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    "id": "morocco-general-2026",
    "country": "MA",
    "country_name": "Morocco",
    "date": "2026-09-23",
    "date_status": "declared",
    "kind": "general",
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    "timezone": "Africa/Casablanca",
    "status": "finalising",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-09-24T20:10:10Z",
    "stale": false,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "provenance": {
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      "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
      "importedAt": "2026-09-23T20:50:47Z"
    },
    "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/morocco-general-2026",
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        "id": "house",
        "key": "morocco-general-2026/house",
        "name": "House of Representatives",
        "body": "legislature-lower",
        "seats": 395,
        "polls_close_utc": "2026-09-23T18:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
          "id": "ma-interior",
          "name": "Ministry of the Interior",
          "name_local": "Ministère de l'Intérieur",
          "role": "ministry",
          "homepage": "https://www.elections.ma/",
          "results_index": null,
          "open_data": null
        },
        "status": "finalising",
        "expected_stage_now": "final-result",
        "observed": false,
        "final_expected": {
          "from": "2026-09-24T11:00:00Z",
          "by": "2026-10-09T22:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "estimate",
          "basis": "In 2021 the provisional seat counts changed afterwards (RNI 97 → 102, PAM 82 → 86), so the provisional count is not the final one. The 2026 statement calls its figures provisional (MAP, 24 Sep 2026). No official statement of when the final table will be published was found; elections.ma could not be read. Le Brief (24 Sep 2026) writes that the results become final only after the Constitutional Court has examined appeals. The date the final 2021 table was published is not verified. The end of Wednesday 30 Sep 2026 (local) is an estimate. IPU Parline's 2026 election page id is unconfirmed; ElectionGuide lists the election as id 5083. Window extended on 24 Sep 2026 from 30 Sep to the end of 9 Oct (local): with no official date, the rule is to err late. Pulse re-minted its Morocco seat questions to resolve on 2 Oct, and Le Brief (24 Sep 2026) reports the results are final only after the Constitutional Court has examined appeals."
        },
        "stages": [
          {
            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2026-09-23T18:00:00Z",
            "by": "2026-09-24T11:00:00Z",
            "replacedAt": "2026-09-24T11:00:00Z",
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "What happened in 2026: the Interior Minister announced the provisional seat totals at the ministry during the night of 23–24 Sep. MAP on maroc.ma (24 Sep) says 'late Wednesday night'. SNRT News, the public broadcaster, reports the announcement at the ministry's headquarters in an article stamped 24/09/2026 03:46 local (02:46Z). No official source gives the exact time, so observedAt is left empty. Window basis: in 2021 the Interior Minister announced provisional seat counts after 96% of ballots were counted, reported on 9 Sep 2021, the day after polling day. The 2026 close at 19:00 local (UTC+1) is an assumption; the ministry's voter notices state the hours.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2026-09-24T11:00:00Z",
            "by": "2026-10-09T22:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "In 2021 the provisional seat counts changed afterwards (RNI 97 → 102, PAM 82 → 86), so the provisional count is not the final one. The 2026 statement calls its figures provisional (MAP, 24 Sep 2026). No official statement of when the final table will be published was found; elections.ma could not be read. Le Brief (24 Sep 2026) writes that the results become final only after the Constitutional Court has examined appeals. The date the final 2021 table was published is not verified. The end of Wednesday 30 Sep 2026 (local) is an estimate. IPU Parline's 2026 election page id is unconfirmed; ElectionGuide lists the election as id 5083. Window extended on 24 Sep 2026 from 30 Sep to the end of 9 Oct (local): with no official date, the rule is to err late. Pulse re-minted its Morocco seat questions to resolve on 2 Oct, and Le Brief (24 Sep 2026) reports the results are final only after the Constitutional Court has examined appeals.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "government",
            "from": "2026-09-24T23:00:00Z",
            "by": null,
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Constitution art. 47: the King appoints the head of government from the party that comes first. 2021: Aziz Akhannouch was appointed on 10 Sep, two days after polling day.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.elections.ma/",
            "role": "results-live",
            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Ministry of the Interior's election portal (homepage). On 24 Sep 2026 it could not be read from here: Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' (HTTP 403) via curl, a real Chrome session and the Wayback Machine (snapshot 2026-09-23T17:11:30Z also a block page). No per-election or per-constituency results URL on elections.ma could be seen or found in search.",
            "check": {
              "status": 403,
              "state": "blocked",
              "at": "2026-09-24T18:34:59Z"
            }
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.maroc.ma/en/news/2026-legislative-elections-pam-leads-97-seats-according-preliminary-results-minister-interior",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "race_results",
            "kindReason": "election code and results marker",
            "resolvable": true,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "MAP dispatch of 24 Sep 2026 on the government portal maroc.ma: the Interior Minister's statement with the provisional national seat totals by party (395 seats) and a turnout of 38.08%. It is the only official text of the provisional result that could be read. It is listed as see-also, not results-live, because it is a one-off article that will not be updated: watching it could never show the final result. The classifier rates it race_results.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.cour-constitutionnelle.ma/Decisions?Inst=4&CC=2&spec=200&Page=Decision",
            "role": "court-validation",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitutional Court decisions, category 'المنازعات الانتخابية' (electoral disputes). The court rules on challenges to individual seats. No 2026 decision is listed yet.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Moroccan_general_election",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "check": null
          }
        ],
        "page_activity": [],
        "government": {
          "precedentDays": [
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          ],
          "note": "The King appoints the head of government from the party that came first (Constitution art. 47); forming the government itself takes weeks (2021: appointed 10 Sep, government named 7 Oct)."
        },
        "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/morocco-general-2026#house"
      }
    ]
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