Uzbekistani presidential election, 2016

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Turnout

87.73%


Nominee	Shavkat Mirziyoyev	Khatamjon Ketmonov
Party	Liberal Democratic	PDPU
Popular vote	15,906,724	669,187
Percentage	88.61%	3.73%


Nominee	Narimon Umarov	Sarvar Otamuradov
Party	Adolat	Milliy Tiklanish
Popular vote	619,972	421,055
Percentage	3.46%	2.35%

President before election

Shavkat Mirziyoyev (Interim)
Liberal Democratic

Elected President

Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Liberal Democratic

Shavkat Mirziyoyev (Interim)
Liberal Democratic

Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Liberal Democratic

Presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan on 4 December 2016 following the death of incumbent President Islam Karimov on 2 September. The constitution mandated that the election be held within three months of Karimov's death. Interim President Shavkat Mirziyoyev won the elections with 88.6% of the vote. The election was described by the Economist as a sham, and by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe as lacking "a genuine choice".

According to article 96 of the constitution, when a president is incapacitated or dies in office, the Chairman of the Senate (Nigmatilla Yuldashev at the time of Karimov's death) should take over as acting President, before an election is held within three months. In the event, however, Yuldashev stood aside, and parliament on 8 September voted unanimously to appoint Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as interim President.

This extra-constitutional measure was made with the support of regional clans, who feared that a power struggle between the country's elites would cause instability, and so decided to support Mirziyoyev, who had been Prime Minister since 2003. According to Reuters, Mirziyoyev's negotiations with the clans to secure the presidential nomination included a promise to share power with Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov and national security chief Rustam Inoyatov.

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