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"then"[edit]

The term is used to refer to after the fact not to standing president. As of today at least campaore is still president (it may change but with the French already taking action its wait-nand-see)Lihaas (talk) 19:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as far as I am aware, he is still president. However, the text in question is referring to the year 2000 and who was president then. Current status is wholly irrelevant to that paragraph. Number 5 7 20:42, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yiouve been vindicated anyhow.

Alls well that ends well...and heres to many more cooperations ;)Lihaas (talk) 14:44, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Low quality images of candidates needed[edit]

Low quality images of candidates should be added to this page. I ask for low quality images because these will be fair use images. Please help if you can.Monopoly31121993 (talk) 12:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ECOWAS court ruling[edit]

The ECOWAS court ruling can be found at [1].----Bancki (talk) 11:03, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong article name[edit]

Hello.

"Burkinabé" is the demonym. We have the United States presidential election, 2016, not the "American presidential election, 2016". This article should be at "Burkina Faso general election, 2015".

HandsomeFella (talk) 22:31, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@HandsomeFella: The demonym is supposed to be used – see WP:NC-GAL#Elections and referendums ("For elections and referendums, use the format "Demonym type election/referendum, date""). It's actually the American article which is at the wrong title, and I believe this is a legacy of some editors claiming that the phrase "American" is ambiguous in terms of which country it refers to :s. I would be quite happy to see the American articles renamed. Number 5 7 22:43, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Results[edit]

Was there any change to the electoral law? The table here show empty columns, but as far as I know the voters only cast one vote, and it then goes to both the regional and national seats repartition, as shown in the previous election page.--Aréat (talk) 00:53, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Aréat: You may be right. I was planning on adding up all the provincial results, and if they had equalled the national votes, I would have combined the columns. However, I never got round to it. I can't find anything definitive either way on whether a single ballot was used or not. Number 5 7 11:19, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

According to this source, there was only one vote for each election - presidential and legislatives - "Le premier votant, Hamidou Zongo, un commerçant de 33 ans, a déposé ses deux bulletins – un pour la présidentielle et un pour les législatives – dans les deux urnes". Same for this one "Après avoir présenté sa carte d’électeur, le votant fera d’abord son choix pour l’élection présidentielle, puis pour les législatives, avec deux bulletins distincts à glisser dans deux urnes différentes.". Burkina Faso had apparently adopted a sole ballot system for each election as far as 2012 [2]. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 01:59, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]