1990 Kazakh presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Kazakh SSR on 24 April 1990 to elect the president for a six-year term. Chairman of the Supreme Council Nursultan Nazarbayev was chosen to be the president by 317 of the 360 members. The election was uncontested.

1990 Kazakh presidential election
24 April 1990
335 from 360 Members of the Supreme Council
180 votes needed to win
Turnout93.05%
 
Nominee Nursultan Nazarbayev
Party QKP
MP votes 317
Percentage 94.62%
  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  Against
  Did not vote
Elected President

Nursultan Nazarbayev
Independent

Kazakhstan
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Background

On 24 April 1990, the Supreme Council adopted the law "On the establishment of the post of President of the Kazakh SSR and amendments and additions to the Constitution of the Kazakh SSR."[1] The discussion of the establishment of the post took place. Some members of the council believed that the institution of the presidency would alienate the republic from the union center, create a legal framework for the complete independence of Kazakhstan, and could become the basis for authoritarianism. Others, on the contrary, unanimously supported the need to introduce the post of President in the republic, putting forward a variety of political and legal arguments.[2]

317 members of the Surpeme Council elected its chairman Nursultan Nazarbayev to be the President while 18 were voted against.[3] Nazarbayev from 1984 served as the Prime Minister of the Kazakh SSR.[4] On 22 June 1989, he became the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and then from 22 February 1990, he was chosen to the chairman of the Supreme Council.

Results
CandidatePartyVotes%
Nursultan NazarbayevCommunist Party of Kazakhstan31794.63
Against185.37
Total335100.00
Registered voters/turnout360–
Source: e-history.kz[5]

References
  1. "1990-1991 годы". www.akorda.kz. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  2. "ИНСТИТУТ ПРЕЗИДЕНТСТВА". e-history.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  3. https://e-history.kz/ru/news/show/3758/
  4. Sally N. Cummings (2002). Power and change in Central Asia. Psychology Press. pp. 59–61. ISBN 978-0-415-25585-1. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  5. "ИНСТИТУТ ПРЕЗИДЕНТСТВА". e-history.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-08-08.
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