1999 Tajik presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Tajikistan on 6 November 1999. They were won by the incumbent, Emomalii Rahmon, who took 97.6% of the vote. The opposition, who had demanded the elections be postponed, and planned to boycott them (but reversed their decision a few hours before voting began), described the result as illegal. Foreign observers were also critical of the elections, particularly regarding the issues of candidate registration, media access and voting irregulatities, including multiple voting.

Turnout was reported to be 98.9% of the 2,866,578 million registered voters.

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Emomalii Rahmon	People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan	2,749,908	97.6
Davlat Usmon	Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan	59,857	2.1
None of the above		7,051	0.3
Invalid/blank votes		18,774	–
Total		2,835,590	100
Source: Nohlen et al.