{ "data": { "id": "maldives-legislative-2029", "country": "MV", "country_name": "Maldives", "level": "national", "subdivision": null, "subdivision_name": null, "date": "2029-04-21", "date_status": "tentative", "kind": "legislative", "conditional": null, "timezone": "Indian/Maldives", "status": "scheduled", "last_verified_at": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z", "stale": false, "stale_reason": null, "provenance": { "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-02: Constitution of Maldives 2008 arts. 79-80 (functional English translation, ICNL copy); Elections (General) Act 11/2008 ss.43, 57, 60, 61, 64, 65 (Elections Commission consolidated translation); Elections Commission parliamentary-election page and announcements 107, 116, 123-142, 850; results.elections.gov.mv 2024 dashboard; Adhadhu 28 May 2024 (first sitting)", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)" }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/maldives-legislative-2029", "races": [ { "id": "majlis", "key": "maldives-legislative-2029/majlis", "name": "People's Majlis", "body": "legislature-unicameral", "seats": 93, "seats_provisional": true, "polls_close_utc": "2029-04-21T12:30:00Z", "authority": { "id": "mv-ec", "name": "Elections Commission of Maldives", "name_local": "އިލެކްޝަންސް ކޮމިޝަން", "role": "electoral-commission", "homepage": "https://www.elections.gov.mv/", "results_index": "https://results.elections.gov.mv/", "open_data": null }, "status": "scheduled", "expected_stage_now": null, "observed": false, "final_observed": null, "final_expected": { "from": "2029-04-22T19:00:00Z", "by": "2029-04-30T18:59:59Z", "confidence": "announced", "basis": "Elections (General) Act 11/2008 s.61: 'Within seven (7) days of the day of elections, the Elections Commission shall confirm the results of the election, and publicly announce the official results of the election and publish it in the government gazette', naming the persons elected - by 28 Apr 2029 for a 21 Apr vote, which is also the art. 79(b) deadline. 2024 precedent: the official results ('ރަސްމީ ނަތީޖާ'), one announcement per atoll and city, seen (elections.gov.mv/announcements/123 to 142) are all dated 25 Apr 2024, day 4; 93 members were sworn in on 28 May 2024 (adhadhu.com/54296); the seat count follows the constituency delimitation and may change for 2029. A tie in a constituency needs a run-off there (Parliamentary Elections Act 2/2009, per secondary sources; not read). The opening (start of day 2, local) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of 30 Apr 2029, Maldives time, two days past the statutory deadline. Petitions against a result lie to the High Court within 14 days of the official announcement, judgment within 30 days, and can order fresh voting in an area (ss.64-65); no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage. The Maldives has a presidential system: the cabinet does not depend on the Majlis election, so there is no government stage." }, "last_final": null, "previous": null, "stages": [ { "stage": "election-night", "from": "2029-04-21T12:30:00Z", "by": "2029-04-22T18:59:59Z", "replacedAt": "2029-04-30T18:59:59Z", "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "Polling hours are set by the Elections Commission (Elections (General) Act s.43). 2024: 08:00-17:30 Maldives time after the Commission extended the close by 1 h 30 min (announcement (IUL)38-AC/38/2024/253 of 17 Apr 2024, elections.gov.mv/announcements/107; India and Sri Lanka 08:30-18:00, Malaysia 11:00-20:30 local, all 12:30 UTC). pollsCloseUtc assumes 17:30 MVT (UTC+5, no DST) = 12:30 UTC, an ESTIMATE until the Commission announces the hours. Boxes are counted on site after the close, results sent to Male', and the Commission announces box results and provisional constituency results (ss.57, 60); the results dashboard fills on the night. 2024 precedent: the Commission's provisional-results announcement ('ވަގުތީ ނަތީޖާ', per-atoll PDFs) is dated 22 Apr 2024, the day after polling (elections.gov.mv/announcements/116). The window closes at the end of the day after polling, Maldives time. Provisional, not the official result.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2029-04-22T19:00:00Z", "by": "2029-04-30T18:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "announced", "citation": "Elections (General) Act 11/2008 s.61: 'Within seven (7) days of the day of elections, the Elections Commission shall confirm the results of the election, and publicly announce the official results of the election and publish it in the government gazette', naming the persons elected - by 28 Apr 2029 for a 21 Apr vote, which is also the art. 79(b) deadline. 2024 precedent: the official results ('ރަސްމީ ނަތީޖާ'), one announcement per atoll and city, seen (elections.gov.mv/announcements/123 to 142) are all dated 25 Apr 2024, day 4; 93 members were sworn in on 28 May 2024 (adhadhu.com/54296); the seat count follows the constituency delimitation and may change for 2029. A tie in a constituency needs a run-off there (Parliamentary Elections Act 2/2009, per secondary sources; not read). The opening (start of day 2, local) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of 30 Apr 2029, Maldives time, two days past the statutory deadline. Petitions against a result lie to the High Court within 14 days of the official announcement, judgment within 30 days, and can order fresh voting in an area (ss.64-65); no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage. The Maldives has a presidential system: the cabinet does not depend on the Majlis election, so there is no government stage.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://results.elections.gov.mv/", "role": "results-live", "kind": "results_index", "kindReason": "results host, but its root lists many elections", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Elections Commission results host (index, not a page for this election). On 2 Oct 2026 its root redirected to the most recent election's dashboard. Each election gets a dashboard at /Results/SpecificElection?UniqueId=; the 2024 Majlis election was UniqueId=2697D0F8-78E0-4C75-BC11-584D431579F2 (linked from elections.gov.mv/en/elections/parliamentary/5). The 2029 GUID cannot be predicted. Official results are published as Commission announcements (in 2024 one per atoll/city, 'ރަސްމީ ނަތީޖާ') and in the Government Gazette.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.elections.gov.mv/en/elections/parliamentary", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Elections Commission parliamentary-election pages (calendar, candidates, announcements per election). On 2 Oct 2026 only the 21 Apr 2024 election was listed; no 2029 calendar yet.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.icnl.org/wp-content/uploads/Maldives_constmal.pdf", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Constitution of Maldives 2008 (functional English translation, ICNL copy). DATE (tentative, latest lawful date): art. 79(a) 'The People's Majlis shall continue for five years from the date of its first sitting, and shall then stand dissolved'; the 20th Majlis held its first sitting and was sworn in on Tue 28 May 2024 (Adhadhu, 28 May 2024, adhadhu.com/54296), so it stands dissolved on 28 May 2029. Art. 79(b): 'Election of members to the new People's Majlis and all matters pertaining thereto shall be concluded thirty days prior to the expiration of the existing People's Majlis', i.e. by 28 Apr 2029. The Commission must confirm and gazette the official result within 7 days of polling (Elections (General) Act s.61), so the latest polling day that lets the result be final by 28 Apr is Sat 21 Apr 2029, used here. If 'all matters' is read to include the 14-day window for High Court petitions (s.64(b)), polling would have to be earlier, about 7 Apr 2029. 2024 precedent: polling Sun 21 Apr 2024, official results 25 Apr, first sitting 28 May (37 days after polling). Art. 80: in a state of emergency the Majlis may extend its term by up to one year by a two-thirds resolution. A 2026 amendment that would have shortened this term and merged the Majlis election with the 2028 presidential election was rejected in the 4 Apr 2026 referendum (68.74% 'No'; Commission official result, announcement (IUL)38-AC/38/2026/494, elections.gov.mv/announcements/850).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.elections.gov.mv/uploads/Elections%20(General)%20Act%20-%20Consolidated%20_28082023-70f54cd28fc6b518e998.pdf", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Elections (General) Act (Law 11/2008), consolidated to 28 Aug 2023: s.43 (polling hours set by the Commission), ss.57, 60 (provisional results), s.61 (official result within 7 days, Gazette), ss.64-65 (High Court petitions within 14 days, judgment within 30 days). The Parliamentary Elections Act (Law 2/2009) was not read: the Commission's archive copy (archive.elections.gov.mv) did not respond on 2 Oct 2026.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Maldives", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "No article for the 2029 election yet; '2029 Maldivian parliamentary election' redirects here.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.elections.gov.mv/", "role": "authority-home", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "authority", "check": null } ], "page_activity": [], "government": null, "results": [], "live_count": null, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/maldives-legislative-2029#majlis" } ] }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-10-02.be7d6f40", "built_at": "2026-10-02T15:42:24Z", "generated_at": "2026-10-02T18:13:29.731Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Global Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }