2006 Tajik presidential election
6 November 2006
Turnout90.90%
 
Nominee Emomali Rahmonov Olimzhon Boboyev
Party PDP PERT
Popular vote 2,419,192 190,138
Percentage 80.34% 6.31%
President before election

Emomali Rahmonov
PDP

 Elected President

Emomali Rahmonov
PDP

Presidential elections were held in Tajikistan on 6 November 2006.[1] The result was a victory for incumbent President Emomali Rahmonov, who won a third term in office after receiving 80% of the vote.[2]

Candidates

Five candidates contested the elections:

The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, the Democratic Party, and the Social Democratic Party all boycotted the elections, criticising the country's electoral apparatus as unreliable and refusing to accept the constitutional changes that allowed Rakhmanov to seek a third term.

Campaign

A rally by opposition parties was broken up.[3] According to the BBC,[4] none of the four candidates opposing Rahmonov have publicly criticised him, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has said that "[n]o signs of a competitive campaign have been observed thus far".[5]

Conduct

CIS election monitors declared the elections "legal, free and transparent", while the OSCE condemned them, and the election has been called "flawed and unfair but peaceful."[6]

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Emomali RahmonovPeople's Democratic Party2,419,19280.34
Olimzhon BoboyevParty of Economic Reforms190,1386.31
Ismoil TalbakovCommunist Party159,4935.30
Amir QaroqulovAgrarian Party156,9915.21
Abduhalim GhafforovSocialist Party85,2952.83
Total3,011,109100.00
Valid votes3,011,10998.70
Invalid/blank votes39,5291.30
Total votes3,050,638100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,356,22190.90
Source: OCSE

References

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