The National Rally of Independents (RNI) won 97 of the 395-seat parliament while the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) took 82 seats and the Istiqlal Party secured 78 seats.

The co-ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) suffered a crushing defeat, seeing its support collapse from 125 seats to only 12, according to preliminary results.

Morocco has a bicameral legislature, whose two chambers are the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives has 395 seats, which are elected by proportional representation and consist of two tiers: 305 seats are elected from 92 multi-member constituencies (with the electoral threshold set at 6%) and the remaining 90 are elected from a single nationwide constituency (with the electoral threshold set at 3%).

Nationwide seats are reserved; 60 are set aside for women and 30 are set aside for people under the age of 40, of which 15 must be women.

All citizens who are at least 18 years old, or will reach the age of 18 by March 2021, were eligible to vote.

The period for submitting voter registration requests ended on 31 December 2020. (ILKHA)