1991 Zambian general election

1991 Zambian general election

← 1988 31 October 1991 1996 →
Turnout45.27%
 
Nominee Frederick Chiluba Kenneth Kaunda
Party MMD UNIP
Popular vote 972,605 311,022
Percentage 75.77% 24.23%


President before election

Kenneth Kaunda
UNIP

Elected President

Frederick Chiluba
MMD

General elections were held in Zambia on 31 October 1991 to elect a President and National Assembly. They were the first multi-party elections since 1968, and only the second multi-party elections since independence in 1964. The United National Independence Party (UNIP), which had led the country since independence (from 1973 to 1990 as the sole legal party), was comprehensively beaten by the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). Kenneth Kaunda, who had been president since independence, was defeated in a landslide by MMD challenger Frederick Chiluba in the presidential elections, whilst the MMD won 125 of the 150 elected seats in the expanded National Assembly. Voter turnout was 45%.[1]