Tajikistani presidential election, 1999

Presidential elections were held in Tajikistan on 6 November 1999. They were won by the incumbent, Emomalii Rahmon, who took 97.6% of the vote. The opposition, who had demanded the elections be postponed,^[1] and planned to boycott them (but reversed their decision a few hours before voting began), described the result as illegal.^[2] Foreign observers were also critical of the elections, particularly regarding the issues of candidate registration, media access and voting irregulatities, including multiple voting.^[3]

Turnout was reported to be 98.9% of the 2,866,578 million registered voters.^[4]

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Emomalii Rahmon	People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan	2,749,908	97.6
Davlat Usmon	Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan	59,857	2.1
None of the above		7,051	0.3
Invalid/blank votes		18,774	–
Total		2,835,590	100
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

1. Tajik elections under threat BBC News, 15 October 1999
2. Tajik opposition denounces presidential election BBC News, 7 November 1999
3. Tajik president wins second term BBC News, 5 November 1999
4. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p467 ISBN 0-19-924958-X