Turkmenistani presidential election, 1990

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Presidential elections were held for the first time in the Turkmen SSR on 27 October 1990.^[1] The only candidate was Saparmurat Niyazov, who won 98.3% of the vote. Voter turnout was 96.7%.^[2]

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Saparmurat Niyazov	Communist Party of Turkmenistan	1,716,278	98.3
Against		29,790	1.7
Invalid/blank votes		307	–
Total		1,746,375	100
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p477 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
↑ Nohlen et al., p479

Elections and referendums in Turkmenistan

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People's Council elections	1992 2003 2007

Referendums	1991 (Mar) 1991 (Oct) 1994

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