Presidential election in Kazakhstan 1991

The presidential election in Kazakhstan took place on December 1, 1991. It was the Kazakh President's first election since Kazakhstan declared its sovereignty within the Soviet Union . The previous head of government of the Kazakh SSR , Nursultan Nazarbayev , emerged victorious from the election, in which there was only one candidate .

Result

Result:

candidate	Political party	be right	proportion of
Nursultan Nazarbayev	Communist Party of Kazakhstan	8,681,276	98.8%
Against the candidate		107.252	1.2%
Invalid		198
Total (turnout 88.2%)		8,788,726	100.00%

Web links

• Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan (English, Kazakh and Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001): Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I. , 424.