1989 Nigerien general election

none Niger presidential 1970 Nigerien presidential election 1970 1993 Nigerien presidential election 1993 10 December 1989 Ali Saibou.jpg Ali Saibou National Movement for the Society of Development 3,316,182 99.60% President Ali Saibou National Movement for the Society of Development Ali Saibou National Movement for the Society of Development 95.06% ( 3.29pp) General elections were held in Niger on 10 December 1989 to elect a President and National Assembly. They were the first elections since 1970, and followed the approval of a new constitution in a referendum in September, which had made the country a one-party state with the National Movement for the Society of Development as the sole legal party. As a result, its leader, the incumbent president Ali Saibou, was elected unopposed, and the party won all 93 seats in the Assembly.Elections in Niger https://web.archive.org/web/20120309131323/http://africanelections.tripod.com/ne.html 2012-03-09 African Elections Database Voter turnout was 95%.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p685 0-19-829645-2 Results For the first time, women won seats in the National Assembly, with Roukayatou Abdou Issaka, Bibata Adamou Dakaou, Souna Hadizatou Diallo, Aïssata Karidjo Mounkaïla and Marie Lebihan becoming the country's first female members of parliament.Alice J. Kang (2015) Bargaining for Women's Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy, p117 y File:Niger Assemblée nationale 1989.svg Presidential candidate Ali Saibou National Movement for the Society of Development 3316182 93 Against 13472 5259 3508204 Nohlen et al. References Niger General Category:Parliamentary elections in Niger Category:One-party elections Category:Single-candidate elections Category:Presidential elections in Niger Niger