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Georgia (Presidential)
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ELECTION TYPE |
DATE |
| Georgia |
Presidential |
April 9, 2000 |
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 election for president:
- 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 presidential 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)
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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) |
| For additional information:
IFES ElectionGuide Online |
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