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Georgia (Presidential)
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ELECTION TYPE |
DATE |
| Georgia |
Presidential |
April 9, 2000
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At
stake in this election:
- Office
of president of Georgia
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Description
of government structure:
- Georgia has a unicameral Supreme Council (Umaghiesi Sabcho)
with 235 seats.
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Description
of electoral system:
- The president is popularly elected to a five-year term.
- Supreme Council members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year
terms; 85 members are elected by a plurality system and 150 by a proportional
representation party-list system with a 7% threshold to gain parliamentary
seats. Under both systems, at least 50% of the registered electors in
each constituency must have voted for the election to be deemed valid,
otherwise the election is repeated. If no candidate obtains least 33%
of the vote within the plurality system, a runoff is held between the
top two candidates.
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Results of the
presidential election:
- Presidential Candidate: Eduard SHEVARDNADZE
Party: Citizen's Union of Georgia (CUG)
Votes Received: 1,870,311
Percentage of Votes Received: 78.82%
- Presidential Candidate: Jumber PATIASHVILI
Party: Independent Candidate
Votes Received: 390,486
Percentage of Votes Received: 16.66%
- Presidential Candidate: Kartlos GHARIBASHVILI
Party: Georgian Corporation of Lawyers
Votes Received: 7,863
Percentage of Votes Received: .34%
- Presidential Candidate: Avtandil DJOGLIDZE
Party: Georgian National Holy Movement 'New Word'
Votes Received: 5,942
Percentage of Votes Received: .25%
- Presidential Candidate: Vazha ZHGENTI
Party: Progressive Party
Votes Received: 3,363
Percentage of Votes Received: .14%
- Presidential Candidate: Tengiz ASANIDZE
Party: Independent Candidate
Votes Received: 2,793
Percentage of Votes Received: .12%
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When was the last election?
- Presidential elections last held: November 5, 1995
- President SHEVARDNADZE received 74% of the vote, thereby defeating
Jumber PATIASHVILI who received 17%.
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Population and number of registered voters:
- Population: 5,066,499 (July 1999 estimate)
- Number of registered voters: 2,882,646 (1999) 1999)
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Of interest:
- Fourteen of the twenty-five opposition parties formed an alliance,
The Georgian Center for Democracy and Freedom, aimed at preventing the
April elections in Georgia. The Center tried to pressure the Georgian
leadership to postpone the elections until November, believing that
was the date stipulated by the constitution. The delay would have allowed
for the revision of the election law to equalize conditions for all
candidates, and to timeconduct an accurate census for new voter lists.
- Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, a grandson of Josef Stalin was barred from
running in the Georgian elections on the grounds that he is a citizen
of Russia, not of Georgia. Dzhugashvili also ran unsuccessfully in Russia's
December parliamentary elections.
- Following three years of middling economic performance and deteriorating
social conditions, voter dissatisfaction with the current leadership
was expected to figure heavily in the elections.
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SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR
ELECTION SYSTEMS (IFES)
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