Tajikistani presidential election, 1999
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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, and planned to boycott them (but reversed their decision a few hours before voting began), described the result as illegal. Foreign observers were also critical of the elections, particularly regarding the issues of candidate registration, media access and voting irregulatities, including multiple voting.
Turnout was reported to be 98.9% of the 2,866,578 million registered voters.
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
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, and planned to boycott them (but reversed their decision a few hours before voting began), described the result as illegal. Foreign observers were also critical of the elections, particularly regarding the issues of candidate registration, media access and voting irregulatities, including multiple voting.
Turnout was reported to be 98.9% of the 2,866,578 million registered voters.
Results
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emomalii Rahmon | People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan The People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan is a political party in Tajikistan. It is the ruling party, and is led by Emomalii Rahmon, the current President of Tajikistan. At the last legislative elections, 27 February and 13 March 2005 , the party won 74% of the popular vote and 52 out of 63 seats... |
2,749,908 | 97.6 |
| Davlat Usmon Davlat Usmon -Career:Usmon was a founding member of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan in 1991, and one of its first deputy chairmen.Usmon was a field commander for the United Tajik Opposition during the Tajikistan Civil War of the 1990s. A former Economics Minister, he was the Islamic Renaissance... |
Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan is an Islamist political party in Tajikistan. It is the only legal Islamist party in Central Asia... |
59,857 | 2.1 |
| None of the above None of the above None of the Above or against all is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of all of the candidates in a voting system... |
7,051 | 0.3 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 18,774 | ||
| Total | 2,835,590 | 100 | |
| Source: Nohlen et al | |||