2025 Guinea-Bissau general election

General elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 23 November 2025 to elect the president and members of the National People's Assembly. Separate parliamentary and presidential elections were planned. Parliamentary elections had been scheduled for 24 November 2024 after President Umaro Sissoco Embaló dissolved the opposition-controlled parliament on 4 December 2023 following the 2023 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt. However, Embaló postponed the parliamentary elections in early November 2024. Presidential elections had been scheduled for December 2024. They were later also postponed and Embaló's term ended on 27 February 2025. However, he remained in power and ran for re-election in late 2025. The opposition and civil society called it an "institutional coup".

Following the election, both Embaló and Fernando Dias, who had been endorsed by the main opposition party PAIGC, claimed victory in the presidential vote. However on 26 November, a coup d'état occurred a day before the official results were expected to be released, resulting in Embaló's arrest and the formation of the High Military Command for the Restoration of National Security and Public Order by the country's military. On 2 December, the National Electoral Commission announced the destruction of most of the election tallies by armed men, leaving it unable to release the results of the vote. However, Correio da Manhã obtained the minutes with the results, showing Dias had received around 10,000 more votes than Embaló.