1996 South Ossetian presidential election

1996 South Ossetian presidential election
10 November 1996 2001 →
 
Nominee Lyudvig Chibirov Gerasim Khugayev
Percentage 52.3% 23.9%
President before election

Position established

 Elected President

Lyudvig Chibirov

Politics of South Ossetia
Constitution
Executive
Legislature
Parliament of South Ossetia
Chairman
Alan Tadtaev
Political parties
Elections
Administrative divisions
  • First level: Four Raions
  • Second level: Towns / cities
Foreign relations
Diplomatic missions of / in South Ossetia

Presidential elections were held in South Ossetia on 10 November 1996.[1] The result was a victory for the incumbent head of state Lyudvig Chibirov, who received 52% of the vote.[2]

  1. ^ "Elections in Abkhazia and South Ossetia". Keesing's Record of World Events. 42: 41382. November 1996.
  2. ^ Ian Jeffries (2003) The Caucasus and Central Asian Republics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition, Routledge