United Nations Security Council election, 2015
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United Nations Security Council membership after the elections
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The 2015 United Nations Security Council election was held on 15 October 2015[1] during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The elections are for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2016. In accordance with the Security Council's rotation rules, whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:
- Two for Africa (held by Chad and Nigeria)
- One for the Asia-Pacific Group (held by Jordan)[2]
- One for Latin America and the Caribbean (held by Chile)
- One for the Eastern European Group (held by Lithuania)
The five members will serve on the Security Council for the 2016–17 period. The countries elected were Egypt, Senegal, Uruguay, Japan, and Ukraine. In each vote there were as many vacancies as there were candidates on the ballot.
This will be the last time a Security Council election will be held in the month of October.[1] On 18 September 2014, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 68/307 to push the elections back to six months prior to the beginning of the newly elected Council members' terms.[3]
Contents
Candidates
African Group
Asia-Pacific Group
Bangladesh[6] — Withdrew on 6 September 2014 in favour of Japan.[7]
Japan[8]
Eastern European Group
Latin American and Caribbean Group
Result
African and Asia-Pacific Groups
| African and Asia-Pacific Groups election results[11] | |
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| Member | Round 1 |
 Senegal |
187 |
| Japan |
184 |
 Egypt |
179 |
| abstentions | 1 |
| required majority | 127 |
Latin American and Caribbean Group
| Latin American and Caribbean Group election results[11] | |
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| Member | Round 1 |
 Uruguay |
185 |
| abstentions | 6 |
| required majority | 124 |
Eastern European Group
| Eastern European Group election results[11] | |
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| Member | Round 1 |
 Ukraine |
177 |
| abstentions | 14 |
| invalid votes | 1 |
| required majority | 118 |
See also
References
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- ↑ "Asian group of nations at UN changes its name to Asia-Pacific group", Radio New Zealand International, 2011-08-31.
- ↑ United Nations General Assembly Session 68 Resolution 307. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly A/RES/68/307 10 September 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
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