1990 Chadian parliamentary election

none Chad 8 July 1990 1969 1997 All 123 seats in the National Assembly 56.06% yes yes Independents 100 123 Parliamentary elections were held in Chad on 8 July 1990. They were the first elections since 1969 and followed a referendum the previous year which had made the country a one-party state, with the National Union for Independence and Revolution as the sole legal party. However, all 436 candidates stood for election as independents.CHAD: parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 1990 https://data.ipu.org/election-summary/HTML/2061_90.htm Inter-Parliamentary Union 25 April 2026 Voter turnout was 56%.Chad: Authoritarian regimes, elections and coups (1962-1996) http://www.eisa.org.za/WEP/chaoneparty.htm Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa https://web.archive.org/web/20100902225435/http://www.eisa.org.za/WEP/chaoneparty.htm 2 September 2010 en dead Background Chad had endured a mostly unstable government since its independence in 1960 into the 1980s, including prolonged periods of civil war. In 1982, Hissène Habré gained control of the government and instituted a somewhat stable but authoritarian dictatorship, backed by the United States and France. Beginning in 1988, Habré began to allow slivers of democracy into the government, with regional congresses and a constitutional committee being held.Brody Reed Enabling a Dictator: The United States and Chad’s Hissène Habré 1982-1990 https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/06/28/enabling-dictator/united-states-and-chads-hissene-habre-1982-1990 Human Rights Watch 26 April 2026 en 28 June 2016May R. Massey S. The Chadian Party System: Rhetoric and Reality Democratization September 2002 9 3 72–91 10.1080/714000269 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/714000269 26 April 202674-76 A 1989 referendum created the National Assembly, though it gave the Assembly no meaningful authority. The 1990 elections were held to fill the new Assembly. All candidates officially ran as independents, though the constitution created a single-party state under Habré's National Union for Independence and Revolution party.Polity5 Regime Narratives: Chad 2018 Center for Systemic Peace https://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/P5Chad2018.pdf Results Independents 123 1622838 2894825 African Elections Database Aftermath The new Assembly would prove to be short-lived. In December 1990, six months after the election, the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) under Idriss Déby would successfully overthrow Habré's government. The MPS suspended the constitution and Assembly upon gaining power, promising an eventual multiparty democracy. After a slow democratization process, a meaningful multi-party National Assembly was finally elected in 1997.75-79Nohlen Dieter Krennerich Michael Thibaut Bernhard Elections in Africa: a data handbook 1999 Oxford University Press 0-19-829645-2 223–227223-224 References Parliamentary election Category:Parliamentary elections in Chad Category:Non-partisan elections Chad Chad Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results