1991 Transnistrian presidential election

none 1991 Transnistrian presidential election Transnistria presidential no 1996 Transnistrian presidential election 1996 1 December 1991 125x125px 150x150px Igor Smirnov Independent politician Alexandru Caraman 65.4% Григорий Маракуца|125x125px 150x150px Grigore Mărăcuță Republic (Transnistria) Boris Akulov 33.4% President Igor Smirnov Independent politician Presidential elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 1 December, 1991. These were the first such elections in the newly founded Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, won by Igor Smirnov, one of the country's founders. Smirnov faced two opponents: Grigore Mărăcuţă and Grigoriy Blagodarniy.ru Olvia Press: Presidential elections in Transnistria https://web.archive.org/web/20110713002627/http://www.olvia.idknet.com/ol41-12-06.htm 2011-07-13 Mărăcuţă would become an ally of Smirnov and was speaker of the Supreme Council until 2005. According to an article by the ethnic Russian researcher from Moldova Alla Skvortsova from 2002, "polls and elections in the PMR may to some extent have been rigged".Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society?", in Pal Kolsto (ed.), National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), p. 176. Results Igor Smirnov Alexandru Caraman Independent 65.4 Grigore Mărăcuţă Boris Akulov Republic 33.4 Grigoriy Blagodarniy Lyudmila Alfereva Democratic Party 1.2 Daily Report: Soviet UnionDaily Report: Soviet Union, issues 2130–235 References Category:1991 elections in Moldova Category:Elections in Transnistria Category:1991 in Transnistria Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results