# HCC declares Rajoelina elected with 58.96 percent after a boycotted poll

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 1 December 2023 Madagascar’s High Constitutional Court declared [Andry Rajoelina](/people/andry-rajoelina) elected with 2,858,947 votes (58.96 percent) after the 16 November poll. Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko was recorded at 14.39 percent. Turnout was 46.35 percent. Ten of thirteen candidates had boycotted. This page does not invent a unique fraud integer.

## Context

He ran. CENI had provisionally recorded 58.9 percent on 25 November. HCC dismissed challenges. Siteny and Marc Ravalomanana are unresolved.

16 November poll; 25 November CENI provisional; 1 December HCC. Stored as one 1 December 2023 Fact. Keep HCC declares Rajoelina elected with 58.96 percent after a boycotted poll on 2023-12-01 separate from neighbouring CENI, HCC, and 2025-impeachment instruments.

The president of Madagascar was head of state through the 2023 poll. He could run, accept a CENI/HCC return, and issue a dissolution decree. He does not write an HCC judgment, and he does not invent a unique 2025 protest-death integer here. He is not in office at the 2026 apply date.

## Evidence and sources

Reuters (recording HCC) carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed 58.96 percent certification after a boycott and historically low turnout.

## What is established and what is not

Established: HCC declared 58.96 percent on 1 December 2023. Turnout was 46.35 percent. Ten candidates boycotted.

Not established: A unique fraud integer, or that 58.96 percent is an ODIHR competitive finding.

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.

HCC wrote. CENI 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 HCC declares Rajoelina elected with 58.96 percent after a boycotted poll, not a later speech about HCC declares Rajoelina elected with 58.96 percent after a boycotted poll.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. HCC declares Rajoelina elected with 58.96 percent after a boycotted poll on 2023-12-01 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters (recording HCC) 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 HCC declares Rajoelina elected with 58.96 percent after a boycotted poll into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was certified. HCC wrote. CENI 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

- Andry Rajoelina: https://factrail.ai/people/andry-rajoelina

## Drivers

- Rajoelina electoral contestation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/rajoelina-electoral-contestation
- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-leader-poised-third-term-after-boycotted-election-2023-11-25/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-leader-wins-presidential-vote-constitutional-court-says-2023-12-01/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mg-rajoelina-election-2023