Cameroon Democratic Union

The Cameroon Democratic Union (Template:Langx) is a political party in Cameroon. It was founded by Adamou Ndam Njoya, a former Minister of National Education under President Ahmadou Ahidjo, on 26 April 1991.

The CDU boycotted the March 1992 parliamentary election, along with the Social Democratic Front (SDF) due to the government's failure to meet opposition demands, which included the establishment of an independent electoral commission to oversee the election.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In the May 1997 parliamentary election, the UDC won five seats,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> all of them in Noun Department in the West Province.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It then boycotted the October 1997 presidential election, along with the Social Democratic Front (SDF) and the National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the parliamentary election held on 30 June and 15 September 2002, the UDC won five seats, all in Noun Department, out of 180 seats nationwide. Adamou Ndam Njoya and John Fru Ndi failed to agree on the designation of an all-opposition single candidate for the presidential election of 11 October 2004. As a result, Ndam Njoya represented a coalition of political parties, the Coalition for National Reconciliation and Reconstruction,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and placed third in the final ballot count, winning 4.47% (168,318 votes).

Njoya was re-elected for another five-year term as CDU Chairman at a party congress in Yaoundé, attended by about 3,000 delegates, on 30 November–2 December 2006; there was no challenger for the position.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The UDC won four out of the 163 initially declared seats in the July 2007 parliamentary election;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Mut>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it won all four of these seats in the Noun Centre constituency, where the party received 58.28% of the vote.<ref name=Mut/> The UDC did not gain any seats in the partial election, held in September, for 17 seats where the initial results were annulled.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

At the time of the 2007 election, the CDU formed an alliance with the Progressive Movement (MP) of Jean-Jacques Ekindi, agreeing not to run candidates in the Wouri Centre constituency, where the MP was competing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Electoral history

Presidential Elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1997	Boycotted
2004	Adamou Ndam Njoya	168,318	4.48%	Lost Template:N
2011		83,860	1.73%	Lost Template:N
2018		61,220	1.73%	Lost Template:N

National Assembly elections

Election	Party leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Government
1992	Adamou Ndam Njoya	Boycotted		Template:Composition bar			Template:Eliminated
1997		76,644	2.65%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 5	Template:Increase 4th	Template:No2
2002				Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:Increase 3rd	Template:No2
2007		68,427	2.19%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Decrease 4th	Template:No2
2013		71,926	1.79%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:Steady 4th	Template:No2
2020				Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:Decrease 5th	Template:No2