Member State of the African Union General elections were held in Tunisia on 25 October 2009.
[1] Results released on 26 October 2009 indicated a substantial victory for incumbent President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who won the reelection for a fifth five-year term, and the governing Constitutional Democratic Rally.
It was the last election contested under the Ben Ali regime, prior to the Tunisian Revolution.
[6] In the presidential race, incumbent president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali won 89.62% of the vote.
[5] In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Democratic Constitutional Rally, which had governed continuously from Tunisia's independence from France in 1956 until the Tunisian Revolution, won 84.59% of the vote and 161 seats.