General Elections
The National Awakening party stood in the 1999 elections, winning 13 percent of the vote. In 2004 elections the party gained 10.57% (11.989.564) votes and 52 seats in the People's Representative Council. The party won 4.9 percent of the vote in the 2009 legislative election, and 27 seats in the legislature.
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