1993 Nigerien presidential election

1993 Nigerien presidential election

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Nominee Mahamane Ousmane Mamadou Tandja
Party CDS-Rahama MNSD
Popular vote 763,476 639,418
Percentage 54.42% 45.58%

President before election

Ali Saibou
MNSD

Elected President

Mahamane Ousmane
CDS-Rahama

Presidential elections were held in Niger on 27 February 1993, with a second round on 27 March after no candidate passed the 50% barrier in the first round. They were the first multi-candidate presidential elections held in the country since independence in 1960, following constitutional changes approved in a referendum the previous year. Although Mamadou Tandja of the ruling National Movement for the Society of Development (which had emerged as the largest party in the parliamentary elections) won the most votes in the first round, he lost in the second round to Mahamane Ousmane of the Democratic and Social Convention party.[1] Voter turnout was only 32.5% in the first round and 35.2% in the second.[2]

  1. ^ Elections in Djibouti African Elections database
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p690 ISBN 0-19-829645-2