1990 Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet election
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
30 September 1990

All 360 seats in the Supreme Soviet
180 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader Seats
Communist Party Ayaz Mutallibov 280
APFP Abulfaz Elchibey 45
Independents 15
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet before Chairman of the Supreme Soviet after
Elmira Gafarova
CPSU
Elmira Gafarova
CPSU

Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Azerbaijan SSR on 30 September and 14 October 1990. They were the first multi-party elections in the country.

According to historian Audrey Altstadt,[1]

The 1990 elections were characterized by intimidation, including the jailing of several Popular Front candidates, the murder of two others, and unabashed stuffing of ballot boxes in at least some districts in Baku, as witnessed by observers from the US Embassy-Moscow and the US Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)

Results

PartySeats
Azerbaijan Communist Party280
Azerbaijan Popular Front45
Independents15
Vacant20
Total360

References

  1. Altstadt, Audrey L. (1997), Parrott, Bruce; Dawisha, Karen (eds.), "Azerbaijan's struggle toward democracy", Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Democratization and Authoritarianism in Post-Communist Societies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 110–155, ISBN 978-0-521-59731-9


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