1997 Yemeni parliamentary election

1997 Yemeni parliamentary election
27 April 1997
All 301 seats in the House of Representatives
151 seats needed for a majority
Turnout60.96% ( 23.96pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
GPC Ali Abdullah Saleh 43.10 187 +64
Al-Islah Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar 23.39 53 −9
NUPO Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi 2.03 3 +2
Ba'ath Party 0.75 2 −5
Independents – 29.54 54 +7
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
GPC		 Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 1997 to elect all 301 members of the House of Representatives for a six-year term. The governing General People's Congress of President Ali Abdullah Saleh won a landslide victory, taking 187 of the 301 seats, although several opposition parties including the Yemeni Socialist Party boycotted the election alleging that the government had harassed and arrested their party workers. The main opposition party, al-Islah, attacked the government for not carrying out economic reforms and for corruption. Voter turnout was 61.0%.

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