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State of the parties
| Party |
1993 |
1997 |
2003 |
Change |
| General People's Congress |
123 |
187 |
238 |
+51* |
| Yemeni Alliance for Reform (al-Islah) |
62 |
53 |
46 |
-7 |
| Yemeni Socialist Party |
56 |
0 |
8 |
+8 |
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
7 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
| Nasserist parties |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
| Truth Party (al-Haqq) |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Independents |
47 |
54 |
4 |
-50* |
| (Election postponed) |
1 |
2 |
0 |
|
| TOTAL |
301 |
301 |
301 |
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Source: EMC
* Many of the successful
"independent" candidates in the 1997 election were considered to
have a party allegiance - which in practice gave the GPC an estimated 226
seats rather than the official total of 187 (see 1997
results). Taking this into account, the GPC probably gained only 14
seats in 2003.
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