Algerian National Assembly elections, 1991

Algerian legislative election, 1991

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26 December 1991

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Only elections for 231 of the 430 seats to the People's National Assembly were completed
216 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Abdelkader Hachani	Chadli Bendjedid	Hocine Aït Ahmed
Party	Islamic Salvation Front	FLN	Socialist Forces Front
Last election		295	0
Seats won	188	15	25
Seat change	188	280	25
Popular vote	3,260,222	1,612,947	510,661
Percentage	47.3%	23.4%	7.4%
Swing	47.3%	76.6%	7.4%

Prime Minister before election

Sid Ahmed Ghozali
FLN

Elected Prime Minister

Sid Ahmed Ghozali
FLN

Parliamentary elections were held in Algeria on 26 December 1991. The first multi-party elections since independence, they were cancelled by a military coup after the first round, triggering the Algerian Civil War, after the military expressed concerns that the Islamic Salvation Front, which was almost certain to win more than the two-thirds majority of seats required to change the constitution, would democratically form an Islamic state. Of 430 seats contested, 231 were won outright with 50% or more of the ballot; the remaining 199 would have proceeded to a second ballot contested only by the two candidates with the highest number of votes. Voter turnout was 59.0%.

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