The Ivorian Constitutional Council on Tuesday, officially declared President Alassane Ouattara re-elected in the first round of the October 25 presidential election, with 89.77% of the votes.
The body confirmed the provisional results released earlier by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI).
Chantal Nanaba Camara, the President of the Constitutional Council — and the first woman to hold this position in Côte d’Ivoire — stated that the institution “received no complaints” and that “the review of the minutes revealed no irregularities likely to affect the integrity of the vote or alter the outcome.”
Madam Chantal Camara during the official session said: “The October 25, 2025 election was conducted properly, and Mr. Alassane Ouattara is hereby declared elected in the first round as President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire”.
According to the provisional results released by the CEI, President Ouattara secured 3,759,030 votes (89.77%), far ahead of his closest rival Jean-Louis Billon, who garnered 129,493 votes (3.09%).
Former First Lady Simone Ehivet received 101,238 votes (2.42%), while Ahoua Don Mello obtained 82,508 votes (1.97%), and Henriette Lagou collected 48,261 votes (1.15%). These figures were validated by the Constitutional Council.
Out of 8,568,456 registered voters, 4,292,474 people cast their ballots — a turnout rate of 50.10%, the Council confirmed. There were 105,156 invalid ballots and 66,588 blank votes out of 4,187,318 valid votes.
Following the announcement of the CEI’s provisional results, Jean-Louis Billon, an independent candidate, conceded defeat on Sunday, October 26, 2025, and congratulated Ouattara on his victory.
Facing four opposition candidates — Jean-Louis Billon, Ahoua Don Mello, Henriette Lagou, and former First Lady Simone Ehivet — the 83-year-old incumbent won by a landslide, both domestically and among Ivorians abroad, securing a fourth consecutive term.
Meanwhile, the PPA-CI/PDCI alliance, a coalition of Côte d’Ivoire’s two main opposition parties, had called for a boycott, denouncing what it called the “exclusion” of their leaders from the race — notably former president Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam.
On September 8, 2025, the Constitutional Council had published the final list of five approved candidates, including President Ouattara, whose bid for a fourth term the opposition decried as unconstitutional.
The candidacies of Laurent Gbagbo, head of the PPA-CI, and Tidjane Thiam, leader of the PDCI, both disqualified by judicial decisions, had been jointly presented as symbols of a hoped-for political alternation after their alliance in June 2025.
More than 8.5 million Ivorians were called to the polls on Saturday, October 25, 2025, to elect the next president from five contenders, including the incumbent Alassane Ouattara, now officially re-elected for another five-year term.
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