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Sao Tome and Principe

Leadership

Portrait of Carlos Vila Nova
Carlos Vila Nova
President
Óscar Medeiros (VOA) · Photo source · Public domain
Portrait of Américo Ramos
Américo Ramos
Prime Minister
National Assembly of São Tomé and Príncipe · Photo source · Official portrait · reuse terms unverified

Carlos Vila Nova is president and Américo Ramos is the listed prime minister. The September 2026 parliamentary election produced no outright majority; government-formation updates require continued checking. Profile source

National government

The election commission’s provisional announcement allocated 24 seats to MLSTP, 23 to ADI, six to MCI-PUN and two to BASTA. CEN announcement reported by the national news agency

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE · ELECTIONS & REPRESENTATION

Votes, seats & parliament

Dated source snapshot

Explore Sao Tome and Principe’s recorded parliamentary results and how each chamber is selected. Leadership portraits appear above; the charts below show seats reported in the linked election records.

Chambers recorded11 not marked suspended in this source
Directly elected1Other chambers may use a different selection method
Results coverage1 / 1Chambers with a party-seat breakdown

These are dated election records, not live chamber membership. By-elections, vacancies, appointments and changes of party may alter the current composition. A seat total can cover only the seats allocated in that result; it does not automatically represent the full statutory chamber.

Directly elected

National Assembly

Recorded selection · 27 September 2026

55seats shown
MLSTP24
ADI23
MCI-PUN coalition6
BASTA2

Each seat icon represents one reported seat. Colours distinguish parties within this chart; the arc is a visual grouping, not a seating plan.

Largest allocation in this resultMLSTP24 of 55 reported seats. This alone does not identify a governing coalition.

Provisional allocation announced by the National Electoral Commission on 29 September 2026. No party won an outright majority. This chart is labelled provisional pending a direct check of the final allocation.

Next recorded renewal projection30 September 2030A source projection, not a confirmed polling-day announcement.
View the source record ↗

Regional election maps require separately verified geographic results. National seat totals are shown here without inferring regional winners.

Inter-Parliamentary Union: Parliamentary elections, November 2026. Terms of use · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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