2025 Guyanese general election

2025 Guyanese general election

1 September 2025
All 65 seats in the National Assembly 33 seats needed for a majority
Registered	718,715
Turnout	61.58% ( 8.66pp)
First party Second party   Candidate Irfaan Ali Azruddin Mohamed Party PPP/C WIN Seats won 36 16 Seat change 3 New Popular vote 242,498 109,066 Percentage 55.31% 24.87% Swing 4.62 pp New   Third party Fourth party   Candidate Aubrey Norton Amanza Walton Desir Party PNCR FG Alliance APNU FGM Seats won 12 1 Seat change 9 New Popular vote 77,998 4,326 Percentage 17.79% 0.99% Swing 29.55 pp New
President before election Mohamed Irfaan Ali PPP/C Elected President Mohamed Irfaan Ali PPP/C

General elections were held in Guyana on 1 September 2025. The vote count concluded on 3 September, with incumbent president Irfaan Ali winning a second and final term. His PPP/C party increased its seats and vote share, winning 55% of votes and 36 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly. Second place was taken by the new We Invest in Nationhood party, which received 25% of the votes and 16 seats.

Background

The People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) returned to government following the 2 March 2020 general election, in which they defeated the governing APNU+AFC coalition. The PPP/C's presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali, became the 10th President of Guyana. However results were not finalised for four months, due to allegations of vote rigging by the APNU+AFC.

In the final results for 2020, the PPP/C won 33 seats and 50.69% of the vote, giving it a majority of one in the National Assembly. The APNU+AFC received 31 seats and 47.34% of the vote, a loss of two seats. The remaining seat was awarded to the LJP—ANUG—TNM alliance, which received a combined total of 1.13% of the vote.

The Constitution of Guyana limits the term of the National Assembly and the president to five years. In accordance with this term limit, Ali dissolved the 12th National Assembly on 3 July 2025 and announced elections on 1 September.

Electoral system

The 65 members of the National Assembly are elected using closed list proportional representation from a single nationwide 40-seat constituency and 10 sub-national constituencies with a total of 25 seats. Seats are allocated using the Hare quota.

The President is elected by a first-past-the-post double simultaneous vote system, whereby each list nominates a presidential candidate and the presidential election itself is won by the candidate of the list having a plurality.

Campaign

Major parties contesting

The PPP/C opted to re-nominate the ticket of Irfaan Ali and Mark Phillips, with the party's General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo citing the accomplishments of the administration during the term. On 18 June 2025, the largest opposition alliance in the previous parliament, APNU, announced PNCR leader Aubrey Norton would be their presidential candidate, with Member of Parliament Juretha Fernandes as his running mate.

Electoral alliances

Multiple alliances were formed ahead of the election as part of an effort by opposition parties to unite in order to increase their chances of defeating the governing PPP/C.

On 30 May 2025, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Working People's Alliance (WPA), previously a member of the APNU, signed a coalition agreement.

On 29 June 2025, We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), led by businessman Azruddin Mohamed, announced a joinder agreement with A New and United Guyana. Under the agreement, ANUG would effectively merge with WIN, adopting its logo, presidential candidate and joining the list, while still retaining its right to exist as an individual party.

A coalition agreement was adopted on 1 July 2025 by Forward Guyana, The People's Movement and the Vigilant Political Action Committee where the parties agreed to contest the election as one entity, opting to label the joinder the "Forward Guyana Movement".

Endorsements

Type	PPP/C	APNU	FGM	WIN—ANUG
Media	Frederick Kissoon (Columnist) Michael Anthony (former Boxer, Olympic Bronze Medalist)
Public figures	Sydney Allicock (former Vice President of Guyana) C.N Sharma (Leader of the Justice for All Party) Geeta Chandan-Edmond (former PNCR Member of Parliament, former General Secretary of the PNCR) Asha Kissoon (Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Leader of The New Movement) Lenox Shuman (Leader of The Liberty and Justice Party) Jermaine Figueria (former PNCR Member of Parliament) Vishnu Bandhu (Leader of the United Republican Party) Daniel Seeram (Chairman of the Demerara-Mahaica RDC) Samuel Sandy (Vice-Chairman of the Demerara-Mahaica RDC) Ismail Muhammad-Al-Cush (AFC Member of the Mahaica-Berbice RDC) Gifford Marshall (former Mayor of Bartica) Steve Ninvalle (Director of Sport) David Daniels (Chairman of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni AFC) Richard Van-West Charles (former PNCR executive member) James Bond (former PNCR Member of Parliament) Bissoondyal Singh (President of the Guyana Cricket Board) Ronaldo Alphonso (President of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association)	David Granger (9th President of Guyana, former leader of the PNC/R)	Ronald Bulkan (former Minister of Communities)	Tabitha Sarabo-Halley (former WPA Member of Parliament) Natasha Singh-Lewis (former PNCR Member of Parliament) Dawn Hastings-Williams (former PNCR Member of Parliament, former General Secretary of the PNCR) Mark Goring (Vice-Chairman of the Upper Demerara-Berbice RDC)
Unions and business associations	Small Miners Association Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club

Conduct

Several international groups deployed observers for the election, including the Carter Center, the Organization of American States (OAS) and Caricom.

In a pre-election statement, the Carter Center noted the size of Guyana's voter list, in which there were 757,000 registered voters out of a total population of 794,000, and criticized the failure of authorities to release the findings of the 2022 population census, calling this a "regrettable lapse" which "obscures public understanding of basic population demographics and their potential relation to the size of the voter list".

After his team visited 342 polling stations on election day, former Jamaican prime minister Bruce Golding, the head of the OAS mission, said that overall, things had gone smoothly and that election officials had acted with professionalism.

The observer mission from the European Union, headed by Polish MEP Robert Biedroń, described election day as "peaceful" but expressed concern about the ruling PPP/C leveraging its incumbency advantage to distort the fairness of the process. It also highlighted a lack of transparency and accountability caused by inadequate campaign finance rules.

Results

As results were finalised on 3 September, it became clear that incumbent president Irfaan Ali had won a second term, with his PPP/C party winning eight of the ten regions and over 55% of the popular vote. Ali claimed that the PPP/C was on course to win at least 36 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly.

In what was described by the Stabroek News as a "meteoric rise", newcomer party We Invest in Nationhood came second, with 24% of the votes cast and a projected 16 seats. The previous opposition Partnership for National Unity alliance came third with 17% of the vote, with a probable 12 seats, down 9 from the previous election. The last Assembly seat went to the Forward Guyana Movement and will likely be taken up by its presidential candidate, Amanza Walton Desir.

A partial recount of votes in Region 4, requested by APNU, began on 4 September.

Party	Presidential candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	People's Progressive Party/Civic	Irfaan Ali	242,498	55.31	36	+3
	We Invest in Nationhood	Azruddin Mohamed	109,066	24.87	16	New
	A Partnership for National Unity	Aubrey Norton	77,998	17.79	12	–9
	Forward Guyana Movement	Amanza Walton Desir	4,326	0.99	1	New
	Alliance for Change	Nigel Hughes	3,610	0.82	0	–9
	Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity	Simona Broomes	969	0.22	0	New
Total	438,467	100.00	65	0
Registered voters/turnout			718,715	–
Source: Stabroek News (votes), (seats)

By region

The PPP/C won in eight of the country's ten regions, with WIN securing victories in Regions 7 and 10.

Region	APNU	PPP/C	WIN	FGM	AFC	ALJ	Hare quota	Total votes	Total seats
#	Name	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Seats
1	Barima-Waini	469	3.06	0.06	9030	58.92	1.18	5716	37.30	0.75	75	0.49	0.01	35	0.23	0	0.00	7663	15325	2
2	Pomeroon-Supenaam	1835	6.81	0.14	17478	64.85	1.30	7400	27.46	0.55	147	0.55	0.01	91	0.34	0	0.00	13476	26951	2
3	Essequibo Islands-West Demerara	8992	12.67	0.38	48055	67.69	2.03	12969	18.27	0.55	522	0.74	0.02	322	0.45	138	0.19	23666	70998	3
4	Demerara-Mahaica	46956	25.97	1.82	87536	48.42	3.39	41607	23.01	1.61	2431	1.34	0.09	1765	0.98	497	0.27	25827	180792	7
5	Mahaica-Berbice	6480	20.82	0.42	18432	59.22	1.18	5816	18.69	0.37	128	0.41	0.01	208	0.67	58	0.19	15561	31122	2
6	East Berbice-Corentyne	6223	10.21	0.31	41320	67.77	2.03	12623	20.70	0.62	361	0.59	0.02	315	0.52	132	0.22	20325	60974	3
7	Cuyuni-Mazaruni	983	9.70	0.19	3577	35.30	0.71	5098	50.32	1.01	0	0.00	0.00	415	4.10	59	0.58	5066	10132	2
8	Potaro-Siparuni	276	4.79	0.05	2872	49.80	0.50	2562	44.43	0.44	0	0.00	0.00	57	0.99	0	0.00	5767	5767	1
9	Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo	450	2.92	0.03	9938	64.55	0.65	4817	31.29	0.31	0	0.00	0.00	192	1.25	0	0.00	15397	15397	1
10	Upper Demerara-Berbice	5334	25.39	0.51	4260	20.28	0.41	10458	49.78	1.00	662	3.15	0.06	210	1.00	85	0.40	10505	21009	2
Total	77,998	17.79	12	242,498	55.31	36	109,066	24.87	16	4326	0.99	1	3610	0.82	969	0.22	6746	438,467	65
Regional seats			4			13			8										25
National seats			8			23			8			1