Elections in Somalia gives information on election and election results in Somalia. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
See election for a more comprehensive discussion and the List of democracy and elections-related topics for an overview on related topics.
Somalia is country in transition. Political parties don't play a role yet. The president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has been appointed by an interim-parliament formed in 2004, the Transitional Federal Parliament. This Transitional Federal Parliament has 275 members, with each of Somalia's four major clans getting 61 seats in the parliament, while an alliance of minority clans was awarded 31 seats. De facto the state is an anarchy with only loose governmental structures. Main groups were the two factions of the United Somali Congress, the Somali National Movement the Somali Democratic Movement and the Somali Patriotic Movement.
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