Presidential election · First round
Timor-Leste elections · 2022-03-19 · held
José Ramos-Horta and incumbent Francisco Guterres advanced to the presidential runoff; no candidate won a first-round majority.
Related elections
Results: final · complete coverage · Valid national candidate votes (651,859); separate presidential round
Turnout: 77.25639328395452%
| Party / candidate | Votes | Vote share | Seats | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| José Ramos-Horta | 303477 | 46.55562015711987% | — | — |
| Francisco Guterres | 144282 | 22.133927735906077% | — | — |
| Armanda Berta dos Santos | 56690 | 8.69666599678765% | — | — |
| Lere Anan Timur (Tito da Costa Cristóvão) | 49314 | 7.565132950530713% | — | — |
| Mariano Sabino Lopes | 47334 | 7.261386281389074% | — | — |
| Anacleto Bento Ferreira | 13205 | 2.0257448313208837% | — | — |
| Martinho Germano da Silva Gusmão | 8598 | 1.318996899636271% | — | — |
| Hermes da Rosa Correia Barros | 8030 | 1.2318614915188713% | — | — |
| Milena Pires (Maria Helena Lopes de Jesus Pires) | 5430 | 0.8330022290096477% | — | — |
| Isabel da Costa Ferreira | 4219 | 0.647225857125544% | — | — |
| Felisberto Araújo Duarte | 2709 | 0.4155806700528795% | — | — |
| Constâncio da Conceição Pinto | 2520 | 0.3865866698166321% | — | — |
| Rogério Lobato | 2058 | 0.3157124470169162% | — | — |
| Virgílio da Silva Guterres | 1720 | 0.2638607428907172% | — | — |
| Antero Benedito Silva | 1562 | 0.23962237232284894% | — | — |
| Ángela Freitas | 711 | 0.10907266755540693% | — | — |
The president is elected directly by an absolute majority of valid votes. If no candidate obtains more than half, the two leading candidates contest a separate runoff; each round has its own denominator.
Vote shares are calculated from 651,859 valid candidate votes. 664,106 ballots were cast; 12,247 ballots were outside the valid-vote denominator. Turnout is ballots cast divided by 859,613 registered voters.
All 16 candidates reconcile to 651,859 valid votes. The CNE live page retains a provisional heading; final status here rests on the Court of Appeal judgment of 29 March and the corresponding Tatoli report. Blank: 3,743; null: 8,386; rejected: 65; abandoned: 53. These categories plus valid votes reconcile to 664,106 participants. Party labels identify election-era candidacies or support, not automatic ideology. Ramos-Horta was the CNRT-supported candidate; Lere Anan Timur contested separately from FRETILIN’s nominee, and Ángela Freitas is recorded as an independent in this election.
Colours are editorial identifiers. No numeric ideology scores or unsupported election-era ideology links have been assigned.
Sources & further reading
CNE: 2022 first-round national tabulation, all candidates and ballot categories
Official Gazette: Court of Appeal final first-round judgment, 29 March 2022
Tatoli: Court of Appeal advances the two leading candidates, final result
Secondary transcription: full result table and historical party labels