Junta leader Doumbouya declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election

General Mamdi Doumbouya, the leader of the Junta, has been proclaimed the winner of Guinea’s presidential election, according to incomplete results announced late Tuesday.

The election is the first since the coup that deposed President Alpha Condé in 2021, and it is widely regarded as a strategy of legitimising Doumbouya’s continued rule.

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Incomplete figures reported on Tuesday awarded him 86.7% of the votes counted thus far.

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“After centralizing, verifying, and compiling the provisional results of the first round of the presidential election on December 22, 2025, acting in strict compliance with the law, I hereby declare that Mr. Mamadi Doumbouya, candidate of the GMD, having obtained an absolute majority of the valid votes cast, is provisionally declared elected in the presidential election of December 28, 2025,” Djenabou Touré, of Guinea’s General Directorate of Elections, told reporters on Tuesday.

Doumbouya faced eight other candidates but the opposition has been weakened by a crackdown on dissent and the dissolution of more than 50 political parties. Major opposition candidates were either barred from running or are in exile.

Yéro Baldé, a former education minister in Condé’s government, came a distant second with 6.5 percent of the votes.

The directorate said that 80.9 percent of the 6.7 million registered voters had cast their ballots.

The vote was held under a new constitution approved in a referendum in September. It revokes a ban on military leaders running for office and extends the presidential term from five years to seven.

Despite Guinea’s rich mineral resources — including as the world’s biggest exporter of bauxite, used to make aluminum — more than half of its 15 million people are experiencing record levels of poverty and food insecurity, according to the World Food Program.