Parliamentary elections were held in

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

on 12 November 1995, with a second round on 26 November.Azerbaijan: Parliamentary Chamber: Milli Mejlis: Elections held in 1995
Inter-Parliamentary Union However, the results in 15 constituencies were declared invalid due to fraud, with fresh elections held on 4 February 1996. The elections were characterized by substantial irregularities. In the lead-up to the elections, the authoritarian regime of

Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev (10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Soviet party boss in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1982, and the third president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to ...

(who headed the

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) banned

Musavat The Müsavat Party (, from ''musāwāt'', ) is the oldest existing political party in Azerbaijan. Its history can be divided into three periods: Early Musavat, Musavat-in-exile and New Musavat. The party was prohibited from contesting the 1995 ...

, the major opposition party from being on the ballot. The government alleged that Musavat had falsified 5,000 signatures to be on the ballot. By election day eight parties were on the ballot, five of which were pro-government parties. 60% of candidates in single-member constituencies had been removed from the ballot. Election monitors noted that there was

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. The final result was a victory for the

, which won 53 of the 125 seats in the

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. Voter turnout was 86%. Under the electoral law introduced prior to the election, 100 of the seats in parliament were elected in single-member districts while the remaining 25 were elected by party list proportional representation.

Results

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