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{{Short description|Political party in Cameroon}}
{{Update|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox political party
| name             = Cameroon Democratic Union
| native_name      = Union démocratique du Cameroun
| logo             = 
| colorcode        = {{party color|Cameroon Democratic Union}}
| leader           = 
| chairperson      = 
| president        = [[Patricia Tomaïno Ndam Njoya]]
| secretary_general = 
| spokesperson     = 
| founder          = [[Adamou Ndam Njoya]]
| slogan           = 
| founded          = {{Start date and age|1991|04|26|df=y}}<!--Constitutive Assembly on February 3, 1991-->
| dissolved        = 
| merger           = 
| split            = 
| predecessor      = 
| merged           = 
| successor        = 
| headquarters     = [[Yaoundé]], [[Cameroon]]
| newspaper        = 
| student_wing     = 
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| position         = 
| ideology         = [[Anti-corruption]]<br/>[[Decentralization]]
| international    = 
| colors           = {{Color box|{{party color|Cameroon Democratic Union}}}} [[Blue]]
| seats1_title     = [[Senate (Cameroon)|Senate]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|0|100|{{party color|Cameroon Democratic Union}}}}
| seats2_title     = [[National Assembly of Cameroon|National Assembly]]
| seats2           = {{Composition bar|4|180|{{party color|Cameroon Democratic Union}}}}
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| country          = Cameroon
| footnotes        = 
}}

The '''Cameroon Democratic Union''' ({{langx|fr|Union Démocratique du Cameroun}}) 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 [[Cameroonian parliamentary election, 1992|March 1992 parliamentary election]], along with the [[Social Democratic Front (Cameroon)|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>{{cite book|title=The Leadership Challenge in Africa: Cameroon Under Paul Biya |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Bbr8Bno98sC&pg=PA440 |chapter=Biya and the Transition to Democracy |author=Victor Julius Ngoh |publisher=Africa World Press |year=2004 |editor1=John Mukum Mbaku |editor2=Joseph Takougang |page=440|isbn = 9781592211791}}</ref> In the [[Cameroonian parliamentary election, 1997|May 1997 parliamentary election]], the UDC won five seats,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2053_97.htm |work=Inter-Parliamentary Union |title=Cameroon National Assembly election, 1997}}</ref> all of them in Noun Department in the [[West Province (Cameroon)|West Province]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spm.gov.cm/elections/legislatives97/leg97_dep_sortants_f.htm |title=1997 election results |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214034939/http://www.spm.gov.cm/elections/legislatives97/leg97_dep_sortants_f.htm |archive-date=14 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It then boycotted the [[Cameroonian presidential election, 1997|October 1997 presidential election]], along with the [[Social Democratic Front (Cameroon)|Social Democratic Front]] (SDF) and the [[National Union for Democracy and Progress (Cameroon)|National Union for Democracy and Progress]] (UNDP).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Newsletters/irinw_101197.html |title=Cameroon: IRIN-WA Special Briefing on Presidential Elections, 10/11/97 |date=11 October 1997 |publisher=Integrated Regional Information Network for West Africa via University of Pennsylvania – African Studies Center}}</ref>

In the [[Cameroonian parliamentary election, 2002|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 [[Cameroonian presidential election, 2004|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>{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=RSDCOI&page=research&id=42df60c71c |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826150059/http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=RSDCOI&page=research&id=42df60c71c |title=Cameroon: The Cameroon Democratic Union (Union démocratique du Cameroun, UDC), including its structure, organization, membership card and the treatment of its members by government authorities |date=May 2005 |agency=UNHCR |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-08-26 |access-date=2006-10-28 }}</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>{{cite news|author=Aimé-Francis Amougou |url=http://www.cameroon-info.net/cmi_show_news.php?id=18402 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724060701/http://www.cameroon-info.net/cmi_show_news.php?id=18402 |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 July 2012 |title=UDC : Ndam Njoya, sans suspense ! |newspaper=Cameroon Tribune |date=4 December 2006 |language=French}}</ref>

The UDC won four out of the 163 initially declared seats in the [[Cameroonian parliamentary election, 2007|July 2007 parliamentary election]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spm.gov.cm/detail_art.php?id_art=1384&type=artune&lang=fr |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071024221604/http://www.spm.gov.cm/detail_art.php?id_art=1384&type=artune&lang=fr |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 October 2007 |title=Les résultats des législatives du 22 juillet 2007 proclamés |publisher=Cameroon government portal |language=French |date=24 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/fluxafp/fil_info.asp?reg_id=0&art_cle=38605 |title=Cameroun: l'écrasante victoire du parti de Biya aux législatives confirmée |publisher=AFP via Jeuneafrique.com |date=6 August 2007 |language=French |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920131342/https://www.jeuneafrique.com/fluxafp/fil_info.asp?reg_id=0&art_cle=38605 |archive-date=20 September 2008}}</ref><ref name=Mut>{{cite web|url=http://www.cameroon-info.net/cmi_show_news.php?id=20129 |title=Legislatives 2007: Les résultats de la Cour supreme |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728184509/http://www.cameroon-info.net/cmi_show_news.php?id=20129 |archive-date=28 July 2012 |date=13 August 2007 |url-status=dead |publisher=Mutations |language=French}}</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>{{cite news|url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/pays/cameroun/article_depeche.asp?art_cle=XIN70027lesrsemrpus0 |title=Les résulats des législatives partielles proclamés par la Cour supreme |language=French |publisher=Xinhua via Jeuneafrique.com |date=15 October 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920131350/http://www.jeuneafrique.com/pays/cameroun/article_depeche.asp?art_cle=XIN70027lesrsemrpus0 |archive-date=20 September 2008}}</ref>

At the time of the 2007 election, the CDU formed an alliance with the [[Progressive Movement (Cameroon)|Progressive Movement]] (MP) of [[Jean-Jacques Ekindi]], agreeing not to run candidates in the Wouri Centre constituency, where the MP was competing.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.postnewsline.com/2007/06/ndam-njoya-ekin.html |title=Ndam Njoya, Ekindi Agree On Mutual Support At Elections |website=postnewsline.com |date=23 June 2007}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==

=== Presidential Elections ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!'''Election'''
!Party candidate
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
!Result
|-
![[1997 Cameroonian presidential election|1997]]
| colspan="4" |Boycotted 
|-
![[2004 Cameroonian presidential election|2004]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Adamou Ndam Njoya]]
|168,318
|4.48%
|'''Lost''' {{N}}
|-
![[2011 Cameroonian presidential election|2011]]
|83,860
|1.73%
|'''Lost''' {{N}}
|-
![[2018 Cameroonian presidential election|2018]]
|61,220
|1.73%
|'''Lost''' {{N}}
|}

=== National Assembly elections ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!'''Election'''
!Party leader
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
!'''Seats'''
!+/–
!'''Position'''
!'''Government'''
|-
![[1992 Cameroonian parliamentary election|1992]]
| rowspan="6" |[[Adamou Ndam Njoya]]
| colspan="2" |Boycotted
|{{Composition bar|0|180|#2B3781}}
|
|
|{{eliminated|Extra-parliamentary}}
|-
![[1997 Cameroonian parliamentary election|1997]]
|76,644
|2.65%
|{{Composition bar|5|180|#2B3781}}
|{{increase}} 5
|{{increase}} 4th
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|-
![[2002 Cameroonian parliamentary election|2002]]
|
|
|{{Composition bar|5|180|#2B3781}}
|{{steady}}
|{{increase}} 3rd
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|-
![[2007 Cameroonian parliamentary election|2007]]
|68,427
|2.19%
|{{Composition bar|4|180|#2B3781}}
|{{decrease}} 1
|{{decrease}} 4th
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|-
![[2013 Cameroonian parliamentary election|2013]]
|71,926
|1.79%
|{{Composition bar|4|180|#2B3781}}
|{{steady}}
|{{steady}} 4th
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|-
![[2020 Cameroonian parliamentary election|2020]]
|
|
|{{Composition bar|4|180|#2B3781}}
|{{steady}}
|{{decrease}} 5th
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Cameroonian political parties}}
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[[Category:Political parties in Cameroon]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1991]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in Cameroon]]