Parliamentary elections were held in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

 on 23 March 1990, alongside simultaneous presidential elections

Zimbabwean presidential election, 1990

A presidential election was held in Zimbabwe on 23 March 1990 alongside simultaneous parliamentary elections. It was the first time that the president had been popularly elected, following the creation of an executive presidency in 1987. The election was contested by the incumbent Robert Mugabe,...

. They were the first elections to be contested under the amended constitution of 1987, which established an executive presidency

Executive president

An executive president is a president who exercises active executive power in a certain systems of government. Executive presidents are active in day-to-day governance of a nation, and are usually popularly elected....

 and abolished the Senate

Senate of Zimbabwe

The Senate of Zimbabwe is the upper chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It existed from 1980 to 1989, and was re-introduced in November 2005....

. They were also the first ever elections in the country to be contested on a single roll, i.e. with no separate voting for whites and blacks.

Results

The elections resulted in a huge victory for Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...

's ZANU-PF

Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front

The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front has been the ruling party in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and retaining the name ZANU-PF...

, as they took 117 of the 120 elected seats (30 more were appointed by the President). Given that the Zimbabwean political scene was classified as Restricted Democratic Practice at the time, it is unlikely that the elections were free and fair; Zimbabwe Unity Movement

Zimbabwe Unity Movement

The Zimbabwe Unity Movement, was a short lived political movement in Zimbabwe. It served as a successor and link to the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe...

 supporters were the targets of violent attacks from supporters of ZANU-PF and five candidates were murdered. When ZUM student representative, Israel Mutanhaurwa, was abducted in broad daylight by suspected state agents at the local cinemas in Gweru

Gweru

Gweru is a city near the centre of Zimbabwe at . It has a population of about 146,073 , making it the third largest city in the nation. Gweru is the capital of Midlands Province. Gweru was founded in 1894 by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. The first bank opened in Gweru in 1896, and the stock exchange...

 and later dumped unharmed on the outskirts of Mkoba a local surbub, no-one was arrested or convicted of the crime. Those convicted of the attempted murder of former Gweru Mayor Patrick Kombayi

Patrick Kombayi

Patrick Kombayi was a Zimbabwean businessman, a former mayor of Gweru and an active member of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai faction in the Midlands Province...

, who was shot in lower abdomen but survived the shooting, were pardoned immediately afterwards.

Party	Votes	%	Seats
ZANU-PF Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front has been the ruling party in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and retaining the name ZANU-PF...	1,690,071	80.54	117
Zimbabwe Unity Movement Zimbabwe Unity Movement The Zimbabwe Unity Movement, was a short lived political movement in Zimbabwe. It served as a successor and link to the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe...	369,031	17.59	2
ZANU-Ndonga Zimbabwe African National Union - Ndonga Zimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga is a small political party in Zimbabwe.The Zimbabwe African National Union was a political party during the struggle for Rhodesia's independence, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union...	19,448	0.93	1
UANC United African National Council The United African National Council is a political party in Zimbabwe.In 1979, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the UANC Party held formal power in Zimbabwe during the short-lived period of the Internal Settlement...	11,191	0.53	0
National Democratic Union	498	0.02	0
Independents Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	7,954	0.38	0
Total	2,098,193	100%	120
Source: African Elections Database