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1990 Latvian Supreme Soviet election

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Field	Value
country	Latvian SSR
flag_year	1990
previous_election	[1985](1985-latvian-supreme-soviet-election)
next_election	[1993](1993-latvian-parliamentary-election)
seats_for_election	All 201 seats in the Supreme Soviet
majority_seats	101
election_date	18 March 1990
leader1	Dainis Īvāns
party1	LTF
last_election1	New
seats1	131
percentage1	68.20
leader2	Jānis Vagris
party2	LKP
last_election2	201
seats2	55
percentage2	21.50
leader3	–
party3	Independents
last_election3	new
seats3	15
percentage3	10.30
title	Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
posttitle	Chairman of the Supreme Council after
before_election	Anatolijs Gorbunovs
before_party	LKP
after_election	Anatolijs Gorbunovs
after_party	Independent politician

Parliamentary elections were held in the Latvian SSR on 18 March 1990. It was the first free parliamentary election in Latvia since 1931 and saw 201 deputies elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR, 170 of them in the first round. Run-off elections were held on 25 March 1 and 29 April. The Popular Front of Latvia won over two-thirds of the vote. Unlike its Estonian and Lithuanian counterparts, the Latvian Communist Party did not separate from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, on 3 May 1990, the new Supreme Soviet re-elected the Communist Party member Anatolijs Gorbunovs as its chairman, effectively the leader of Latvia. He subsequently resigned from the party, and a year later the Communist Party was banned by the parliament.

The elected parliament was responsible for some of the most important decisions in modern Latvian history, such as the declaration of renewed independence from the Soviet Union.

It was the first and only free election to the Supreme Soviet of Latvian SSR. The next parliament was elected as Saeima in 1993.

Voting was held on the same day as municipal elections and elections in the Estonian SSR.

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1122 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
(17 November 2008). "Latvia – History". The World Guide.

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