ELECTIONS HELD IN 1989
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| Assemblée nationale populaire | |
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| 28 May 1989 | |
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| Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament. General Elections had previously been held in August 1983 and the members' 5-year term of office had been extended by nine months. | |
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| In November 1987, President of the Republic Didier Ratsiraka announced that parliamentary elections, normally due in 1988, would be postponed by one year so as to be held concurrently with the presidential poll for political and economic reasons. In August 1988, the parliamentary term was formally extended by nine months.
In March 1989, President Ratsiraka, in power since 1975, was re-elected for another seven-year term. He was sworn in on 20 April and reappointed an unchanged Cabinet. In early May, the opposition Alliance démocratique de Madagascar (ADM) – comprising the MFM, VONJY and MONIMA parties – threatened to boycott the legislative elections if the Electoral Law were not amended to prevent vote fraud. Only 47 incumbents were in the running for the 137 Assembly seats. On polling day, the ruling Avant-garde de la révolution malgache (AREMA) – the leading group in the Front national pour la défense de la révolution socialiste malgache (FNDR) – maintained its dominant position, increasing its Assembly total by three to 120; the allied AKFM-KDRSM won two. |
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STATISTICS
| Round no 1 (28 May 1989): Elections results | |
| Number of registered electors | 5,741,974 |
| Voters | 74.6% |
| Valid votes | 4,167,358 |
| Round no 1: Distribution of votes | |||
| Political Group | Votes | ||
| Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution (AREMA) | 2,785,448 | ||
| Movement for Proletarian Power (MFM/MFT) | 460,268 | ||
| Popular Movement for National Unity (VONJY/VITM) | 404,959 | ||
| Congress Party for Malagasy Independence (AKFM/KDRSM) | 256,255 | ||
| AKFM/Renewal | 175,824 | ||
| National Movement for the Independence of Madagascar (MONIMA) | 66,627 | ||
| Malagasy Christian Democratic Union (UDECMA) | 17,974 | ||
| Round no 1: Distribution of seats | |||
| Political Group | Total | ||
| Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution (AREMA) | 120 | ||
| Movement for Proletarian Power (MFM/MFT) | 7 | ||
| Popular Movement for National Unity (VONJY/VITM) | 4 | ||
| Congress Party for Malagasy Independence (AKFM/KDRSM) | 2 | ||
| AKFM/Renewal | 3 | ||
| National Movement for the Independence of Madagascar (MONIMA) | 1 | ||
| Malagasy Christian Democratic Union (UDECMA) | 0 | ||
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