2018 East Timorese parliamentary election

2018 East Timorese parliamentary election

12 May 2018

All 65 seats in the National Parliament
33 seats needed for a majority
Turnout80.98% ( 4.24pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
AMP Xanana Gusmão 49.58 34 −1
Fretilin Mari Alkatiri 34.16 23 0
Democratic Mariano Sabino Lopes 8.07 5 −2
FDD António de Sá Benevides 5.49 3 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Most voted-for party by district
Prime Minister before Prime Minister-designate
Mari Alkatiri
Fretilin
Taur Matan Ruak
PLP

Early parliamentary elections were held in Timor-Leste on 12 May 2018 after the National Parliament was dissolved by President Francisco Guterres on 26 January 2018.

The Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP), a coalition of three opposition parties, won an absolute majority of 34 of the 65 seats in Parliament. Voter turnout was 81 percent, five percentage points higher than the previous year. 784,286 people were eligible to vote.