of the first round results arguing that the election has been plagued by widespread fraud and numerous logistics problems. One of the biggest issues was the fact that the names of the voters on the electoral roll weren't arranged in alphabetical order leading to massive confusion when voters tried to identify themselves. According to Sidya Touré, most of the frauds took place in Forested Guinea.

Diallo and Touré have also announced their complete withdrawal from the electoral process.

The whole provisional results are set to be proclaimed tomorrow.

[Sir John Johns]

Unsurprisingly, Condé made his best results in the Maninka-populated prefectures with results over 90%. More interestingly, he made a breakthrough in Forested Guinea (the Southeast) - where the native candidates Kouyaté and Kourouma failed to repeat their good results of 2010 – and in Maritime Guinea at the expense of Sidya Touré who was ahead there back in 2010.

For his part, Diallo topped the polls in the Fula-populated prefectures (receiving his best results in his native prefecture of Labé; 87.11%) and in Ratoma, Conakry's second most-populated commune and a stronghold of the opponents to Condé. Diallo also won the vote of Guinean expatriates.