However, the USN claimed the figures for Djibouti city were falsified and released alternative results which would have reduced the UMP to 34 seats and increased their total from 10 to 31.

Instead the elections were held using closed list systems in which 80% of seats (rounded to the nearest integer) in each constituency were awarded to the party receiving the most votes.

The remaining seats were allocated proportionally to other parties receiving over 10% of the vote using the D'Hondt method.

[3] On 26 February 2013, UNS spokesman Daher Ahmed Farah said police fired tear gas on demonstrators that were protesting the election results.

Idriss Arnaoud Ali was re-elected without opposition as President of the National Assembly.