2018 Nouakchott regional election

2018 Nouakchott regional election
1 September 2018 (2018-09-01) (first round)
15 September 2018 (2018-09-15) (second round)
All 37 seats in the Regional Council of Nouakchott
19 seats needed for a majority
Turnout63.73% (first round)
40.76% (second round)
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour
Party UPR Tewassoul
Alliance FNDU
Seats won 19 18
Popular vote 50,435 48,188
Percentage 49.09% 46.90%
Elected President of the Regional Council

Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick
UPR

Regional elections were held on 1 September 2018, with a second round on 15 September 2018, to elect the 37 members of the newly-formed Regional Council of Nouakchott, created after the 2017 Mauritanian constitutional referendum in replacement of the Senate and the Urban Community of Nouakchott. They were part of the 2018 Mauritanian regional elections.

Ex-mayor of Tevragh-Zeina Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick, running for the ruling party Union for the Republic won a narrow majority on the second round against Mohamed Jamil Ould Mansour, the opposition-backed candidate and previous leader of the Islamist Tewassoul party.

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