The electoral system and election management seem to be a major impediment to democracy in most democratised African societies. The situation seems endemic and calls for concern, especially when the political party in power still exercises some rights over the body mandated by this. In Cameroon, and in the context of modern democracy as witnessed in the 1990s, there had been a series of transitions in the management of elections. In this regard, we noticed this evolution from the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization (MINATD), the National Elections Observatory (ONEL), and Elections Cameroon (ELECAM). The main objective of this paper is to assess the changes that took place between ONEL and ELECAM from 1990 to 2018. This work was fascinated by the consortium of data collected from both primary and secondary sources embodied in the historical analytical approach. Resulting from our findings, it’s quite evident that the two managing election bodies differed in the field of operationalization. The first appears to be a blindfold, whereas the later appears to be more operational, both in theory and in the practical sense of its raison d’être, but still with numerous challenges.
Keywords: Elections, Political Party, Democracy, ONEL, ELECAM
