# Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 71.28 percent

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 22 October 2018 Cameroon’s Constitutional Council proclaimed [Paul Biya](/people/paul-biya) winner of the 7 October presidential election with 2,521,934 votes (71.28 percent). Maurice Kamto was recorded at 14.23 percent. The Council had rejected opposition petitions.

## Context

He ran. The Council tabulated.

7 October poll; 22 October proclamation; 28 January 2019 Kamto arrest neighbourhood. Keep Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 71.28 percent on 2018-10-22 separate from neighbouring Biya instruments.

The president of Cameroon is head of state and commander-in-chief. He promulgates laws the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) has passed and is proclaimed by the Constitutional Council. He does not write Human Rights Watch reports, OHCHR mission annexes, Access Now filings, or AFP fact-checks.

## Evidence and sources

Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) carries the official instrument or communique. franceinfo (Reuters dispatch) records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed 71.28 percent certification in a crisis year.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Constitutional Council proclaimed 71.28 percent on 22 October 2018 after the 7 October poll.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Council tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 71.28 percent, not a later speech about Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 71.28 percent.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 71.28 percent on 2018-10-22 is not a licence to treat every later Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 71.28 percent into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was proclaimed. The Council tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Paul Biya: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-biya

## Drivers

- Biya Anglophone crisis and succession: https://factrail.ai/drivers/biya-anglophone-crisis-and-succession
- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/afrique/cameroun/paul-biya-reelu-president-du-cameroun-avec-71-des-voix_2998565.html
- https://www.elecam.cm/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cm-election-2018