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1991 Kazakh presidential election

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Field	Value
country	Kazakh SSR
type	presidential
turnout	88.23%
previous_election	1990 Kazakh presidential election
previous_year	1990
next_election	1999 Kazakh presidential election
next_year	1999
election_date	1 December 1991
image1	Nursultan Nazarbayev (1993, cropped).tif
nominee1	Nursultan Nazarbayev
running_mate1	Yerik Asanbayev
party1	Independent politician
popular_vote1	8,681,276
percentage1	98.78%
title	President
before_election	Nursultan Nazarbayev
before_party	Independent politician
after_election	Nursultan Nazarbayev
after_party	Independent politician

Presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan for the first time on 1 December 1991. Nursultan Nazarbayev was elected with 99% of the vote, based on a turnout of 88%.

Background

On 24 April 1990 the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR established the post of President of the Kazakh SSR and chose its chairman Nursultan Nazarbayev to be the president for a term of 6 years.

Due to the preceding events of the collapse of the Soviet Union, on 16 October 1991 the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR set the election day for 1 December. The law established requirements for a 100,000 signatures in order to be qualified to be a presidential candidate, which coincided with the requirements of the relevant law of the Russian SFSR, although the population of the Kazakh SSR was several times smaller.

On 24 October 1991 Nazarbayev was registered by the Central Election Commission to be the incumbent candidate with his running mate Yerik Asanbayev as vice president to be on a secret ballot.

The members of the Supreme Council proposed a writer, Olzhas Suleimenov, to be the candidate but he declined the offer. Hasen Qojahmetov, leader of the Jeltoqsan National Democratic Party, did not have the required number of signatures for the election.

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p416 {{ISBN. 0-19-924958-X
Nohlen et al., p424
"Официальный сайт Парламента Республики Казахстан".
Куртов, Аждар. (2000). "Демократия выборов в Казахстане : Авторитарная эволюция".
"Chronicle 1990-1991".
(1 September 2013). "Central Asia: Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era". Saqi.
"Маленькие нюансы отечественных выборов {{!}} 09.02.11 {{!}} Данияр Ашимбаев {{!}} Кто есть кто в Казахстане".

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