1991 Kazakh presidential election

none Kazakh SSR presidential 88.23% 1990 Kazakh presidential election 1990 1999 Kazakh presidential election 1999 1 December 1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev (1993, cropped).tif Nursultan Nazarbayev Yerik Asanbayev Independent politician 8,681,276 98.78% President Nursultan Nazarbayev Independent politician Nursultan Nazarbayev Independent politician Presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan for the first time on 1 December 1991.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p416 0-19-924958-X Nursultan Nazarbayev was elected with 99% of the vote, based on a turnout of 88%.Nohlen et al., p424 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.Официальный сайт Парламента Республики Казахстан http://www.parlam.kz/Information.aspx?doc=5&lan=ru-RU www.parlam.kz 2020-05-01 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.Демократия выборов в Казахстане : Авторитарная эволюция http://www.law.edu.ru/doc/document.asp?docID=1138343#_ftnref35 Куртов Аждар 2000 Юридическая Россия ru live https://web.archive.org/web/20160307154125/http://www.law.edu.ru/doc/document.asp?docID=1138343 2016-03-07 2020-05-01 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.Chronicle 1990-1991 http://www.akorda.kz/upload/hronika/hronika_swf/1990-1991/index.html www.akorda.kz 2020-05-01Vassiliev Alexei Central Asia: Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era https://books.google.com/books?id=XTwhBQAAQBAJ Saqi 1 September 2013 9780863567742 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.Маленькие нюансы отечественных выборов 09.02.11 Данияр Ашимбаев Кто есть кто в Казахстане https://kazbio.info/?S=136 kazbio.info 2020-05-01 Results Nursultan Nazarbayev Independent 8681276 Against 107252 198 9961242 Nohlen et al. References Kazakh Presidential Category:Presidential elections in Kazakhstan Category:Single-candidate elections