Côte d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential elections in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, October 25, 2025. MISPER APAWU / AP
Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77% in an election that his two greatest rivals were barred from, the electoral commission said on Monday, October 27.
Nearly nine million voters were eligible to cast their ballot Saturday in the world's top cocoa producer, which has resisted coups and jihadist attacks plaguing much of West Africa but which saw tensions soar and deadly violence in the run-up to the election.
Even before the provisional results' announcement, Ouattara was already anticipated to have swept the polls, after early tallies on Sunday showed him winning upwards of 90% of the vote. Turnout was close to 100% in his northern strongholds. The political veteran was also ahead in traditionally pro-opposition areas in the south and parts of the economic hub Abidjan, where polling stations had been almost empty on Saturday.
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