General elections were held in

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on 23 March 1990 to elect the

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and

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. They were the first elections to be contested under the amended

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of 1987, which established an elected

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and abolished the

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. They were also the first ever elections in the country to be contested on a single roll, with no separate voting for

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and blacks. In the presidential contest, incumbent

Robert Mugabe Robert Gabriel Mugabe (; ; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the ...

secured his first full term; he had become President following the 1987 constitutional amendments after serving as

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since the country gained internationally recognised independence in 1980. Mugabe's

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party won 117 of the 120 elected seats in Parliament.Elections in Zimbabwe
African Elections Database

Results

President

Parliament

A total of 4,799,324 voters were registered, but 576,432 were in uncontested constituencies.

References

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