Election
Cabo Verde 2021 Presidential Election
October 17, 2021
José Maria Neves won the presidency in the first round. The CNE's activity report documents the complete 1,294-polling-station tabulation, a correction and republication of the official result map, and an internal percentage discrepancy that this case preserves rather than conceals: the corrected map gives Neves 96,035 votes and 51.79%, while the later proclamation paragraph says 51.75%.
Official results
Percentages reproduce the corrected result map in the CNE report. In the same report, the proclamation paragraph gives José Maria Neves 51.75% instead of the corrected table's 51.79%; the vote total is 96,035 in both passages.
- José Maria Neves51.8%96,035
- Carlos Veiga42.4%78,603
- Casimiro de Pina1.8%3,345
- Fernando Delgado1.4%2,518
- Hélio Sanches1.2%2,134
- Gilson Alves0.8%1,410
- Joaquim Jaime Monteiro0.8%1,403
The Integrity Ledger
What the evidence establishes, and what it does not — side by side, each finding sourced and tiered.
What is established
- Statistical anomaliesConfirmed
The CNE report contains two different percentages for Neves: 51.79% in its corrected official result map and 51.75% in the proclamation narrative.
More detail
The underlying vote total is consistent at 96,035. The report also explains that the result map was corrected and republished after a rectification from the Santiago Norte intermediate tabulation assembly.
Sources:1
What is not established
No explicit negative findings recorded yet.
Process assessment
The CNE documented all 1,294 polling stations, the correction and republication of the result map, the candidate vote totals, blank and invalid ballots, and 47.99% turnout. The percentage inconsistency is treated as a source-document limitation, not evidence of result manipulation.