Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally

The Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally (French: Parti Démocratique de Guinée-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain) is a political party in Guinea that dominated Guinean politics under a one-party state system.^[1] The party was founded as a branch of the African Democratic Rally (RDA) in June 1947.^[2] On 19 October 1958, the party severed its links with the RDA, other members of which supported a closer union with France.^[3] The party's leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré, became the country's first president. Two years later, he declared the PDG to be the sole legal party in the country. As president of the PDG, Touré was the only candidate for president of the republic, and as such was elected unopposed to four seven-year terms. Every five years, a single list of PDG candidates was returned to the National Assembly. After the death of Touré and a coup staged by Lansana Conté in 1984, the PDG was dissolved.

Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally Parti Démocratique de Guinée-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain
Abbreviation	PDG-RDA
Leader	Ismael Gushein
Co-founder	Ahmed Sékou Touré
Founded	June 1947
Headquarters	Conakry, Guinea
Newspaper	Horoya [fr]
Ideology	African nationalism African socialism Pan-Africanism[citation needed]
International affiliation	African Democratic Rally
Politics of Guinea Political parties Elections

In 1992, PDG-RDA was revived under the leadership of Ismael Gushein. In the parliamentary election held on 30 June 2002, the party won 3.4% of the popular vote and 3 out of 114 seats.^[4]

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1961	Ahmed Sékou Touré	1,576,580	100%	Elected Y
1968		1,990,726	100%	Elected Y
1974		2,432,129	100%	Elected Y
1982		3,063,692	100%	Elected Y
1993	Ismael Gushein	11,696	0.6%	Lost N

National Assembly elections

Election	Party leader	Votes		%	Seats	+/–	Position	Result
1957	Ahmed Sékou Touré	584,438		77.4%	56 / 60	56	1st	Supermajority government
1963				100%	75 / 75	19	1st	Sole legal party
1968		1,990,726		100%	75 / 75		1st	Sole legal party
1974		2,432,129		100%	150 / 150	75	1st	Sole legal party
1980		2,393,600		100%	210 / 210	60	1st	Sole legal party
1995	Ismael Gushein	Proportional	57,942	3%	2 / 114	208	6th	Opposition
		Constituency
2002		Proportional	107,666	3.4%	3 / 114	1	4th	Opposition
		Constituency
2013		Constituency	19,603	0.66%	0 / 114	3	20rd	Extra-parliamentary
		Proportional	10,539	0.33%
2020		Constituency			1 / 114	1	23rd	Opposition
		Proportional	27,640	0.96%

See also

• African Democratic Party of Guinea

References

1. Kilson, Martin L. (1963). "Authoritarian and Single-Party Tendencies in African Politics". World Politics. 15 (2): 262–294. doi:10.2307/2009376. ISSN 1086-3338. JSTOR 2009376. S2CID 154624186.
2. Thomas O'Toole, Historical Dictionary of Guinea, 1978, p. 55
3. O'Toole, p. 60
4. "Elections in Guinea". Retrieved 2007-02-24.