2008 Cuban parliamentary election

2008 Cuban parliamentary election

20 January 2008

All 614 seats in the National Assembly of People's Power
Registered8,495,577
Turnout96.89% ( 0.75pp)
  First party
 
Leader Fidel Castro
Party PCC
Seats won 614
Seat change 5
Popular vote 7,125,752
Percentage 90.90%
Swing 0.45 pp

President of the Council of Ministers before election

Fidel Castro
PCC

Elected President of the Council of Ministers

Raúl Castro
PCC

Parliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 20 January 2008 to elect members of the National Assembly of People's Power. According to the Cuban electoral system, one candidate was nominated for each of the 614 seats in the Assembly, and candidates were elected if they received at least 50% of the vote.

The date of the election was announced on 20 November 2007. It was considered uncertain whether the ailing Fidel Castro would run for the Assembly, which he had to do in order to continue as President; it emerged in early December that he had been nominated for a seat. Since his illness began in 2006, Raúl Castro had been acting president.