President Yahya Jammeh scored just a large portion of his past film industry count in a week ago's race, giving triumph to restriction coalition pioneer Adama Barrow.
Be that as it may, why did Gambians betray Jammeh following 22 years in power?
Financial emergency
A triple blow has been managed to the Gambian economy in the most recent three years, making life near excruciating for some and sending thousands over the Mediterranean to look for a superior life in Europe.
A 2013 dry spell was trailed by the area's Ebola emergency, which regardless of never really touching The Gambia itself frightened away sightseers who represent 20 percent of the nation's GDP.
This year the Gambian powers slapped an enormous increment on traditions expenses for trucks entering its region from Senegal, bringing about a barricade and cutting the nation off from imperative supplies for a considerable length of time.
Suppression and weariness
The word heard frequently in the city regarding Jammeh was "drained".
Gambians were burnt out on their nation's plummet into confinement because of their pioneer's capricious conduct, including the revelation of an Islamic republic in a nation with a background marked by religious resistance, and its withdrawal from the Commonwealth and International Criminal Court.
The observation that Jammeh basically assumed control organizations and properties for his own pick up additionally irritated numerous.
At last, police badgering and exemption by the security administrations, particularly the National Intelligence Agency that reported specifically to Jammeh, bolstered developing disdain.
Part vote
The restriction coalition pulled in 45.54 of the vote, while Jammeh took 36.66 percent.
However, outsider competitor Mama Kandeh, a previous decision party MP remaining for the Gambian Democratic Congress (GDC), pulled in a noteworthy extent of votes (17.80 percent), to a great extent from average Jammeh supporters.
Kandeh's representative Essa Jallow told AFP: "Mr Kandeh pulled a great deal of votes from the decision party since he was a piece of them and has a decent inside information of the gathering."
Serving as a national get together part for the decision Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) for a long time, Kandeh was a notable face that APRC individuals disappointed by Jammeh could trust.
Coalition
The coalition joined a formerly frail and isolated restriction that united after the imprisoning of a few critical figures in the United Democratic Party (UDP) in July.
One of eight coalition party pioneers, Isatou Touray suspended her own particular offer for the administration in the conviction an assembled front was the best way to win.
"Seeing the coalition meeting up, every one of the challenges that they are having, it raises trust, tending to that sentiment fear the state has imparted in individuals," she told AFP.
A few interviewees told AFP they didn't really bolster Barrow however needed Jammeh out no matter what, seeing the coalition as the most ideal approach to accomplish it.
Ethnic faultlines
In July, Jammeh committed a genuine error by saying he would "wipe out" the Mandinka individuals, The Gambia's biggest ethnic gathering, including he would put them "where even a fly can't see them".
Jammeh is from the minority Jola individuals.
The remark was denounced as "open slander (and) dehumanization" by the United Nations Special Adviser on genocide, Adama Dieng, who said it was an affectation to viciousness.
What's more, outsider competitor Kandeh surveyed well among the Fula ethnic gathering, to which he has a place.
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