2008 Cuban parliamentary election
20 January 2008
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All 614 seats in the National Assembly of People's Power | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 8,495,577 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 96.89% ( 0.75pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.