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Encyclopedia > Algerian local elections, 1990
Politics of Algeria

Politics of Algeria
Political parties in Algeria
Elections in Algeria A decade of terrorist violence in Algeria has resulted in more than 100,000 deaths since 1991. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ... Politics of Algeria Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Algeria ...

The Algerian local elections of 1990 were the first multiparty elections to take place in independent Algeria.


APC (Popular Communal Assembly) Results

Party Votes Share of Vote Councils Seats
FIS 4,331,472 54.3% 853 5,987
FLN 2,245,798 28.1% 487 4,799
RCD 166,104 2.1% 87 623
PNSD 131,100 1.6% 2 134
Other parties 179,036 2.2% 4 143
Independents 931,278 11.7% 106 1,189
Total 7,984,788 100%

Turnout: 8,366,760 (65.2%) Valid votes cast: 7,984,788 (62.2%) The Islamic Salvation Front (تحرير الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ) (French: Front Islamique du Salut) is an outlawed Islamist political party in Algeria. ... The National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale, Arabic: Jabhah al-Taḩrīr al-Waţanī) is a socialist political party in Algeria. ... Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Algerian political parties | Liberal parties ...


APW (Popular Wilaya Assembly) Results

Full results are not available; only the following information is provided here:

Party Votes Share of Vote Councils Seats
FIS 4,520,668 57.4% 31* 1,031
FLN 2,166,887 27.5% 6 667
RCD 1 55
PNSD 0 8
Other parties 0 13
Independents 1 99
Total 7,877,000 100%

* 9 councils with no overall control The Islamic Salvation Front (تحرير الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ) (French: Front Islamique du Salut) is an outlawed Islamist political party in Algeria. ... The National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale, Arabic: Jabhah al-Taḩrīr al-Waţanī) is a socialist political party in Algeria. ... Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Algerian political parties | Liberal parties ...


Turnout: 8,238,921 (64.2%) Valid votes cast: 7,877,000 (61.3%)


Bibliography

  • Jacques Fontaine, 'Les elections locales Algériennes du 12 Juin 1990: approche statistique et géographique'. Maghreb-Machrek, no. 129 (Juillet-Septembre 1990)
  • Keith Sutton, Ahmed Aghrout, & Salah Zaimche, 'Political changes in Algeria: an emerging electoral geography', Maghreb Review, vol. 17, nos. 1-2 (1992).

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NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Elections in Algeria (217 words)
Elections in Algeria gives information on election and election results in Algeria.
An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office.
It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Beyond violence (1207 words)
FIS won 55 per cent of the vote in local elections in 1990 and was poised to win the 1991 general elections, dubbed the year of the botched elections.
Algerians who struggled for so long for their liberty deeply resented the limits the military's harsh rules put on their hard- won freedom.
Algerian authorities say they want to end judicial proceedings against those who voluntarily surrender and hand in their weapons and Islamists not directly implicated in the violence.
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