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Returning officers declare each constituency; the IEC publishes the full list. 2022 (vote Sat 9 Apr): 'results published by The Gambia's independent electoral commission on Sunday' 10 Apr, day 1, with the new Assembly due to be sworn in on Thursday 14 Apr (Al Jazeera, 10 Apr 2022). Al Jazeera then reported 19 NPP seats and 11 independents; the IEC's constituency results PDF shows 18 NPP winners and 12 independents, so early counts can be revised. We found no statutory deadline: the Elections Act, 2025 was not available to read online. The window runs to the end of Friday 16 Apr 2027, day 6, erring late beyond the 2022 precedent. The floor (20:00 UTC on polling night) is an estimate. Challenges: the Supreme Court has exclusive original jurisdiction over whether a person was validly elected to the National Assembly (Constitution s.127(1)(c)); it acts only on a petition and does not otherwise confirm the result. We could not read the petition deadline in the Elections Act, 2025." }, "stages": [ { "stage": "election-night", "from": "2027-04-10T17:00:00Z", "by": "2027-04-11T23:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "IEC (iec.gm, Voting Procedures): 'Polls open at 8.00 am and close at 5.00pm', and voters still queuing at 5 pm may vote. The Gambia is UTC+0 with no DST, so polls close at 17:00 UTC. Votes are counted at each polling station; the constituency collation centre adds up the polling-station results and hands them to the Regional Electoral Officer (iec.gm, Counting Procedures). Constituency results are declared one by one from polling night. 2022: Al Jazeera, 9 Apr 2022, 'Results are expected on Sunday'; the IEC published results on Sunday 10 Apr 2022, day 1 (Al Jazeera, 10 Apr 2022). The window closes at the end of Sunday 11 Apr 2027. These are seat-by-seat declarations as they arrive, not the IEC's complete result for all 53 seats.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2027-04-10T20:00:00Z", "by": "2027-04-16T23:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "53 members are elected in single-member constituencies by first past the post; five more are nominated by the President (Constitution s.88), so they are not part of this count. Returning officers declare each constituency; the IEC publishes the full list. 2022 (vote Sat 9 Apr): 'results published by The Gambia's independent electoral commission on Sunday' 10 Apr, day 1, with the new Assembly due to be sworn in on Thursday 14 Apr (Al Jazeera, 10 Apr 2022). Al Jazeera then reported 19 NPP seats and 11 independents; the IEC's constituency results PDF shows 18 NPP winners and 12 independents, so early counts can be revised. We found no statutory deadline: the Elections Act, 2025 was not available to read online. The window runs to the end of Friday 16 Apr 2027, day 6, erring late beyond the 2022 precedent. The floor (20:00 UTC on polling night) is an estimate. Challenges: the Supreme Court has exclusive original jurisdiction over whether a person was validly elected to the National Assembly (Constitution s.127(1)(c)); it acts only on a petition and does not otherwise confirm the result. We could not read the petition deadline in the Elections Act, 2025.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://iec.gm/cat_doc/election-results/", "role": "results-final", "kind": "results_index", "kindReason": "results section without an election code", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "IEC index of official results documents. It is an index, not a page for this election. On 25 Sep 2026 there was no 2027 results page and no live results feed. The 2022 National Assembly results are a constituency-level PDF at https://iec.gm/ova_doc/results-of-national-assembly-elections-9th-april-2022/ (uploaded to iec.gm in July 2025, so it is not evidence of 2022 timing).", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-09-25T05:17:00Z" } }, { "url": "https://iec.gm/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ELECTORALCALENDAR2026-2027.pdf", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "IEC Electoral Calendar 2026-2027 (Oct 2025), section III 'National Assembly Elections 2027': Election Day 10 April 2027 (CONS 96(1)); Gazette Election Notice 21 January 2027 (EA 40); nominations 6-14 March 2027; campaign 18 March - 8 April 2027; cooling-off day 9 April 2027. It lists nothing after polling day. 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