Vice President of the MaldivesHussain Mohamed Latheef People's Majlis Speaker Abdul Raheem AbdullaDeputy Speaker Ahmed Nazim Presidential elections Parliamentary elections Referendums Others Minister Moosa Zameer Parliamentary elections were held in the Maldives on 9 May 2009.

[1] Political parties in the Maldives were legalised on 2 June 2005 after a unanimous vote in the Majlis which allowed a multi-party system to contest presidential and parliamentary elections after 30 years of autocratic rule by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

[4][5][6] On 10 February 2009, the Majlis voted 36–0 (with one abstention) to pass the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill, which Nasheed signed into law later that day.

[7] In the law, each administrative atoll's population determines how many electoral constituencies will be created.

On 9 March 2009, the Elections Commission of the Maldives announced there were 214,405 eligible voters.