Overview
- Election officials announced on June 21–22 that the Prosperity Party won 438 seats after ballots from 501 of 547 constituencies were counted, giving the party an overwhelming parliamentary majority and setting the stage for a new legislature to reconvene in October to reelect the prime minister.
- Voting saw roughly 40 million ballots cast out of about 54 million registered voters, but polling did not take place in the Tigray region and 143 polling stations in Amhara and Oromia failed to open because of security concerns.
- Opposition figures and observers said the campaign was skewed by arrests, harassment, weak funding for rivals, and cases where the Prosperity Party ran unopposed in many constituencies, charges the government denies.
- Security groups reported heavy clashes on election day, with ACLED recording at least 90 clashes involving Fano in Amhara and conflict between the Oromo Liberation Army and federal forces in Oromia that witnesses say killed civilians, underlining how violence directly disrupted voting.
- Analysts warn the combined effect of political exclusion, unresolved regional grievances and frayed ties with Tigrayan leaders and Eritrea could deepen instability and harm civilians through renewed fighting and constrained access to aid.