President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) and its allies swept all seats in the 100-member Chamber of Deputies and all the 55 elected seats in the 70-member Senate (see note 1). In the presidential elections held in parallel with parliamentary polls (see note 2), Mr. Obiang, 80, was re-elected for a sixth term in office, extending his 43-year rule. According to official statistics, the incumbent was re-elected with 97% of the vote. An opposition candidate, Mr. Andres Esono Ondo of the Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), took 2.3%.

No major opposition parties ran in the 2022 parliamentary elections (see note 3). Prior to the elections, the government arrested several opposition activists whom the government accused of planning "attacks" against "gas stations, Western embassies and the homes of ministers”.

Note 1:
The statutory number of members of the Senate is 70: 55 directly elected and 15 appointed by the President. However, the Senate may comprise ex-officio members, whose number varies during the lifetime of each legislature. The total number of senators may thus be higher than 70.

Note 2:
On 20 September 2022, the government brought forward the presidential election by five months to 20 November, so that it would run at the same time as the parliamentary elections. The government said it was necessary to group the polls together so as to save cost amid the economic crisis, triggered by the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Note 3:
The Citizens' Party for Innovation (CI), which had taken one seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 elections, was officially dissolved in May 2018. Over 20 activists, including the sole MP, Mr. Jesus Mitogo, were sentenced to 30 years in jail for “sedition, public disorder, attacks on authority and serious bodily harm” relating to confrontations with the police (which took place shortly before the 2017 elections) and a coup attempt in December 2018.