2003 Azerbaijani presidential election

none Azerbaijan 1991 presidential 1998 Azerbaijani presidential election 1998 2008 Azerbaijani presidential election 2008 15 October 2003 Romano Prodi and Ilham Aliyev (2004-05-18) 02(cropped).jpg Ilham Aliyev New Azerbaijan Party 1,860,346 76.84% Isa Gambar (cropped).jpg Isa Gambar Musavat 338,145 13.97% President Heydar Aliyev New Azerbaijan Party Ilham Aliyev New Azerbaijan Party Presidential elections were held in Azerbaijan on 15 October 2003. As expected, Ilham Aliyev, son of the outgoing president, Heydar Aliyev, was officially elected with an overwhelming majority in a vote international observers deemed not to be free or fair. The election was characterized by ballot stuffing and manipulated voter lists. The final vote tabulation was kept from OSCE/ODIHR monitors, which meant that they could not judge the accuracy of the results.Altstadt Audrey L. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/alts70456 Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan 2017 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-70456-4 77 10.7312/alts70456 Police arrested members of electoral commissions who refused to sign paperwork on vote counts from their precincts. The opposition claimed that Isa Gambar had won the election. The opposition protested against the election results, with the Aliyev regime arresting hundreds, including Gambar.Hale Henry E. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/patronal-politics/4C1B4D49A7F17739E75A5AB7B66E2115 Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective 2014 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07351-7 294 10.1017/cbo9781139683524 Conduct Human Rights Watch stated that the "election campaign... from the beginning was heavily manipulated by the government to favor Prime Minister Ilham Aliyev, son of President Heydar Aliyev. The government ensured that election commissions would be stacked to favor Aliyev, and banned nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from monitoring the vote. As the election drew nearer, government officials openly sided with Ilham Aliyev, obstructed opposition rallies, and sought to limit participation in them. Police have beaten and arbitrarily detained hundreds of opposition activists, including a 73-year-old woman." The Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe provided 188 election observers. The mission, requested by the United States government, formed part of a larger group of observers monitoring under the auspices of the OSCE. The IDEE observers observed more than 1,000 voting precincts and Constituency Election Centers where votes were tabulated, and collectively issued a "Votum Separatum," which expressed their outrage at election fraud, intimidation and political repression they witnessed during their observation mission and their disagreement with the OSCE's mild preliminary report calling the elections "generally well administered." Results Ilham Aliyev New Azerbaijan Party 1860346 Isa Gambar Musavat 338145 Lala Shevket National Unity 87523 Etibar Mammadov Azerbaijan National Independence Party 70638 Ilyas Ismayilov Justice Party 24098 Sabir Rustamkhanli Civic Solidarity Party 19973 Gudrat Gasanguliev Azerbaijani Popular Front Party 12071 Hafiz Hajiyev Modern Musavat Party 8267 Constitutional Court References Azerbaijan: Presidential Elections 2003 – Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper Human Rights Watch 2003-10-13 https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/eca/azerbaijan/azerbaijan-elections2003.pdf 2020-10-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20200923230636/https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/eca/azerbaijan/azerbaijan-elections2003.pdf 2020-09-23 live The Azerbaijan 'Elections' – October 15, 2003 Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe 2020-10-21 https://idee.org/azerbaijanelections.html 2020-10-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20200904104142/https://idee.org/azerbaijanelections.html 2020-09-04 live External links OSCE report Category:Presidential elections in Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Presidential Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results