The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has released official, partial results for 22 parliamentary and regional constituencies, revealing a dominant sweep by the ruling Prosperity Party across multiple regional states.
The announcement was made late Wednesday evening during a press briefing at the election board’s temporary headquarters inside the Skylight Hotel in the capital. The newly released data covers critical legislative and local seats across four major regions: Amhara, Central Ethiopia, Oromia, and the Somali regional state.
According to the election board's statement, the ruling Prosperity Party achieved a near-total victory in the vast majority of the contested districts.
In the central Ethiopian heartland of the Oromia region—historically a focal point of intense political competition—the Prosperity Party secured a clean sweep, capturing all nine regional council seats and seven federal parliamentary seats up for tallying. A similar pattern emerged in the Central Ethiopia region, where ruling party candidates took the highest share of votes across all three contested seats for the House of Peoples' Representatives.
The lack of robust institutional competition was further highlighted in the northern Amhara region's Gongon constituency. Election officials confirmed that the Prosperity Party ran completely unopposed to claim the area's sole federal parliamentary seat.
However, the Somali region offered a rare glimpse of political fragmentation. While Prosperity Party candidates successfully clinched the top positions in both of the region's contested provincial council seats, an opposition challenger managed a marginal breakthrough. A candidate fielded by the veteran regional opposition group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), managed to secure a fourth-place finish in the second constituency.
The latest wave of announcements comes amid the election board's ongoing efforts to finalize the counting and verification process nationwide. While opposition factions continue to raise long-standing concerns regarding the inclusivity and fairness of the broader electoral environment, the initial outcomes heavily reinforce the incumbent administration's legislative grip on both the regional assemblies and the federal parliament.
International observers and domestic civil society groups continue to monitor the remaining undeclared constituencies as the national board processes the final batches of ballots.
