Uzbekistani presidential election, 1991

December 29, 1991 (1991-12-29)



Nominee	Islam Karimov	Muhammad Salih
Party	PDPU	Erk
Popular vote	8,514,136	1,220,474
Percentage	87.1 %	12.5 %

President before election

Islam Karimov
CPSU

Elected President

Islam Karimov
PDPU

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Presidential elections were held for the first time in Uzbekistan on 29 December 1991.^[1] Their result was a victory for Islam Karimov of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, who won with 87.1% of the vote. Voter turnout was reported to be 94.2%.^[2]

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Islam Karimov	People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan	8,514,136	87.1
Muhammad Salih	Erk	1,220,474	12.5
Against all		36,525	0.4
Invalid/blank votes		129,823	–
Total		9,900,958	100
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p490 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
↑ Nohlen et al., p496

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