1991 Transnistrian presidential election

1 December 1991

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Nominee	Igor Smirnov	Grigore Mărăcuță
Party	Independent	Republic
Running mate	Alexandru Caraman	Boris Akulov
Percentage	65.4%	33.4%

Elected President

Igor Smirnov
Independent

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Presidential elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 1 December, 1991. These were the first such elections in the newly founded Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and were won by Igor Smirnov, one of the country's founders. Smirnov faced two opponents: Grigore Mărăcuţă and Grigoriy Blagodarniy.^[1] Mărăcuţă would become an ally of Smirnov and was speaker of the Supreme Council until 2005. According to an article by the ethnic Russian researcher from Moldova Alla Skvortsova from 2002, "polls and elections in the PMR may to some extent have been rigged".^[2]

Results


Candidate		Running mate	Party	%
	Igor Smirnov	Alexandru Caraman	Independent	65.4
	Grigore Mărăcuţă	Boris Akulov	Republic	33.4
	Grigoriy Blagodarniy	Lyudmila Alfereva	Democratic Party	1.2
Total

Source: Daily Report: Soviet Union^[3]

References

^ (in Russian) Olvia Press: Presidential elections in Transnistria Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society?", in Pal Kolsto (ed.), National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), p. 176.
^ Daily Report: Soviet Union, issues 2130–235

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