1990 Ivorian presidential election
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Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast on 28 October 1990. They were the first since the reintroduction of multi-party democracy a few months earlier. For the first time, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president since independence in 1960, faced an opponent in longtime dissident Laurent Gbagbo, who had just returned from exile two years earlier. Nonetheless, Houphouët-Boigny was elected to a seventh five-year term, winning 81.68% of the vote. Voter turnout was 69.2%.[1]
Houphouët-Boigny died on 7 December 1993, three years into his term. Per the Constitution, National Assembly president Henri Konan Bédié served as acting president for the balance of Houphouët-Boigny's term. Bédié was elected president in his own right in 1995.
Results
[edit]Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Félix Houphouët-Boigny | Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally | 2,445,365 | 81.68 | |
Laurent Gbagbo | Ivorian Popular Front | 548,441 | 18.32 | |
Total | 2,993,806 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 2,993,806 | 98.19 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 55,327 | 1.81 | ||
Total votes | 3,049,133 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 4,408,808 | 69.16 | ||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
References
[edit]- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p311 ISBN 0-19-829645-2