# Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 53.66 percent for an eighth term

Date: 2025

## The fact

On 27 October 2025 Cameroon’s Constitutional Council proclaimed [Paul Biya](/people/paul-biya) winner of the 12 October presidential election with 2,474,179 votes (53.66 percent). Issa Tchiroma Bakary was recorded at 35.19 percent. Turnout was stated at 57.76 percent.

## Context

He ran at 92. The Council tabulated. Tchiroma is named; he is not minted. Biya was inaugurated on 6 November 2025.

12 October poll; 27 October proclamation; 6 November inauguration. Stored as one 2025 election Fact. Keep Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 53.66 percent for an eighth term on 2025-10-27 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

Direction Générale du Trésor / official results neighbourhood carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed 53.66 percent eighth-term certification.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Constitutional Council proclaimed 53.66 percent on 27 October 2025 after the 12 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 53.66 percent for an eighth term, not a later speech about Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 53.66 percent for an eighth term.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Constitutional Council declares Biya winner with 53.66 percent for an eighth term on 2025-10-27 is not a licence to treat every later Direction Générale du Trésor / official results neighbourhood 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 53.66 percent for an eighth term 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://dgtcfm.cm/en/election-presidentielle-camerounaise-2025-biya-paul-reelu-avec-5366-des-voix/
- https://apnews.com/article/cameroon-protests-election-tchiroma-biya-885d5a2cd41164e37e760777946a60e7

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cm-election-2025