2005 Palestinian Presidential Election
After Arafat9 January 2005 · Presidents of the Authority
The 2005 Palestinian Presidential elections were held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip of the Palestinian National Authority on Sunday, 9 January 2005 to elect the President of the Palestinian National Authority, to succeed Yasser Arafat, who had died on 11 November 2004.
Held two months after Yasser Arafat's death, with Hamas and Islamic Jihad boycotting. Abbas won a four-year term that has never been renewed at the ballot box: no presidential election has been held since.
President before
Rawhi Fattouh
Fatah
Elected President
Mahmoud Abbas
Fatah
Winning share
67.4%
Turnout
73.4%
The result
| Mahmoud Abbas | Fatah | 501,448 | 67.38% |
| Mustafa Barghouti | Palestinian National Initiative | 156,227 | 20.99% |
| Taysir Khalid | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine | 26,848 | 3.61% |
| Abelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar | Independent | 22,171 | 2.98% |
| Bassam as-Salhi | Palestinian People's Party | 21,429 | 2.88% |
| Sayyid Barakah | Independent | 10,406 | 1.40% |
| Abdel Karim Shubeir | Independent | 5,717 | 0.77% |