Government of Mauritania

Political mix

Seats by party in each chamber of Mauritania. One dot is one seat.

This page lists all 176 members of Mauritania's National Assembly (Al Jamiya-Al-Wataniya), the country's single chamber of parliament, whose 176 seats are all directly elected. The current Assembly was elected in two rounds on 13 and 27 May 2023 and sat for the first time on 19 June 2023, electing Mohamed Bemba Meguett as its president. Three quarters of the seats are filled in 53 district and department constituencies and the remaining 51 on national lists: 20 on an open national list, 20 on a list reserved for women and 11 on a list reserved for young candidates. Where the names come from. The list is the National Assembly's own roster of current deputies, published on its official site (assemblee-nationale.mr) and read on 22 October 2026. Each record on that roster carries the deputy's name, electoral district and party as the Assembly itself prints them, together with the Assembly's photograph of that deputy. The Assembly publishes the roster in Arabic and in French; this page uses the Assembly's own French rendering, so the spellings are the Assembly's transliterations and not ours. Nothing has been added, translated or corrected against another list. Portraits. Every portrait is the Assembly's own image for that member, taken from the same roster record and only resized. It is credited to the Assembly and linked back to the original file on every member page. Term start. The Assembly does not publish the date on which an individual deputy took their seat. The date shown on every page is the start of the current term, when the Assembly first sat on 19 June 2023 and elected its president, as recorded by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. A deputy who has taken a seat since then shows the same date, because the source gives us no other. Party labels and numbers. The party shown for each member is the label the Assembly prints on its current list, abbreviated where the Assembly abbreviates it. Counting the chamber as it stands today gives El Insaf 108, Tewassoul 11, the Union for Democracy and Progress 10, the Republican Front for Unity and Democracy 7, the National Democratic Alliance 6, El Islah 5, Nida El Watan 5, El Karama 5, Sawab 4 and the Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal 4, with El Vadila, HIWAR and HATEM on 3 each, PMM on 1 and one seat whose party the Assembly does not print. That differs from the declared result of the 2023 election, which the national electoral commission recorded as El Insaf 107 and Tewassoul 11 with smaller changes to the minor parties; five parties were also dissolved in October 2023 and members have since changed groups. Both the declared result and the seating as it stands today are shown side by side, and neither is treated as a correction of the other. Known differences from the commission's list. We could not reconcile the Assembly's current roster with the electoral commission's published list of the 176 members elected in 2023 member for member: some names are rendered differently in the two records, and a few seats carry a different party label or a different person. The Assembly's roster is printed as it stands, and we have not tried to identify which individual seats have changed hands since 2023, because no source we could read states it. What the source does not publish. The Assembly's roster carries no date of taking office for an individual deputy, no vote counts, no committee or office other than the president of the Assembly, and no biographical detail: the profession and biography fields on its own records are empty. None of these appear on member pages. One member, Moussa Mamadou Dia (Wompou), carries no party on the Assembly's list and is shown as not given. Regions. The Assembly's roster prints each member's electoral district and no other geographic division. The region shown on member pages is looked up from Mauritania's official departmental division, which groups the country's 63 departments into 15 regions: a district seat takes the region its department belongs to, and the 51 national-list seats and the four seats abroad (Africa, America, Asia, Europe) have no region. That lookup is ours and is not part of the Assembly's record.