2014 Tunisian presidential election

2014 Tunisian presidential election
23 November 2014 (first round)
21 December 2014 (second round)
Registered5,285,625
Turnout63.18% (first round)
60.34% (second round)
 
Candidate Beji Caid Essebsi Moncef Marzouki
Party Nidaa Tounes CPR
Popular vote 1,731,529 1,378,513
Percentage 55.68% 44.32%
President before election

Moncef Marzouki
CPR

 Elected President

Beji Caid Essebsi
Nidaa Tounes

Presidential elections were held in Tunisia on 23 November 2014, a month after parliamentary elections. They were the first free and fair presidential elections since the country gained independence in 1956, and the first direct presidential elections after the Tunisian Revolution of 2011 and the adoption of a new Constitution in January 2014.

As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a second round between incumbent Moncef Marzouki and Nidaa Tounes candidate Beji Caid Essebsi took place on 21 December. Official results released on 22 December showed that Essebsi won the elections with 56% of the vote.

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