Member State of the Arab League Presidential elections were held in Mauritania on 21 June 2014, with a second round planned for 5 July if no candidate received more than 50% of the vote.

[1] The result was a first round victory for incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the Union for the Republic, who received 82% of the vote.

[2] Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was the incumbent President of Mauritania at the time of the election and had been in office since 2009.

Following the 2008 coup, Abdel Aziz became President of the High Council of State as part of what was described as a political transition leading to a new election.

Although boycotted by opposition groups, the African Union praised the elections for taking place relatively peacefully.